61st Street

It's too bad we can't rate with 0.5 points because I would have given this a 7.5 but after looking at the numbers and other reviews I decided on an 8. This is a typical example of politized scoring and reviewing. This series shows and discusses the institutional racism that is present everywhere in the world and unfortunately everywhere in the police force(s). I'm Dutch, I live in Spain and lived in Italy, England, Austria and I've seen it everywhere. We can deny or ignore it, but deep down we all know it exists. But a part of the ppl get offended by this, not because it's not true, but they choose not to see it.

These series is way better than it's get credited for by the users. It's not great but aboslutely not a 6.2 the score it had when I (re)viewed it.

To me, one of the best written tv shows in a while. I am picky when it comes to the acting, and for me, the acting is very realistic! I give it 9/10 stars!

I think the people who low-balled the rating, never lived in Chicago or, if they did, never went near Englewood, Garfield Park, or Roseland. Their 'trip through the hood' was speeding down the Dan Ryan Expressway on the way to Olympia Fields. This show, like Englewood, is real...and it has been for too many years. I write this as a middle-aged white woman, who was born-and-raised on the South Side. I worked at 26th & Cal (Cook County Court) for years, and unfortunately this show is as realistic as it gets. It's dirty, gritty and hard to watch. BUT DO NOT TURN IT OFF. I've seen cops, clerks and judges take payoffs practically in the open. Their are good and fair public servants; but there are a lot of good and honest people. This show follows it all and hopefully can initiate change.

There are a LOT of ostriches reviewing this show. They're deliberately keeping their heads in the sand and demanding to be allowed to be willfully ignorant to the systemic racism happening all around us but especially in big inner city locals where cops who are supposed to protect us ALL are being allowed to break the very rules meant to do just that.

The setting of the demolished neighborhoods, truly impoverished whole sections of cities ignored by the rest of society is horrifying but more so because it IS true to life. They look like war zones because they ARE.

This show is gonna bother me. Which is exactly what it's supposed to do for those of us who see the world for how it is. Terribly unfair to whole groups of people while others turn a blind eye to their pain.

I noticed another reviewer described this as, ' a Hollywood documentary trying to convince us that cops are corrupt and evil.'

Sorry. This is a show which explains just how corrupt and evil cops really are.

I live in NYC. I've seen cops pull the routines described in this show time and time again for decades. This show is nailing it when it comes to illustrating the truth. There's a great cast here doing stellar work. And as always, Courtney B. Vance is absolutely terrific.