After finding myself locked up on the 6th floor of the 'ACDC' (Atlanta Correction & Detention Center) in downtown Atlanta, I was watching TV with all the 'brothers' in the bullpen. Just so happened a "Cops: Atlanta" episode came on! Those brothers knew all of the cops by street given nicknames and commentated on the whole episode as if it were a play-by-play MMA event. It was like "Cops: In 4D". Best TV ever thanks to those cats. Absolutely surreal.
A good friend of mine is a Sergeant for the Metro Nashville Police Department and COPS came to Nashville to film a few episodes and she told me that it takes over a month to film a 30 minute episode. They also pick officers that tend to get into a lot of incidents.
I'll never forget the guy who huffed spray paint and while clearly high as a kite and with his face covered in silver paint told the cops that it was just silver lipstick (an early season). I nearly died laughing.
So what you're saying is that we could've avoided this whole abomination called "reality TV" if only someone would've paid the writers what they wanted. Ohh the irony 😭
for a bunch of greedy bastards with so much money coming out of their sphincters, you'd think they WEREN'T made of money when denying the writers' well-deserved royalty checks.
While I agree that IS most of the job, they have to be ready for the worst. It really depends where you are a cop. I'm guessing your friend is far from the cities.
@@vipergtsmre What cities do you have to where COPS would be representative of your city? If your city has that much crime, do you wear a bulletproof vest daily?
Basically what my sister reported after her law enforcement career, except she added that once you get to the detective level, you basically need to play politics, which is why she retired.
Almost everything is staged. I remember I had to do a bit for a local news segment. It was supposed to be a heartwarming puff piece. And even just the shot of me walking through my door that they wanted to put on TV took like five tries for them to get all the angles they wanted lmao And then I had to pose all mournfully looking out my window looking sad even though I wasn't the least bit sad. I'm convinced the only thing on TV that isn't staged is when the news goes to some riot lol
Why did you need to "learn" how unreal it is! I knew it the minute it aired... Logic told me from the first nanosecond of this crap, there a big fuck camera crew plus it's on TV duh it's fake nonsense!!
Agreed.. yet cops is not one of those.. how do you expect all these cops and suspects to be “paid actors” with scripts and retakes?? They just happen to find new amazing actors each episode to play the suspects? Very interesting. There must be a lot of crickets in your skull. Not a lot going on up there.
I was actually told by a Greensboro police officer that the City Of Greensboro refused cops to come film in our city because of the bad reputation they actually were given the cops.
whether a department getting featured on "cops" would benefit or harm its reputation all depends on the starting point, I suppose. maybe if you're greensboro PD you don't want to be on "cops", but you probably do if you're aurora PD.
My husbands step-mother was arrested on an episode of Cops. We get a kick out of watching that episode,lol. While there were issues with the TV show it helped get myhusbands youngest sibling away from a crack addicted mother and into a stable home with an Aunt that raised him with love and got him the help he needed from being born addicted. So our family is thankful for the show COPS.
@@tylermassaro4266 because she was arrested on national tv. His family was able to show the court she had not cleaned up and they were finally able to get little man away from her and where he needed to be to thrive and grow into an amazing man.
@@jakeboehm5267 out of family respect I won’t give that info out. But to add step mother never got better she died a drug addict. Her son is amazing and truth from the heart if she had not been caught on the tv show cops I doubt my young brother in law would be where he is now.
I was always more of a fan of Rescue 911 than Cops. Cops often showed the worst humanity had to offer whereas Rescue 911 often showed some of the best.
I much prefer Reno 911 on Comedy Central. Granted, I never watched it religiously, but on few occasions I came across it while waiting for another CC show to pop, it seemed rather on-point in describing how idiotic the US police forces are as a whole. Plus, Ryan Styles was on there a couple of times, and I absolutely love his improv work on Who's Line Is It Anyways.
I’m more a Live PD fan because the police seemed more about maintaining the peace than catching criminals. During several episodes, I honestly felt bad for the police officers because of the people they had to deal with.
Lol until that debacle in round rock Texas, now that sheriff is a disgrace. Got arrested in Austin and his county. Plus I watched them push people to get content, those shows violate so much rights.
It's horrible the way they come down on Police.Police do sooo much more than just arrest Criminals . They go out of their way to help people, Ex. Like the old Lady whose cat is stuck in a tree or the dog found in a drainage hole. Who are we suppose to call when you see someone breaking into your car, or attacking someone in front of your house? Pelosi? Harris?
Hold up, sold for only 2,500?! That in itself, is criminal. Inner Circle should've made him pay with three extra zeroes, they were played into accepting that amount. The narrator's voice is especially fitting for this one since it sounds just like the Cops narrator.
Gotta remember the power of the dollar with different back then granted it's only about 6k when adjusted for inflation. the people who put the show out had no clue that it was going to take off like it did so they got one helluva deal. Inner Circle should've held out for more money or only licensed the song for x amount of time. Their own fault for that.
@@yoursafeplace8476 I agree with you completely, but it would be nice for the production company to give them a little extra now (or when the show started taking off). Of course, they aren't obligated to... Dude bought the rights after all. And, I guess, it got Inner Circle some popularity and possibly gigs.
I loved it. Heck I remember being a kid so excited to see the episode where one dude showed up on COPS and America's Most Wanted in the same day. It was cool seeing their reenactment transition to the COPS crew film. Miss those days...I'll never know which episodes that were connected however. It was a black suspect who had taken a blue car. He was finally captured after so long. I wish i knew so i could see for side by side comparisons again.
I knew a guy who once worked as a homicide detective. According to him the most accurate portrayal of a detective squad he ever saw on TV: Barney Miller.
Pimp My Ride, Cribs, Cops... Weird History has been waging war against "reality" TV lately and I am LOVING IT! ...especially when it comes to Cops and Pimp My Ride. Reality TV is bad enough but if it's just a bunch of attention-whores acting like brats or some skill/talent competition, it's not harming anyone. But if the show starts screwing people over like Pimp My Ride or affecting the lives of involuntary participants like with Cops, that's a problem. And the only show called COPS that matters to me was that old cartoon with Longarm and B.P. Vest.
i miss the old days of Mythbusters and Dirty Jobs, though. no violence, no excess in wealth, just human beings doing awesome stuff that keeps the world spinning. and blowing shit up WHILE cleaning said shit up afterwards, lol
I was riding my bike late one night on front beach road in Panama city beach one night, coming from a friends, alot of the businesses will leave their outdoor audio systems on during the season, and i had a huge bag of weed and other paraphernalia in my pocket, i passed a closed bar with a cop sitting in the park lot, now i was fine, nothing to really worry about, but i swear the cops theme song was on that sound system and i could barely keep a straight face.
you think that is bad. my and my cousin got high as hell one night & stopped buy a store & to get 2 bag's of chips & drinks. i went up to pay then i turned around & there was a cop standing there. i walked be by this cop high as hell. i got back to my cousin's truck there was my cousin laughing has ass off..
