Cops

COPS is a fine show if you want to watch a bunch of white trash people in wife beaters(if they have a shirt on at all) make total asses out of themselves. Most of the crimes depicted on COPS are crimes like drug use, domestic abuse, breaking and entering and so on. The funniest one I think I ever seen on COPS was a guy pushing a hot water heater down the road and the cops stopping him then going into a local business that had broken into and the hot water heater had been stolen from, and then still claiming his innocence. It's amazing how stupid people that are getting arrested on this show are, but I guess if they weren't that stupid they wouldn't be on COPS and/or the show wouldn't be as entertaining as it is.

The recent wave of reality shows on television, or in more precise terms "wave of crap", still can not compare to the only true series of the genre, Cops. Survivor started off well, but it began showng signs of utter ridiculousness until its obscene state now. Everything else is just a plain hack of it. By the way, I'm confused by the point being brought up by the naysayers of this show. What the heck were you expecting, actors with scripts?

I try to be open to all views, and have a family with many LEOs, but I agree there are some bad apples that are police. I'm all for bodycams, and Cops served to be a super bodycam or nannycam. Police do a job that many won't do, get paid marginally considering the risks they take, and not really sure how this show supposedly glorified them. It just showed what they do/did. There are certainly times where I think they maybe overstepped, but the camera perhaps forced them to stay "cleaner" than maybe they otherwise might. We only know about Floyd and many other cases that are turning this country on its head because of videos being taken, so why to cancel a show that served to take more video seems ridiculous.

This is a series that I and my family truly enjoyed and I still watch re-runs.

Great reflection of real life of what cops deal with. That is why they cancelled it, because it shows reality. And cops deal with a lot of B-S. You can almost click on any episode and you will see criminals resist arrest etc putting their own life and others in danger.

Political correctness is taking over this country. Too bad.

(Interesting how relatively few reviews there are for such a successful show!)

I used to be a COPS junkie - watched it faithfully, and still enjoy it, but that has been waning considerably over the past few years.

Interviews years ago with the show's producers revealed that they were under constant pressure from some special interest groups concerned that too much of the show featured certain demographic groups - unfairly, in their opinion, but the reasonable response was the most exciting and serious events were picked for each episode regardless of race, colour, or city/town location.

Watching COPS now obviously indicates that they've caved in to that pressure.

Now, it's mostly boring domestic disputes and impaired driving, of a different demographic, events seemingly now picked for appeasement to those aforementioned special interest groups?

I'll still watch, but only maybe once a month, or two now. Very "pc", for the most part.