these TV cop shows are ridiculous

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I don't know how a real LEO could stand to watch any of these cop shows on television without laughing themselves silly. 1st of all there are way too many and they are all the same; they always trip over some obvious piece of evidence on their 2nd trip to the crime scene and then their suspect gives a full confession within 2 min. of police questioning. End of show. I know it's just Hollywood, but I just can't sit through 'em. Anybody care to laugh at them with me?
 
One I enjoyed follws detectives called "The First 48" It shows you what real homicide investigations are like. It's mostly old fashioned detective work. DNA is pretty rare, if there in any it takes weeks or months to process. Most of the work is in searching databases, interrogating, and witness questioning. They aren't always successful either. I just can't watch that CSI crap. This show had one episode of a Miami Dade homicide:

It wasn't in some fancy beachfront mansion. It was in the slums in a back alley.

It wasn't some model killing her millionare husband for sleeping with the maid. It was a shooting over drugs.

The CSI team wasn't a bunch of glamorous versaci wearing models. It was one old woman with a magnifying glass.

They didn't make the person confess without any mention of the word laywer. They didn't tell them every thing they did up to the murder including how many cornflakes they ate for breakfast. They never caught the guy.

Much for realistic and intersesting to see after all of this hollywood stuff.
 
One thing that I learned from the show 'Cops' is:

Its not always necessarily 'what you do', it's what you 'say' you did.

It makes me realize its just best to keep your damn mouth shut!
 
Its called editing, and having been on a couple episodes (in the periphery) I can tell you that alot of it is show...who dosent want to be a hot shot on national TV?
BTW alot=99.97%
I laugh all the time, but nobody Im with does. Remain stoic my friend!
 
these TV cop shows are ridiculus

Preface: I no longer personally own a TV, and for many years all I used one for was watching VHS tapes for educational purposes, or watching a Movie, most often an older one.
That said:

-In the old days there was a plot, actors /actresses could act and TV was "entertainment", or "educational".
Folks knew the difference in Public TV and "educational" and Andy Griffith Show and "entertainment".

-Mediums have always "influenced" Society.
Newspaper, Magazine, Radio, TV, and Movies (mediums) found out Society could be "brainwashed", "controlled", "manipulated" and "indoctrinated" which in turn Marketing used to their advantage in Advertising.

Serious, "if you care about your husband and kids, you will use _____ product and housewives were brainwashed into being "good little girls taking care of husbands and kids".

Television Programming is just filler for Commercials - Commercials are Propaganda , be it Gov't control , Societal acceptance of Ideology.

Then it was discovered the Programming itself could be a huge Marketing tool.
Dirty Harry "sold" the Model 29. Die Hard "sold" the Beretta 92, Serpico revived sales of the BHP, and the list goes on...

Society is that desperate to be matriculated into "something" - a group of persons.

Black Guns are EVIL.
Surveillance Camera's are GOOD

Gov't uses these Mediums to Indoctrinate and Control.

YOU cannot do anything without Big Brother knowing it.
We have Cameras, and CSI.

Go sit on a trial and Juries are inflicted with "CSI Syndrome".

In the old days of black and white, Perry Mason dealt with cases and old fashioned "shoe leather" with investigators solved cases and Perry used common sense.

Andy Griffith was "entertainment".
Mannix, Magnum PI, Kojak, Cannon and other shows intertwined "entertainment" with interactions of persons.
Miami Vice, kicked in a new presentation.

Hills Street Blues, brought to light the "cops" perspective, and many times were accurate in how Cops and Law are human, and often times Life is Life, and with the Politics and Political agendas, Cops and Prosecutors get beat by Political Machines , and BGs are let go.
HSB showed the strain on relationships, dating, marriage, kids, divorce, and "dad" not getting to see his kids on visitation day, as he had to be in court, and the scumbag got off because some Politician wanted votes.

Society has always wanted an escape from Reality.
Brothels, Gambling, Olympic Games , Opiates, Spirits....
Gov't knows this, and uses these things to "keep the masses happy" or to "control the masses".

Interesting how the commercials parallel thinking with programming.
BGs have "hi cap assault guns" in the show , and the commercial for "No Parole for having a gun in or around schools".

Show will have a Person depressed and taking out frustrations with crime, and the Commercials deal with Seeing Your Doc to see if you need Meds for Depression.



I am waiting to hear about the TeeVee Show - Arsonist whom learned how to set fires from a book and the commercial being we need to ban books and matches.

TV itself is ridiculous.

Personal Responsibility "should" kick in and viewers should just "watch for visual stimulation" and not allow themselves to be indoctrinated.
They should contact Advertisers and let them know they will NOT buy products with Tyranny based Ideology.

Money. Take away the money and TV shows will be pulled.

I still say folks should go attend a jury trial to really see how Cops, and all this really works.
Then again it does mean turning off a TV, and actually going out in Public.
 
Its called editing, and having been on a couple episodes (in the periphery) I can tell you that alot of it is show...who dosent want to be a hot shot on national TV?
BTW alot=99.97%
I laugh all the time, but nobody Im with does. Remain stoic my friend!
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If it's 99.97% show then someone ought to tell the LEO's to CUT IT OUT!

The show COPs does nothing to engender respect for your average LEO in my mind and I imagine not in the public's mind either.

When I watch that show the LEOs I see are a bunch of power mad control freaks that are obviously very, very afraid of those they are policing.