They should have made a 40 min show where the cops stand outside an active school shooting and do nothing but arrest panicked parents that try to help their children
@@chickencharlie1992 sadly I would have expected that during a time when their popularity and trust is at a low point they would rush to the rescue in a situation where no one would be angry they shoot the F out of the shooter
ironically that theme song is about cops murdering ppl on job I highly recommend you research the original intent lol full song I found the show beter due to this real giga Chad fact
NOT going to lie, I was a single parent in the 90's, and let my Jr. High school aged children watch COPS. I'd use that to showcase how being dumb or a criminal gets you arrested. It worked.
When it comes to police, we are known for our world-famous traffic ladies. Not every intersection has lights in our city, so we recruit women instead of stand in the middle of intersections to control traffic and stop cars when they're breaking the law.
I grew up in Portland where the show started, and lived on the street called out in the call, on Cully and Killingsworth. Absolutely terrifying, so much crack and crime. Edit apparently local lore is the it started in Portland but it was actually Florida. My whole life… , I am pretty gullible.
Killingsworth _still_ trying to keep it dirty. Because it's an industrial/trucking services area, it will win it's NoPo war against ever cleaning up. But damned if you can afford to live on the streets our parents _used_ to tell us to stay away from these days. Most of you couldn't afford to live on SE Division, N Mississippi, or much of the inner East Side today. It's the Portlandia turf. And Rockwood still puts most of 80's/90's east LA to shame. The King of sketchy hoods you never heard about.
@@shawnmartin95358 holy moly! You know, local legend has it. Shit, lol. There was a local sheriff who got a lot of tv time and many episodes are from there and then my street called out I have believed that my whole life. Geez! Thanks for the correction and info, I googled it. Thanks 🙏🏻
A gas satation I used to frequent in Santa Cruz, CA was the location of a police shooting. The suspect didn't shoot, only made a what the thought was a move toward a gun. A cop or two shot immediately followed by a hail of gunfire by every other cop on scene. There were over a hundred bulletholes in the gas station. Luckily the clerk had seen the situation before it erupted and got herself and the customers down to the floor. The whole place was riddled, exterior and interior. Now when I see cops with guns out I get the hell out of Dodge.
i was very young, probably 3/4 years old, i would dance around the living room with my stuffed bunny singing along and jammin' (HARD) to the theme song every time i heard it come on the tv! lol.
1989: cops premiered and made us root for police 1991: we became suspicious about the LAPD 2020: half of us rallied around police in defense of good cops. 2022: Uvalde happened and now we give up.
There was a joke about the "Cops" theme song "Bad Boys" by "Inner Circle": You heard it once on the radio in the late 80s, and countless thousands of time on TV every time a "Cops" episode came on throughout the 90s, 00s, and 10s for the past 30 years!
@matt OM..F-ing...G, man. I can't believe this! I wrote the joke in my original comment. Here it is. in parenthesis. Start of joke (You heard it once on the radio in the late 80s, and countless thousands of time on TV(television) every time a "Cops" episode came on throughout the 90s, 00s, and 10s for the past 30 years!) End of joke
I will recommend a podcast titled “Headlong: Running from Cops” that came out in 2019. It was seven or more episodes that focused on this TV show. It was an eye opener for me. Examined the behind the scenes practices of the producers and cops involved with the series, exposing what occurred in their quest for a hit show with big ratings. Well researched and produced podcast.
In spite of how COPS portrayed "policing" and criminals etc it was, with a heap of irony, actually really popular amongst the folks who found themselves on the non-police side of the system. Now, most of the time they would be rooting for the folks to get away from the police, but back in the days when it was more popular and came on more often (mid to late 90's) I rarely ran into someone who wouldn't stop and watch an episode if they were flipping through the channels and came across one - plus they were half-hour shows with 5-10 min segments and so it wasn't a huge time investment. I can remember plenty of evenings with whole rooms of people "Ooooooh-ing" when someone got tackled or a car wrecked etc. It was exploitative an unrealistic to the max and everyone knew it, but there was still a certain thrill to it - like rubber-necking past an accident or even worse (?) shows like Jerry Springer that were also on tv around the same time. And *everyone* recognized and could sing the song. That really stinks though about the royalty situation. When they mentioned about it being licensed I was thinking those guys should be set for life with as many times as that show used to air on some channels - until the video mentioned they sold off the rights for $2,500... which is horrendous. They'd be millionaires many times over had they held onto the rights and just continued licensing the song. But they probably were in a difficult financial situation and the lawyers from cops must have sweet-talked them into it to get the band to think that the show wouldn't be around long enough and that they'd be better off to just cash it on the rights while they could. But that's just about criminal how low-balled they were on the actual amount the band received - the guy that bought the rights knew damn well what he was doing when he offered them only $2,500. Honestly, if the show hadn't been able to get the rights they probably would have had to have dropped the song and paid someone else to write them a new theme for a flat fee because even having to pay just a tiny amount per airing would have run up a fortune in licensing fees over all these years. All the same, those guys should have come out better...
I seen a guy I grew up with on the show and thought, naahhhh.... that's not Andre. Then the cop said, "Andre, why you run from us?" Andre said, "why you chasing me?" I was like, yeah... that's him.
I live in Spokane and I was looking up something in our local legislation that had rules regarding police reality tv because so much of the show is filmed in Spokane lol
Even as a 9 yr old I understood that COPS was basically only showing the highlights of everything they filmed. From memory, most of the calls they responded to on the show were disturbing the peace or domestic disputes and homes or businesses.
