{"id":20148,"date":"2013-05-07T00:01:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T05:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=20148"},"modified":"2013-05-06T17:29:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T22:29:55","slug":"fox-cancels-cops-after-extremely-long-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/05\/07\/fox-cancels-cops-after-extremely-long-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox cancels <em>COPS<\/em> after extremely long run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/good-riddance-fox-cancels-long-running-drug-war-glorifying-abuse-excusing-reality-series-cops\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Kirell<\/a> bids an unfond farewell to a show that spent all its time on the air glorifying the police:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After a 25-year run valorizing America\u2019s police forces to the thumping reggae pulse of Inner Circle\u2019s \u201cBad Boys,\u201d Fox has canceled its weekly reality TV series <em>COPS<\/em>. To which we should say: good riddance.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the show is being picked up by all-things-manly cable network Spike TV, but critics of the increasing militarization of American police should celebrate nevertheless: the long-running series will no longer air its highly-selective take on \u201cpolicing\u201d to as large an audience as Fox\u2019s Saturday night lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Of all the police reality shows available for viewing today, <em>COPS<\/em> may actually be the most tolerable. Unlike its cop-shows-on-steroids successors, <em>COPS<\/em> often did a good job depicting the monotonies of police beat work, and the oddities of dealing with some of the more bizarre domestic disputes. That being said, the show\u2019s legacy is one of glorifying and overlooking abuse through a highly-selective, heavily-edited depiction of \u201creality.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>As part of its 25-year-long weekly reveling in the humiliation of perps and victims alike, <em>COPS<\/em> provided a cringe-worthy dose of schadenfreude for those who enjoy hearty laughter at tatted-and-toothless caricatures being taken to task by virtuous, cowboy-like heroes. Viewers with a more skeptical eye, however, might recoil at police officers bragging about \u201ctasing a man\u201d or the weekly knee-in-the-back of a minority teenager for the victimless crime of carrying a bag of marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, there are many violent crimes broken up by the hardworking police officers shown on <em>COPS<\/em>, with plenty of gracious victims being helped. But for every breaking up of domestic violence, there are embarrassing displays of arrogance. <em>COPS<\/em>&#8216; turning of serious matters into cheap entertainment has often been coupled with the willful neglect of serious issues like police misconduct and civil rights.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Kirell bids an unfond farewell to a show that spent all its time on the air glorifying the police: After a 25-year run valorizing America\u2019s police forces to the thumping reggae pulse of Inner Circle\u2019s \u201cBad Boys,\u201d Fox has canceled its weekly reality TV series COPS. To which we should say: good riddance. 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