"'Cops' canceled by Paramount Network in wake of George Floyd death, protests over police brutality"

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I’ve spent many sleepless nights wondering how Ryder and his team of pups receive funding for what must be a massive yearly budget. I mean Paw Patrol HQ, the Paw Patroler mobile command center, the Sea Patroler??!

They must spend billions every fiscal year on construction and equipment alone!

The fine people of Adventure Bay must be getting fleeced when tax time comes around…
 
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The mayor made a chicken her most trusted adviser and sends a child and dogs to perform dangerous sea and arial rescues. If that’s not corruption, I don’t know what is.
 
🤣 😂 😜

I see you too, are a connoisseur of fine children’s television programming.

Always nice to meet a fellow traveler!
 
Hodos said:
Shows like Cops show the heroism and danger that our law enforcement agencies face everyday, as well as the professionalism of the majority of those who serve in the law enforcement community.
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Coercing people into signing releases doesn’t sound very professional to me.
 
TheLittleLady said:
I will never understand the fascination with finding entertainment in people having their worst days.
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Cops was actually just a police procedural show. It was the same as going on a ride-along with police, only better because you got to see it from a cops-eye view and, unlike a normal ride-along, the police officer didn’t drop you off before he went on the potentially dangerous call.

It helped me to understand what police typically deal with as the featured calls were pretty ordinary. I would say it contributed to my knowledge that I went on to use later as an attorney. I certainly wasn’t watching it because I was “fascinated” with seeing some poor schmoe “having his worst days”.

I understand that true crime and police procedurals are not everyone’s preference, but many of them are not sensationalized, especially back in the 90s and 00s, and many people have a genuine interest in true portrayals of police, investigations etc as opposed to the Hollywoodized kind you get on fictional TV series.
 
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I liked Live PD and for the most part I like cop shows. They only reinforce what my father said when he gave me the talk when I was a teen. Be polite, don’t talk back and do what the officer tells you and you will not get into trouble. My sibling who has a concealed carry permit and a gun in his car followed the rules when he got caught speeding and got off with a warning.
 
Balto1 said:
Coercing people into signing releases doesn’t sound very professional to me.
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Define coerce. Asking someone to sign a release is not coercion. Also, many people did not sign releases which is why their faces were blurred out. Lastly, you are conflating the actions of television show producers with the police.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
Cops was actually just a police procedural show. It was the same as going on a ride-along with police, only better because you got to see it from a cops-eye view and, unlike a normal ride-along, the police officer didn’t drop you off before he went on the potentially dangerous call.
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Let me quote from this Vulture article:
[Henry] Molofsky: The critical reception to [Cops] in the early '90s was very positive. It viewed Cops as being very realistic, a new way to view policing in a “close-up way.” And Cops was nominated for Emmys in 1989, ’90, ’93, and ’94 — both before and after the L.A. riots. But Cops was also a very different show back then. Another thing we found is that Cops grew to become more formulaic over the last 31 years. There are more arrests, more car chases. It gradually came to show cops as being more effective.
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Hodos said:
Define coerce.
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Suspects have been threatened with trumped up charges and denied bail if they didn’t sign the release. That’s not to mention the many who were too inebriated to sign or those who claim they never signed.
 
Balto1 said:
Suspects have been threatened with trumped up charges and denied bail if they didn’t sign the release. That’s not to mention the many who were too inebriated to sign or those who claim they never signed.
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Feel free to show me any plea deal offered by a district attorney’s office (who are the ones who actually charge the defendant - not the police) that stipulates a defendant will receive a deal if they sign a waiver for Cops.
 
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