Cops was my little brothers FAVORITE show 😅 oddly enough he’s in jail right now I’m not really sure what for our dad just sent me a message telling me and asking if I’d call him 😅
Cops taught me a few lessons. Never smoke or drink in or before driving, and make sure your vehicle has everything working properly and keep up with insurance and registration. I swear 90% of the show is "I smell alcohol/weed" or your licence/registration/insurance is invalid" or your license plate light is out
Thank you Casey. My cousin and her husband visited New Zealand 🇳🇿 before the pandemic. They loved it and brought me some pretty gifts. Connie, United States 🇺🇸
Doubt it's in New Zealand 🇳🇿 Although i'm watching this video from Australia 🇦🇺 where we have our own version of that show called " Northern Territory Cops " 👮♂️ 👮♀️🐊🥷 . ♑️✍️🇦🇺🇳🇴
@@dongross6624 You are most welcome! You're welcome to come over for a visit too, our borders are open and life is more or less back to normal. Best wishes to you and yours. 😊
World's Wildest Police Videos was another "reality" show that had a ton of bells and whistles added to it. I always wondered why the news anchor reporting from the chopper that followed suspects sounded the same no matter what city or town it was all going down in. Then it hit me that it was all edited in later with corny sound effects.
And the host of that show, John Bunnell, first became somewhat famous for being featured on episodes of Cops, when they were almost always in Broward Co Florida.
I worked for my Brother in his law office, he is very adamant about reading everything before you sign. Yea, it's common sense, but most people don't do it, and then they get mad when, fill in the blank.
Cops inspired a rip off show in my city ( Montgomery, Alabama), called Cops in Montgomery , later shortened to MPD. They used " Life in the Fastlane " by the Eagles as its theme, and most of the episodes were traffic violations, weed possession, disturbing the peace and police picnics LOL
I remember this strike well! I went to a Star Trek script writing seminar in SF to learn about expanding my writing. ( I'm such a Trekkie!) I still have a very good script, though dated, I may send to Ron Moore just for a kick, and to keep my promise to showcase what lead to the reasons why Counsellor Troi is so dysfunctional. 😆 They were desperate, I guess. Interesting times.
Yea..I guess we can say Star Trek was exaggerated too. After all , our space shuttles never encounter Aliens etc ...Geez,,,This world is going crazy. A show is a show. You don't like it .. change the channel. Right?
I am not sure what to think of Cops, it has always seemed rather shady to me but I never really watched much of it. I would never sign a waiver to be on that show. Excellent video, very interesting and helpful.
I've had a few run ins with reality TV. I was on an episode of cops and almost appeared on the hungry investors ( I was employed at not one but BOTH of the restaurants in one particular episode) crazy how small the world is
While they were in Spokane I had a friend who was a cop that they were doing a follow-up interview after a call when on the radio there was a pursuit in progress. You could hear the sirens in the distance getting closer. He was calmly talking about it then he said they are coming this way. Yes, they did because they sped past them during the interview still filming the whole thing with cop cars right behind them. They lost control and were captured. It was a stolen car. He walks over to them in the car and calmly talks to them just saying to them it wasn't a good decision for them to do the crime and they filmed it all. They stayed in Spokane if I remember right, for four days and they got their fill.
The earlier seasons of Cops were the best. Great program. I remember the episode of "Everybody Loves Raymond" where Ray's watching "Cops" with his brother Robert the NY police officer. Ray criticizes "Cops" so Robert asks him to go on a ride along. Ray finds out how it's like to be a cop and that his brother is braver than he thought. One of the funniest progams ever.
Yeah, they showed murders and shit...I had a VHS called COPS 'Gone wild' or something like that...it had some stock footage of Mardi Gras and a few naked 80's girls in it lol...but i remember every every episode on it was bloody as hell..the last one though, showed a dead baby in a crib (I can't remember if the cameraman was careful and only filmed the top portion of the crib where it was covered in blood, or he filmed it straight on and they blurred it. (They didn't blurred anything else in the whole VHS tape though...) I never watched that last one again, I just wanted to see tiddies and bad guys get blown away, not dead babies...
As a former cop this show was a comedy as far as I was concerned. The paperwork was such a joke I spent most of my time giving warnings. Confiscate and be on your way or arrest and do hours of brain damaging amounts of reports.
Trash T.V & Media, I love how people put down shows like Jerry Springer but refuse to acknowledge today's mess. Teen Mom, yeah, let's glorify teen pregnancy. Any reality show where idiots make fulls of themselves. This brought us to our present issue of social media influencers. Really sad.
It was the 1980's. The internet didn't exist to have an alternative source of fact checking. Only information available to anyone in the world were both TV and Newspapers. Both of which were controlled to sensationalize everything.
A great episode would have been the cops responding to that last school shooting. The show could have revealed how the cops formed a perimeter and did nothing for over 40 minutes until finally a border patrol agent had enough and went in to do their job.
@@ronblack7870 If I were running the department no. However, it does create a skewed perception that police can do no wrong and crime is out of control.
Fact: if you were to air a version of cops with an opposite perspective, one that showed what American policing is really about, its inner subculture, the good ol boy system, and the things they get away with, it would be a hundred times more popular than COPS ever was.
I was on an episode in Kansas City in the late 80's. I also know from some Kansas City cops that Cops producers at least in KC encouraged the person being detained/arrested to not cooperate.
Funny Cops story. I worked at a Burger King in Dallas. These 2 police officers said they were in a hurry to get home to watch Cops. I asked didn't you get enough of that on he job. One of them told me it was like getting on the job training. It made sense to me.
I seen a guy I grew up with on the show and thought, naahhhh.... that's not Andre. Then the cop said, "Andre, why you run from us?" Andre said, "why you chasing me?" I was like, yeah... that's him. This show also regularly featured Civil Rights violations, that we thought were normal and now through 1st amendment auditors, know are absolutely not ok.
That show destroyed the brain of many people in my generation and Gen X. It normalized constitutional violations by the State and portrayed those violating peoples rights as "heros"
I worked with a local access TV station as an eager 18 year old. They wanted to do a community-based “Cops”-type show. The cops absolutely loved the idea, with certain ones angling for screen time (and to bang the female camera ops) and others getting upset if their arrest didn’t make the edit. I thought it was great, went out to shoot for a couple of nights, nothing major. Then I sat down to edit the show and there was footage I hadn’t shot, or seen, of a domestic dispute, with people I knew. It was in that moment I realized that the idea of this show was nothing more than bootlicking cops and making normal folks with everyday problems look like felons and wild-eyed addicts. Thankfully, we produced 3 episodes that never aired. The theme song was “You’ve Got Another Thing Coming” by Judas Priest. I am mortified to admit this, but I’m hoping it’ll be cathartic for me. 😪
I was in my 20's when COPS first came out and watched that decade and the next decade and part of the next. I liked knowing my shows were coming up Saturday night because I really loved, America's Most Wanted!
