Cops Are Always the Main Characters

Not just on Law & Order. Photo: Universal Tv/Kobal/Shutterstock/Universal Tv/Kobal/Shutterstock At 8 p.m. on Saturday, at the same time CNN, MSNBC, and FOX News were airing live coverage of the nationwide protests against police violence, cable audiences also had other options for what to watch. On PopTV, there was a marathon of NCIS: New Orleans. On WE, Criminal Minds. On WGN, Blue Bloods. On Ion, Law & Order: SVU.

TV has long had a police’s-eye perspective that helps shape the way viewers see the world, prioritizing the victories and struggles of police over communities being policed. Order, a police imposed status quo, is good; disruption is bad.

To chart just one arm of the boom: Dick Wolf, perhaps the most successful single force behind the current state of the TV police procedural, began as a writer on cop shows Hill Street Blues and Miami Vice. Wolf has gone on to create Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: Trial by Jury, Law & Order: Los Angeles, New York Undercover, Chicago PD, Chicago Justice, FBI, and FBI: Most Wanted.

Very few cop shows have actively worked against that pull to put police at the center, although there are a few examples. A show like Orange Is the New Black is radical in how it takes that viewpoint and flips it, turning prisoners into the focus characters rather than their prison guards. The Wire puts its police inside a huge community network, and it spends as much time with citizens as it does the cops who police them.

kvanaren Not typically the case in British tv where the police are always present in positive and negative ways.

kvanaren That's real. They show all the fake shit. But not the lying in police reports, when cops forget to read miranda rights, the excessive racial profiling, the excessive violence. Times cops ask brown americans if they speak english. And all the police brutality.

kvanaren FFS

kvanaren Especially not SVU.....

kvanaren Law and order really wasn’t apart of the problem though.......

kvanaren The Wire is, of course, an exception—Seasons 3&4 especially

kvanaren One of the most pro-police brutality and racist series on tv is Blue Bloods. It's a mouthpiece of the Police Benevolent Association. BlueBloods

kvanaren FINALLEVEL This is an interesting take. Do you think this is true that you are contributing to the problem?

kvanaren You think?

kvanaren Market forces. Something you socialists do not understand.

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