Illustration: Pedro Nekoi No one has done more to propagate the myth of the hero cop than the writers of network-television police procedurals. On Law & Order and its many, many offspring, you might occasionally see a stray bad apple, but they never spoil the barrel, and cops who break the rules are most often portrayed as crusaders for a greater good. Here, confessions from the writers, directors, and producers of these shows.
When I produce an episode, sometimes things get fucked with. I’ll advocate for a mixed crowd in a protest scene and the showrunner will say, “No make them mostly Black.” And it’s not just protests. It could be a mostly Black crowd at a concert where there’s a shooting, which is just yet another image associating Black people with violence.
Fifteen years ago, when I started doing this work, there was an unwritten rule when you were doing research for shows that you didn’t do Black shows. What I mean is, we didn’t write shows with Black victims. Of course, no one had any problem if the murderer was Black or a person of color. But people were more open in saying not to bother researching a story about a kid who gets gunned down in Chicago, or a young woman who was killed by her pimp. We were told: “Remember your demographic.
A Writer-Producer on “a Conservative Cop Show” On our show, we reinforce the idea that police are good so that the world is exactly the way the people in our audience want to believe it is. We all know who our audience is, so we rationalize it because this is our job. Even if we know it’s wrong.
lilapearl Like a bootlicking propagandist! These shows were disgusting before and after recent protests. Hero cops on TV while countless languishing in prisons on minor drug offenses that Dems peddled in the 90s. It's disgusting
lilapearl Who is Dick Wolf?!?
CopCrime lilapearl I’ll take no slander of Southland, True Detectives, and Bosch.
lilapearl Myth?
lilapearl We need to start Antifa shows. Smashing, rioting, and destroying history will make for great plots.
lilapearl True
lilapearl How about those that propagate thuglife ?
lilapearl Probably pretty awesome
lilapearl ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼
lilapearl Then you have The Wire
lilapearl So....cops aren't heroes. Gotcha.
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