My dad made me watch Cops when I was a little kid to show what happens when I am a bad person later on in life and one that I vividly remember was a guy being chased in his underwear then getting tazed halfway through after they caught him trying to break into his ex girlfriend's house.
Sadly your father didn't teach you 90% of those "bad" people in the system hurt no one and are only there because the State creates laws for the private prison industry to make profit.
I have had two encounters with "Reality Shows" in my life. I can tell you that so called reality shows are not. I'm sure "Cops" is similar to others. By the way, you did not include the story of how a "Cops" production member told a Police Officer to chase a suspect that resulted in killing an innocent civilian during a chase.
I am baffled that anyone would think, a 30 minute show is a reflection of anything. Who would be stupid enough to think that 30 minutes defined, police officers, criminals or humanity?
Seeing an episode from your home town was an experience. It's funny how editing and format can make El Paso, Texas look as gritty as a much larger city. But I remember those few episodes being pretty lame, and the focus of one was the same cops picking up the same cross dressing hooker downtown twice in the same night.
After finding myself locked up on the 6th floor of the 'ACDC' (Atlanta Correction & Detention Center) in downtown Atlanta, I was watching TV with all the 'brothers' in the bullpen. Just so happened a "Cops: Atlanta" episode came on! Those brothers knew all of the cops by street given nicknames and commentated on the whole episode as if it were a play-by-play MMA event. It was like "Cops: In 4D". Best TV ever thanks to those cats. Absolutely surreal.
Haha 😄 I'm a former correction officer those inmates knew how to pass the day
what the hell are you talking about??
@@jimmygrant424 I'm sorry.... Isn't English your first language?
@@jasminepina9058 that's you in your profile picture
@@quanbrooklynkid7776 chemical plant
A good friend of mine is a Sergeant for the Metro Nashville Police Department and COPS came to Nashville to film a few episodes and she told me that it takes over a month to film a 30 minute episode. They also pick officers that tend to get into a lot of incidents.
@Phillip Ramos that's what he said DUH
They're also happy to set up situations for content. Since cops don't have to serve or protect, they're basically cosplay actors anyway.
@@jimmygrant424 it’s just a confirmation by someone who dealt with it personally
Shocking
And???
I'll never forget the guy who huffed spray paint and while clearly high as a kite and with his face covered in silver paint told the cops that it was just silver lipstick (an early season). I nearly died laughing.
Didn’t he also die shortly after
@@mrtoad8585 No idea
They used this idea in the new mad max movie. Lol
Crazy hair walking in trailer park or something I remember a scene like that
I remember that one. It was in El Paso. I was living there at the time and thought that was amazing.
So what you're saying is that we could've avoided this whole abomination called "reality TV" if only someone would've paid the writers what they wanted. Ohh the irony 😭
*paid
It's a cruel world for sure lol
@@danettewelborn5577 Good bot 😁
Lolll this is too terrible 😳😂😮💨
for a bunch of greedy bastards with so much money coming out of their sphincters, you'd think they WEREN'T made of money when denying the writers' well-deserved royalty checks.
A good friend of mine is a police officer, and she said that more than anything, it's paperwork and driving.
And taxing non rich public.
While I agree that IS most of the job, they have to be ready for the worst. It really depends where you are a cop. I'm guessing your friend is far from the cities.
@@vipergtsmre We live in the city. In fact, she was shot at once. I'm just talking about the day-to-day.
@@vipergtsmre What cities do you have to where COPS would be representative of your city? If your city has that much crime, do you wear a bulletproof vest daily?
Basically what my sister reported after her law enforcement career, except she added that once you get to the detective level, you basically need to play politics, which is why she retired.
I reported on a "reality show" in the early days, and learned how unreal they often are.
Good report.
Almost everything is staged. I remember I had to do a bit for a local news segment. It was supposed to be a heartwarming puff piece. And even just the shot of me walking through my door that they wanted to put on TV took like five tries for them to get all the angles they wanted lmao And then I had to pose all mournfully looking out my window looking sad even though I wasn't the least bit sad.
I'm convinced the only thing on TV that isn't staged is when the news goes to some riot lol
Why did you need to "learn" how unreal it is!
I knew it the minute it aired... Logic told me from the first nanosecond of this crap, there a big fuck camera crew plus it's on TV duh it's fake nonsense!!
@@lj2265
LOL! The news is CERTAINLY staged quite often.
ofc unreal, its a television show btw, its just "semi-script", not a fully script.
Agreed.. yet cops is not one of those.. how do you expect all these cops and suspects to be “paid actors” with scripts and retakes?? They just happen to find new amazing actors each episode to play the suspects? Very interesting. There must be a lot of crickets in your skull. Not a lot going on up there.
Who in their right mind didn’t assume/know that only the entertaining parts made it on the show..
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Yeah, right
It would be like thinking that the Arkansas State Police use the PIT maneuver for every traffic stop.
@@the_mowron only over 100 mph my man you know that
Yup, of course they wanted their show to be entertaining, lol
I was actually told by a Greensboro police officer that the City Of Greensboro refused cops to come film in our city because of the bad reputation they actually were given the cops.
whether a department getting featured on "cops" would benefit or harm its reputation all depends on the starting point, I suppose. maybe if you're greensboro PD you don't want to be on "cops", but you probably do if you're aurora PD.
Sh*t cops never showed the bad apples so if he thinks the show is the problem he is mistaken
@@the_original_Bilb_Ono grammar cop
@@Ass_of_Amalek ha
No. Cops give themselves that reputation. Nobody needs to help them do that. Cops are disgusting.
My husbands step-mother was arrested on an episode of Cops. We get a kick out of watching that episode,lol.
While there were issues with the TV show it helped get myhusbands youngest sibling away from a crack addicted mother and into a stable home with an Aunt that raised him with love and got him the help he needed from being born addicted. So our family is thankful for the show COPS.
Was it the TV show that helped him, or the actual police?
@@tylermassaro4266 because she was arrested on national tv. His family was able to show the court she had not cleaned up and they were finally able to get little man away from her and where he needed to be to thrive and grow into an amazing man.
It's actually a sad story.
I’m glad to hear she’s doing better. I really don’t want to be disrespectful but do you remember the episode?
@@jakeboehm5267 out of family respect I won’t give that info out. But to add step mother never got better she died a drug addict. Her son is amazing and truth from the heart if she had not been caught on the tv show cops I doubt my young brother in law would be where he is now.
