I think this is missing the key ingredient: is the victim white and attractive?
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United States: How do the Chinese and Russians fall for such obvious government propaganda!?!
Also United States: OMG, my favorite show CSI: Miami Law Blue Bloods Unit is on! OMG, my favorite movie is on Cop Show, but With More CGI and Colorful Costumes!
I feel like you can both enjoy cop shows and know that ACAB IRL.
I personally tend to find it difficult tbh, unless the parts of the show that AREN'T the copaganda hero worship is exceptionally well-written and/or stupid in ways that delight me.
Examples of cop shows (including hybrids with aspects of other genres) I will watch and rewatch for all time:
Lucifer, Brooklyn 99, Paradise PD, Mindhunter, The Wire, Dexter
Examples of shows with so much or so awful copaganda that I believe they should not be allowed on TV without a disclaimer:
Every CSI show; NCIS; every Law & Order show, but especially the ones where they torture and otherwise abuse presumed innocent people the most; 24; Blue Bloods
Cop shows I go back and forth about:
True Detective, Castle, The Blacklist, White Collar, Bones
The original CSI was great. The first few seasons are all about how the evidence is more important than whatever easy story the cops want to make up, and how society is more complicated than just good guys vs bad guys, and the system isn't always just. It drew a hard distinction between the scientific investigators and the actual cops. Later they turned into just another stupid cop show.
Sorry I'm still salty and say this whenever someone mentions it.
Fuck blue bloods, Black Donnellys was so much better.
This is Reno 911 slander
It was supposed to be an off the cuff set of examples rather than an exhaustive list. That being said, you're right that Reno 911 belongs in that category 😁
Then you watch "The First 48" and realize that unless someone actively snitches or the fool immediately goes to the cops "to give their side" and/or flat out confesses, cops would never "solve" crimes.
Moral of the story: Shut the fuck up
unless someone actively snitches
Then you go to The Innocence Project and find out how many jailhouse snitches are issuing false testimony to lighten their own convictions.
My favorite thing about it is this the more you watch cop shows and cop movies the more you notice a pattern. The biggest villain for all of those shows, the most consistent threat? Internal affairs. It's like every single movie and every single series it has shown up at least once. Those God damn Internal Affairs people stopping good cops from doing what they need to do. It's maybe the single strongest trend throughout all of these shows and movies.
Hell it was even a plot point in Psych. The show about fake psychic detectives had a bad guy Internal Affairs officer.
Reminds me of that one cop show from the BBC that covers an internal affairs and anti-corruption team. It's called Line of Duty.
I used to work for the Medical Examiner's Office. I've picked up more than my share of rape/murder victims. You wouldn't believe the shit I've heard cops say about the victims. I've only ever met a few detectives who really cared and were decent human beings, and coincidentally, they all came from years (or decades) in some other industry before joining their departments as detectives because they had advanced degrees. Never met a single uniformed cop or "promoted from within" detective who was anything other than a soulless piece of power tripping shit at their core.
I was a medic back in the day in a large city. Cops are assholes. Big goofy dumb goons. I've seen them do the dumbest shit. Light a smoke for a dead man. Was just one example. I sat at trial two times just to fuck up a cops day cause they routinely fucked people up for no reason. Goons.
I wish I could find that Reddit post about the commenter who called the police every time her ex came by and they literally told her that their arms are tied and there's nothing they can do. She asked them what will it take for them to act, and the cops said, "Maybe if he tried to kill you."
And she even said the restraining order meant nothing to the cops.
The restraining order means nothing to the supreme court, also.
"Castle Rock v. Gonzales, 545 U.S. 748 (2005), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled, 7–2, that a town and its police department could not be sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for refusing to enforce a restraining order, even though the refusal led to the murders of a woman's three children by her estranged husband."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_of_Castle_Rock_v._Gonzales
Those cop shows also glorify cops who breaks rules and trample rights as good cops who do what they need to do to solve a crime. It leads to people excusing abuse by cops in the real world
I like “The Rookie”.
But all these cops obsessing over the letter of the law, keeping each other in line, caring about perp’s life choices and victim’s problems…
This is fantasy. Might as well be Lord of the Rings.
same thing for the military. I mean, I love Stargate, but I will not pretend for a second that it's not propaganda.
What is r and why does it warrant investigation?
Rope. Marijuana. It’s often censored on social media because algorithms refuse to promote anything controversial or violent. As a result, folks online have created euphemisms for it. Rather than saying “I’m smoking rope” you’ll often find people stating “I’m king grope” to avoid AI cancelation. Hope that helps.
Thank you for anticipating the words that I cannot stomach with my weak-ass feelings and censoring them for me. You're my hero. you cunt.
Hey, it's not always like that. Now they can also report the victims to ICE, which makes the problem go away much faster.