The police have enough problems with their image as it is without making it worse by allowing them to be portrayed as they are on COPS. Or maybe that's how they want to be portrayed??
 
CSI, Law and Order, any of those shows....bleh, SCOOBY-DOO created the formula they all follow. Seriously.






But it'd be cool seeing the Harlem Globetrotters on CSI.
 
I seldom watch the hollywood cop shows but even the real "COPS" show and other similar ones are entertaining at times. Especially when some of the real cops find a handgun and can't even unload the stupid thing. Evidently they're not gun folks. They prolly carry a sidearm only because they are required to and likely shoot only during annual quals.
Off topic, but I can't stand that narrator either, the retired sheriff, John Binnell.
 
Avenger is cracking me up.
I like Cops, that's reality, and I like the fact that they are caught on film forever behaving the way they are, for better or worse. I saw one in Vegas where the officer (wearing sunglasses) was talking to somebody and knocked their hat off of their head because he didn't like it.:mad: Also funny, they never show the one's where the people get away.
 
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Die Hard "sold" the Beretta 92
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I always thought Lethal Weapon did a better pitch for the Beretta.

As for TV cop shows I only like The Shield for fiction.
All the reality shows have too much drama-injection for my taste (especially anything hosted by "Cheesy" John Bunnell)
 
As unrealistic as it may be, i really enjoy The Shield. Its definitely not the cookie cutter formula of the cops are always right and get the crook. It even has a lot of shades of gray, not just for the "bad cops" ie the strike team, but also for just about everyone.

As for cops, its hard to find a bad episode of that show. Theres something endlessly fascinating about what actually happens (well what appears to actually happen, i'm sure they don't include the footage of patrolling for hours and doing your best to keep awake). That being said, i still get a kick out of the fact that you always see the guy with the camera easily keeping pace with the LEO.
 
I had the opportunity to discuss TV cop shows with a real police officer once. His main grip was they never showed the TV cop doing ANY paperwork, and he had to fill out a lot of reports. Every arrest he made, everytime he talked with a civilian -- even if he did NOTHING he had to fill out a report on that!
I regard shows like CSI Podunk as entertainment. It's an hour of free entertainment. It is not a documentary by a long shot. I suppose in real life a fifty year old woman with grandkids can be a CSI...how many ugly old actresses are there on TV anyway?
There's a reason it's fantasy.
Werewolf said:
The show COPs does nothing to engender respect for your average LEO in my mind and I imagine not in the public's mind either.
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They are human and make mistakes. As for how they treat suspects, not all precincts are created equal. If the officer is to survive he must become aware as to the nature of his precinct. Is it a high crime district, or low crime? There's no doubt officers behavious is quickly modified by what he has to contend with on the streets. Those who don't or can't ... they wind up either dead, or in other jobs.

Personally, I am fonder of some of the older programs. Shows like Dragnet, Adam-12, Naked City, and even Hawaii 5-O . Ironside was good because I liked Raymond Burr and I think he did a good job in that series.
Cold Case is one current program I like.
 
I always liked how on Hawaii Five-O, Jack Lord could take a 90deg. deflection shot at a car 150 yards away, doing 70mph, from the hip, with his 2" S&W Chief's Special, loaded with 158gr. LRN, and hit every time, blowing the tire off of the rim.

On a more sane note, I'm a big fan of A&E's City Confidential. The stories are always interesting and the narration superlative. Paul Winfield was great. I didn't know he was dead until I posted this.
 
there was "Police Story" which was back in the late 60's or early 70's that was pretty good. I like "First 48" and miss "barney Miller just because it was a good show and not because it realistic. "Cops" for the most part sucks. there are some professional cops on the show but for the most part they should be down at the jail. you can pick which side of the bars they should be on
 
I don't know how a real LEO could stand to watch any of these cop shows on television without laughing themselves silly.
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if you mean the fictional ones, i completely agree. if you mean shows like cops or speeders or maybe even smokeys and bandits, that stuff is high-larious. and i'm pretty sure laughing yourself silly is exactly the point. man, i love court TV! the criminals are so dumb, i don't know how you can avoid laughing hysterically.
 
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Yes, I meant the fictional one's where they button up every scene by saying something dramatic/tough and slide on the sunglasses:cool: I guess it's better than Dancing with the Fruitloops.
 
You can't forget Walker: Texas Ranger either. You can't go wrong when Texas Rangers are busy duking it out with Cobra attack helecopters with antiaircraft rockets.
 
The New Detectives on the Discovery Channel is pretty much the original forensics show. Of course it is based on real cases (which often took years to solve) and doesn't have all of the flash and glitz that CSI and its spinoffs rely on (just interviews with investigators involved and simple dramatizations). I think it is quite good.
 
Deanimator said:
I always liked how on Hawaii Five-O, Jack Lord could take a 90deg. deflection shot at a car 150 yards away, doing 70mph, from the hip, with his 2" S&W Chief's Special, loaded with 158gr. LRN, and hit every time, blowing the tire off of the rim.
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:evil: He doesn't use 158 grain LRN bullets. He uses an earlier version of the same bullet used in that Tom Selleck movie in Hawaii wich used guided bullets!!:neener: They also have a matter/antimatter warhead on the tip that makes them especially effective!:neener::scrutiny:;)

Seriously .... a lot of things happen in TV that we all know is garbage in real life. I wonder how many TV shows had snub nosed revolvers with silencers ... we know silencers don't work on revolvers!!!! :uhoh:

But ... hey, it's only TV!!:p:rolleyes:
 
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