My Saturday night routine when my son was a toddler: COPS, then America's Most Wanted.
that was mine with my grandma
Me and my dad
I think that was Saturday night for a lot of folks. I miss those days.
World's wildest police videos with John Bunnell!
I remember that. I can take u way back , when on Sat nites were Different Strokes , Silver Spoons Love Boat , Fantasy Island.
I had a friend whose favorite line about COPS was:
_"It's always the guy with no shirt on"._
I was always more of a fan of Rescue 911 than Cops. Cops often showed the worst humanity had to offer whereas Rescue 911 often showed some of the best.
Yes that show was great
I much prefer Reno 911 on Comedy Central. Granted, I never watched it religiously, but on few occasions I came across it while waiting for another CC show to pop, it seemed rather on-point in describing how idiotic the US police forces are as a whole.
Plus, Ryan Styles was on there a couple of times, and I absolutely love his improv work on Who's Line Is It Anyways.
paramedic and firefighter shows are the shit.
I only watched it because it has William Shatner.
Cops is more fun to watch because it shows you reality, alot of shows like to block it and sugarcoat it and I think that's annoying and wrong
I’m more a Live PD fan because the police seemed more about maintaining the peace than catching criminals. During several episodes, I honestly felt bad for the police officers because of the people they had to deal with.
Cops have to deal w/so many assholes.
Live PD is scripted and fake
Lol until that debacle in round rock Texas, now that sheriff is a disgrace. Got arrested in Austin and his county. Plus I watched them push people to get content, those shows violate so much rights.
Not as bad as people having to deal with cops.
It's horrible the way they come down on Police.Police do sooo much more than just arrest Criminals . They go out of their way to help people, Ex. Like the old Lady whose cat is stuck in a tree or the dog found in a drainage hole. Who are we suppose to call when you see someone breaking into your car, or attacking someone in front of your house? Pelosi? Harris?
Hold up, sold for only 2,500?! That in itself, is criminal. Inner Circle should've made him pay with three extra zeroes, they were played into accepting that amount.
The narrator's voice is especially fitting for this one since it sounds just like the Cops narrator.
Gotta remember the power of the dollar with different back then granted it's only about 6k when adjusted for inflation. the people who put the show out had no clue that it was going to take off like it did so they got one helluva deal. Inner Circle should've held out for more money or only licensed the song for x amount of time. Their own fault for that.
@@yoursafeplace8476 I agree with you completely, but it would be nice for the production company to give them a little extra now (or when the show started taking off). Of course, they aren't obligated to... Dude bought the rights after all.
And, I guess, it got Inner Circle some popularity and possibly gigs.
It wasn’t a hit. I’m sure before the show, no one had ever heard of it, so they were glad to get whatever they could.
@@181cameron maybe you should go back to your life, and pay everybody a little bit more money if they’ve ever done anything for you.
I was actually just thinking about how much dough they made for this song being used for all these years. Man, they got fuckin robbed.
I loved it. Heck I remember being a kid so excited to see the episode where one dude showed up on COPS and America's Most Wanted in the same day. It was cool seeing their reenactment transition to the COPS crew film. Miss those days...I'll never know which episodes that were connected however. It was a black suspect who had taken a blue car. He was finally captured after so long. I wish i knew so i could see for side by side comparisons again.
I knew a guy who once worked as a homicide detective. According to him the most accurate portrayal of a detective squad he ever saw on TV: Barney Miller.
That was an excellent show.
A cop friend of mine said exactly the same thing!🤣
I think that has to be the 4th time I've heard somebody say that who is an ex cop in the RUclips comment section
Disagree. Southland is the most realistic show my former cop ass has ever seen.
The Wire or Hill Street Blues would've gotten my vote.
Wow I caught this video early!!! I just love the upload schedule recently!!! Great Job!!!
Pimp My Ride, Cribs, Cops...
Weird History has been waging war against "reality" TV lately and I am LOVING IT!
...especially when it comes to Cops and Pimp My Ride. Reality TV is bad enough but if it's just a bunch of attention-whores acting like brats or some skill/talent competition, it's not harming anyone. But if the show starts screwing people over like Pimp My Ride or affecting the lives of involuntary participants like with Cops, that's a problem.
And the only show called COPS that matters to me was that old cartoon with Longarm and B.P. Vest.
i miss the old days of Mythbusters and Dirty Jobs, though. no violence, no excess in wealth, just human beings doing awesome stuff that keeps the world spinning. and blowing shit up WHILE cleaning said shit up afterwards, lol
Anyone who wants to "Pimp My Ride" needs to be liquidated.
I was riding my bike late one night on front beach road in Panama city beach one night, coming from a friends, alot of the businesses will leave their outdoor audio systems on during the season, and i had a huge bag of weed and other paraphernalia in my pocket, i passed a closed bar with a cop sitting in the park lot, now i was fine, nothing to really worry about, but i swear the cops theme song was on that sound system and i could barely keep a straight face.
Bra you shouldn’t have weed to begin with, get your life together
you think that is bad. my and my cousin got high as hell one night & stopped buy a store & to get 2 bag's of chips & drinks. i went up to pay then i turned around & there was a cop standing there. i walked be by this cop high as hell. i got back to my cousin's truck there was my cousin laughing has ass off..
@@Philadelphia_Eagles ok boomer.
They should have made a 40 min show where the cops stand outside an active school shooting and do nothing but arrest panicked parents that try to help their children
Buuuuurn
Turns out that for some bad boys they are are not gonna be in a rush to come for you :(
@@lilith4961 The Springfield cops are on the take. But what do you expect with the money they make?
Bad cops. Bad cops.
Touche
@@chickencharlie1992 sadly I would have expected that during a time when their popularity and trust is at a low point they would rush to the rescue in a situation where no one would be angry they shoot the F out of the shooter
@@lilith4961 ...it's from Star Wars
I remember watching this show almost every night with my dad. We would always sing the theme song every time it came up. Ahhh good memories
No one is gonna watch a TV show about cops sitting at desks filling out paperwork.
Ever hear of "Barney Miller"?
They will if it was a well written comedy or a gripping drama.
Why not?
I live in a small town which is referred to as a “speed trap” and when I see someone from out of town get pulled over I think of the cops theme song.
When my husband was pulled over for speeding he turned on that song, the cop laughed and said that's a first for him 😂
Colfax, wa. Worst speed trap ever
ironically that theme song is about cops murdering ppl on job I highly recommend you research the original intent lol full song I found the show beter due to this real giga Chad fact
ludowici ga lol
Starke Fl🤣😭
‘What ya gonna do when the cops come for you’, addictive… 👮🏻♂️
NOT going to lie, I was a single parent in the 90's, and let my Jr. High school aged children watch COPS. I'd use that to showcase how being dumb or a criminal gets you arrested. It worked.
