Things We Just Learned About The TV Show 'Cops'
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Published 2022-05-25
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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 ðŸ˜
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'd like to see a realistic detective show where they investigate the burglary of a hairdresser's salon, and then make a court appearance over a stolen mobility scooter and then spend the afternoon doing paperwork.
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Who in their right mind didn’t assume/know that only the entertaining parts made it on the show..
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A good friend of mine is a police officer, and she said that more than anything, it's paperwork and driving.
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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
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I reported on a "reality show" in the early days, and learned how unreal they often are. Good report.
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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.
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My Saturday night routine when my son was a toddler: COPS, then America's Most Wanted.
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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.
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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.
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I had a friend whose favorite line about COPS was: "It's always the guy with no shirt on".
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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No one is gonna watch a TV show about cops sitting at desks filling out paperwork.
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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.
