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Blood is in the water...

   

Just like how westerns and World War 2 fiction petered out over time. And that's exactly what they were, pure fiction for the most part that completely distorted in the public mind what really happened in those days. These kinds of TV and films centered around the police are exactly the same in the way they create dumb myths among the population anyway so it's probably time for that genre to finally go extinct as well. Only wish it had happened back when the bastards had three or four of those goddamn awful CSI shows on the air at the same time.

   

Not a big supporter of the cops shows. They had their place. I miss America's most wanted and the Sheriff with the world whitest teeth (can't remember the name of the show just now). That said there is a podcasts that exposes a great deal of the rot that is the show cops Running from COPS

I know that when it 1st came out it was well intention show but what it turned into was a rabid dog that needed to be put down. Long overdue. That said the pendulum has shifted, how far remains to be seen but I can't see any cop movies being green lit for a while.

   

Other than 'Cops', I think the last police drama I watched was NYPD Blue.

Nothing else seemed worth my time. I saw that CSI show when it was called 'Qunicy'. No need to watch it again.

   

I watch the "First 48" and from time to time "Live PD"

   

The only cop show I watch is The Wire (I’m on season four of five). The rest of them I just find to be played out and repetitive. If there’s a few years where there aren’t cop shows on tv, it can only be for the best.

   

...to pre-program the sheeple into walking straight into an anarcho-capitalist private security market of hell.

Maybe it is time to re-read the old Heinlein novels.






"Grandpa, you used to pay for police services through your taxes??? No wonder the world went broke! What were you all expecting?? "

   

   

The HBO cop shows like The Wire are how they should be done because they don't shy away from what afflicts the police forces - internal discipline problems, higher-up staff officers jockeying for career advancement, and non-stop interference from city/county politicians. The rest are just sheer fantasy, with less realistic stories than Star Trek.

   

   

Maybe SWAT will one day show, in it's last episode maybe, the troops heroically kicking down a door during a marijuana bust and tossing a flashbang grenade into a baby's crib, just like happens in real life. Nah, not in the cast's contracts to get anywhere near reality.

   

"The IT Crowd"

   

Why not the exciting daily lives of Librarians?

   

We can't handle that kind of television.

   

Next thing you know, kids would be learning the Dewey Decimal system, then where would we be?

   

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