Why would your kid be a criminal lol
So your kids grew up to be smart criminals who never got caught?😂
Awesome.
@@FrankYammy Temptation, or going along with stupid other kids.
@@FrankYammy she used it as a deterrent. You should’ve been on cops with a dumbass question like that.
When it comes to police, we are known for our world-famous traffic ladies. Not every intersection has lights in our city, so we recruit women instead of stand in the middle of intersections to control traffic and stop cars when they're breaking the law.
Thank you Supreme Leader
I grew up in Portland where the show started, and lived on the street called out in the call, on Cully and Killingsworth. Absolutely terrifying, so much crack and crime.
Edit apparently local lore is the it started in Portland but it was actually Florida. My whole life… , I am pretty gullible.
Didn't it start in Florida?
Lol..absolutely...
All the crack crime
Killingsworth _still_ trying to keep it dirty. Because it's an industrial/trucking services area, it will win it's NoPo war against ever cleaning up.
But damned if you can afford to live on the streets our parents _used_ to tell us to stay away from these days.
Most of you couldn't afford to live on SE Division, N Mississippi, or much of the inner East Side today. It's the Portlandia turf.
And Rockwood still puts most of 80's/90's east LA to shame. The King of sketchy hoods you never heard about.
@@shawnmartin95358 holy moly! You know, local legend has it. Shit, lol. There was a local sheriff who got a lot of tv time and many episodes are from there and then my street called out I have believed that my whole life. Geez! Thanks for the correction and info, I googled it. Thanks 🙏🏻
As somebody who visit Portland regularly and it's definitely a place that you lock your doors right after getting off I-205
Y’all got anything on Live PD? It’s like the modern day Cops on A&E.
Is it wrong that back in the day, we used to get messed up and watch Cops? It was fun and funny.
Only if it was *absinthe* and you were waiting for Unsolved Mysteries
That's just asking for it...
@@MellowFresh welp, better then some random shooting you on a Tuesday
@Jesse MacDonald IDK where that is but California is sad for Texas ✌
Everybody did
@@DaRealKing303 #undergrad life
Bad boys, bad boys... I remember when we used to listen to it at class parties as teens.
The police chief at the time in my hometown of Columbus,Ohio never liked the show that's why they never came to my city.
Cops and live PD was some of the best stuff on TV.
Dion's death is tragic, I thought you were going to say a car accident not a shooting.
The camera man?
It’s worse that he was shot to death by a cop
A gas satation I used to frequent in Santa Cruz, CA was the location of a police shooting. The suspect didn't shoot, only made a what the thought was a move toward a gun. A cop or two shot immediately followed by a hail of gunfire by every other cop on scene.
There were over a hundred bulletholes in the gas station. Luckily the clerk had seen the situation before it erupted and got herself and the customers down to the floor. The whole place was riddled, exterior and interior.
Now when I see cops with guns out I get the hell out of Dodge.
i was very young, probably 3/4 years old, i would dance around the living room with my stuffed bunny singing along and jammin' (HARD) to the theme song every time i heard it come on the tv! lol.
Thank you for this post! I really enjoyed this episode.
You forgot Emergency! It was about Squad 51. It got people interested in CPR, rescues, and paramedics.
1989: cops premiered and made us root for police
1991: we became suspicious about the LAPD
2020: half of us rallied around police in defense of good cops.
2022: Uvalde happened and now we give up.
There was a joke about the "Cops" theme song "Bad Boys" by "Inner Circle": You heard it once on the radio in the late 80s, and countless thousands of time on TV every time a "Cops" episode came on throughout the 90s, 00s, and 10s for the past 30 years!
So what's the joke?
@@flaskanbottle9250 did you even read my entire comment?
@matt OM..F-ing...G, man. I can't believe this! I wrote the joke in my original comment. Here it is. in parenthesis.
Start of joke
(You heard it once on the radio in the late 80s, and countless thousands of time on TV(television) every time a "Cops" episode came on throughout the 90s, 00s, and 10s for the past 30 years!)
End of joke
I'm still not getting the joke. Please explain it to us like we are a bunch of 4 year olds.
This person referring the cops being the bad boys
You have THE voice man. Seriously, million dollar voice. Love your videos!
I will recommend a podcast titled “Headlong: Running from Cops” that came out in 2019. It was seven or more episodes that focused on this TV show. It was an eye opener for me. Examined the behind the scenes practices of the producers and cops involved with the series, exposing what occurred in their quest for a hit show with big ratings. Well researched and produced podcast.
Yay, another vid, I love these. I never watched Cops but always saw it on, wonder if I missed anything?
Me personally I love the show and it’s very entertaining 🤣Pluto tv has a channel with 24/7 cops
Funny how everyone thinks it’s called “keeping up with the kardashians”
It’s actually called by the producers “dumbing down with the dipshittians”
You would know
Those sharks of mud make me puke.
Sure they are terrible people, but I'd still sacrifice you and your whole family to be in their place.
I've never watched that show ever. Not once.
@@Sharon-fw9qw Consider yourself fortunate.
In spite of how COPS portrayed "policing" and criminals etc it was, with a heap of irony, actually really popular amongst the folks who found themselves on the non-police side of the system. Now, most of the time they would be rooting for the folks to get away from the police, but back in the days when it was more popular and came on more often (mid to late 90's) I rarely ran into someone who wouldn't stop and watch an episode if they were flipping through the channels and came across one - plus they were half-hour shows with 5-10 min segments and so it wasn't a huge time investment. I can remember plenty of evenings with whole rooms of people "Ooooooh-ing" when someone got tackled or a car wrecked etc. It was exploitative an unrealistic to the max and everyone knew it, but there was still a certain thrill to it - like rubber-necking past an accident or even worse (?) shows like Jerry Springer that were also on tv around the same time.
And *everyone* recognized and could sing the song. That really stinks though about the royalty situation. When they mentioned about it being licensed I was thinking those guys should be set for life with as many times as that show used to air on some channels - until the video mentioned they sold off the rights for $2,500... which is horrendous. They'd be millionaires many times over had they held onto the rights and just continued licensing the song. But they probably were in a difficult financial situation and the lawyers from cops must have sweet-talked them into it to get the band to think that the show wouldn't be around long enough and that they'd be better off to just cash it on the rights while they could. But that's just about criminal how low-balled they were on the actual amount the band received - the guy that bought the rights knew damn well what he was doing when he offered them only $2,500. Honestly, if the show hadn't been able to get the rights they probably would have had to have dropped the song and paid someone else to write them a new theme for a flat fee because even having to pay just a tiny amount per airing would have run up a fortune in licensing fees over all these years. All the same, those guys should have come out better...
As a kid I grew up watching the show! I always made the joke "COPS is filmed infont of a live studio audience" which all the TV shows used to say
I would love to know more about the 90's show Sightings with host Tim White.
I seen a guy I grew up with on the show and thought, naahhhh.... that's not Andre. Then the cop said, "Andre, why you run from us?" Andre said, "why you chasing me?" I was like, yeah... that's him.
I live in Spokane and I was looking up something in our local legislation that had rules regarding police reality tv because so much of the show is filmed in Spokane lol
Even as a 9 yr old I understood that COPS was basically only showing the highlights of everything they filmed. From memory, most of the calls they responded to on the show were disturbing the peace or domestic disputes and homes or businesses.
Cops was my little brothers FAVORITE show 😅 oddly enough he’s in jail right now I’m not really sure what for our dad just sent me a message telling me and asking if I’d call him 😅
Cops taught me a few lessons. Never smoke or drink in or before driving, and make sure your vehicle has everything working properly and keep up with insurance and registration. I swear 90% of the show is "I smell alcohol/weed" or your licence/registration/insurance is invalid" or your license plate light is out
I'm in New Zealand and would watch this show daily! Love USA!
Thank you Casey.
My cousin and her husband visited New Zealand 🇳🇿 before the pandemic.
They loved it and brought me some pretty gifts.
Connie,
United States 🇺🇸
Doubt it's in New Zealand 🇳🇿 Although i'm watching this video from Australia 🇦🇺 where we have our own version of that show called " Northern Territory Cops " 👮♂️ 👮♀️🐊🥷 . ♑️✍️🇦🇺🇳🇴
@@dongross6624 You are most welcome! You're welcome to come over for a visit too, our borders are open and life is more or less back to normal.
Best wishes to you and yours. 😊
@@KC_Eden
Oh you are so kind!
Love from Indiana, United States.
Best wishes and be well.
@@dongross6624 Our Prime Minister is touring USA at the moment. She was on the late show with Stephen Colbert. I'd love to visit your country one day!
LOL I had no idea 1:25 we were at the point where this needed to be explained 😂🤣
World's Wildest Police Videos was another "reality" show that had a ton of bells and whistles added to it. I always wondered why the news anchor reporting from the chopper that followed suspects sounded the same no matter what city or town it was all going down in. Then it hit me that it was all edited in later with corny sound effects.
I forgot about that show! I want to go watch it now lol.
i always wanted to see one where the guy gets away . that would be epic.
@@ronblack7870 I'm sure it happened but they would've never put it on the show.
And the host of that show, John Bunnell, first became somewhat famous for being featured on episodes of Cops, when they were almost always in Broward Co Florida.
Great video! Now do one on "World's Wildest Police Videos" with Sheriff John Bunnell. I'll bet there's some juicy behind-the-scenes stuff there...
I thank X-Files for the crossover
As soon as I saw the title, bad boys popped into my head
Same 😆
"All suspects are guilty until proven innocent in the court of law" Cops.
I worked for my Brother in his law office, he is very adamant about reading everything before you sign. Yea, it's common sense, but most people don't do it, and then they get mad when, fill in the blank.
Cops inspired a rip off show in my city ( Montgomery, Alabama), called Cops in Montgomery , later shortened to MPD. They used " Life in the Fastlane " by the Eagles as its theme, and most of the episodes were traffic violations, weed possession, disturbing the peace and police picnics LOL
Thx for sharing!!!
Actually what was considered the first reality show was the 1973 PBS series “an American family.”
Wasn't a show so much as a long movie. Also, nobody ever mentions People's Court!
@@ckwind1971 that’s because Peoples Court was not a reality show
I'm surprised Weird History didn't talk about the crossover episode with COPS and X-Files when it was on TV at the time.
I remember this strike well! I went to a Star Trek script writing seminar in SF to learn about expanding my writing. ( I'm such a Trekkie!) I still have a very good script, though dated, I may send to Ron Moore just for a kick, and to keep my promise to showcase what lead to the reasons why Counsellor Troi is so dysfunctional. 😆
They were desperate, I guess. Interesting times.
Yea..I guess we can say Star Trek was exaggerated too. After all , our space shuttles never encounter Aliens etc ...Geez,,,This world is going crazy. A show is a show. You don't like it .. change the channel. Right?
I am not sure what to think of Cops, it has always seemed rather shady to me but I never really watched much of it.
I would never sign a waiver to be on that show.
Excellent video, very interesting and helpful.
I've had a few run ins with reality TV. I was on an episode of cops and almost appeared on the hungry investors ( I was employed at not one but BOTH of the restaurants in one particular episode) crazy how small the world is
While they were in Spokane I had a friend who was a cop that they were doing a follow-up interview after a call when on the radio there was a pursuit in progress. You could hear the sirens in the distance getting closer. He was calmly talking about it then he said they are coming this way. Yes, they did because they sped past them during the interview still filming the whole thing with cop cars right behind them. They lost control and were captured. It was a stolen car. He walks over to them in the car and calmly talks to them just saying to them it wasn't a good decision for them to do the crime and they filmed it all. They stayed in Spokane if I remember right, for four days and they got their fill.
The earlier seasons of Cops were the best. Great program. I remember the episode of "Everybody Loves Raymond" where Ray's watching "Cops" with his brother Robert the NY police officer. Ray criticizes "Cops" so Robert asks him to go on a ride along. Ray finds out how it's like to be a cop and that his brother is braver than he thought. One of the funniest progams ever.
Straight propaganda.
Yeah, they showed murders and shit...I had a VHS called COPS 'Gone wild' or something like that...it had some stock footage of Mardi Gras and a few naked 80's girls in it lol...but i remember every every episode on it was bloody as hell..the last one though, showed a dead baby in a crib (I can't remember if the cameraman was careful and only filmed the top portion of the crib where it was covered in blood, or he filmed it straight on and they blurred it. (They didn't blurred anything else in the whole VHS tape though...) I never watched that last one again, I just wanted to see tiddies and bad guys get blown away, not dead babies...
As a former cop this show was a comedy as far as I was concerned. The paperwork was such a joke I spent most of my time giving warnings. Confiscate and be on your way or arrest and do hours of brain damaging amounts of reports.
So I have to ask….why do cops fish so hard to make arrests even when people are innocent?
Imagine being one of the mindless herd that actually believes what they are being shown is "reality".
Another reason things are how they are.
Trash T.V & Media, I love how people put down shows like Jerry Springer but refuse to acknowledge today's mess. Teen Mom, yeah, let's glorify teen pregnancy. Any reality show where idiots make fulls of themselves.
This brought us to our present issue of social media influencers. Really sad.
It was the 1980's. The internet didn't exist to have an alternative source of fact checking. Only information available to anyone in the world were both TV and Newspapers. Both of which were controlled to sensationalize everything.
@@vixxxenfoxxx3660 your user name places you in the very middle of the mess.
There's a lot of truth to that phrase
"There's a sucker born every minute."
Hey, with it being on Fox I'm not at all surprised. Literal reality never has been a strong suit for that crowd.
Sadly the streets really are full of criminals all the time. The "unrealistic depiction" is way more real than people think.
A great episode would have been the cops responding to that last school shooting. The show could have revealed how the cops formed a perimeter and did nothing for over 40 minutes until finally a border patrol agent had enough and went in to do their job.
A better episode would have been the cops in Chicago saturating the gang areas and stopping the 218 gang related B on B homicides so far in 2022.
@@davidgoodman6924
So you're concerned about the well being of black people? NOT LIKELY....
@@48mastadon We all know now BLM and Democrats are not concerned! Fact
@@davidgoodman6924
The funny thing about you racists is that you're real easy to spot. We see you and you're not fooling anybody.
@@48mastadon why make an assumption he could be black for all you know and gang violence is outa hand in Chicago
Thanks for this! 🚔
Don't forget that many police departments wouldn't let cops broadcast anything that made the department look bad.
and why would they ? would you ?
@@ronblack7870 If I were running the department no. However, it does create a skewed perception that police can do no wrong and crime is out of control.
You sound very congested buddy, I hope you're taking good care of yourself, and not coming down with anything too serious. Great Video!
Fact: if you were to air a version of cops with an opposite perspective, one that showed what American policing is really about, its inner subculture, the good ol boy system, and the things they get away with, it would be a hundred times more popular than COPS ever was.
Yeah, I wonder how many crimes the cops committed were filmed by the crew and not aired.
I was on an episode in Kansas City in the late 80's. I also know from some Kansas City cops that Cops producers at least in KC encouraged the person being detained/arrested to not cooperate.
There are a lot of episodes in filmed KC for some reason lol
@@EHiggins Yep.. but they haven't filed there in a long time.
This is so funny because I watch sometimes just to see if people wouldn't get in trouble. And I think it happened every now and again but very rarely.
Funny Cops story. I worked at a Burger King in Dallas. These 2 police officers said they were in a hurry to get home to watch Cops. I asked didn't you get enough of that on he job. One of them told me it was like getting on the job training. It made sense to me.
Whatchu gon whatchu go whatchu gonna do.
I loved watching cops with my grandma back in the day
Makes me want to go back and watch to see how many times the thin blue line violated our rights.
Loved this show back when i was a kid.
I seen a guy I grew up with on the show and thought, naahhhh.... that's not Andre. Then the cop said, "Andre, why you run from us?" Andre said, "why you chasing me?" I was like, yeah... that's him. This show also regularly featured Civil Rights violations, that we thought were normal and now through 1st amendment auditors, know are absolutely not ok.
That show destroyed the brain of many people in my generation and Gen X. It normalized constitutional violations by the State and portrayed those violating peoples rights as "heros"
Very well done program. I had no idea about this stuff.
I worked with a local access TV station as an eager 18 year old. They wanted to do a community-based “Cops”-type show. The cops absolutely loved the idea, with certain ones angling for screen time (and to bang the female camera ops) and others getting upset if their arrest didn’t make the edit.
I thought it was great, went out to shoot for a couple of nights, nothing major. Then I sat down to edit the show and there was footage I hadn’t shot, or seen, of a domestic dispute, with people I knew.
It was in that moment I realized that the idea of this show was nothing more than bootlicking cops and making normal folks with everyday problems look like felons and wild-eyed addicts.
Thankfully, we produced 3 episodes that never aired. The theme song was “You’ve Got Another Thing Coming” by Judas Priest.
I am mortified to admit this, but I’m hoping it’ll be cathartic for me. 😪
I was in my 20's when COPS first came out and watched that decade and the next decade and part of the next. I liked knowing my shows were coming up Saturday night because I really loved, America's Most Wanted!
Hello Joyce! How’re you doing?
@@scottanthony8240 I am taking it one day at a time!
@@joycebrackbill3577 sorry I don’t get you. What are you taking one day at a time?
My dad made me watch Cops when I was a little kid to show what happens when I am a bad person later on in life and one that I vividly remember was a guy being chased in his underwear then getting tazed halfway through after they caught him trying to break into his ex girlfriend's house.
Sadly your father didn't teach you 90% of those "bad" people in the system hurt no one and are only there because the State creates laws for the private prison industry to make profit.
Rip this show, I remember singing the theme song with my dad growing up
I'd enjoy a episode about how Merry Melodies/Looney Toons came to be.
Love the video!
I remember my grandmother watching this show 😁 and I viewed myself a few times as well.
Cops is one of the best shows ever made. I like to think it helped me respect police for the hard and dangerous work they do.
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I have had two encounters with "Reality Shows" in my life. I can tell you that so called reality shows are not. I'm sure "Cops" is similar to others. By the way, you did not include the story of how a "Cops" production member told a Police Officer to chase a suspect that resulted in killing an innocent civilian during a chase.
Loved COPS.. I was working the second shift back in the day, so my wife would record it on our brand-new high-dollar VCR!
I used to watch cops on Saturday night if I wasn't going out to concerts or hitting the town
I am baffled that anyone would think, a 30 minute show is a reflection of anything. Who would be stupid enough to think that 30 minutes defined, police officers, criminals or humanity?
Seeing an episode from your home town was an experience. It's funny how editing and format can make El Paso, Texas look as gritty as a much larger city. But I remember those few episodes being pretty lame, and the focus of one was the same cops picking up the same cross dressing hooker downtown twice in the same night.
I would love to see a review of what really went on in MTV's "Bully Beatdown". I can't believe they got away with airing that show.