The Ending of Current Cop Shows

[Sailor.X]

I am posting this thread because I have seen a few Youtube videos discussing this topic. So why not have it hashed out here in The Sietch. I will say for the record. I don't like the current crop of cop shows. I don't hate cop shows but I loath the current crop of cop shows. These current shows glorify the trampling of Constitutional Rights. They paint anyone who does not have a Left wing point of view as either stupid Maga Hat Wearers or Down right evil villians. They show their main protagonists doing things that would land a real life cop in jail and they don't show any consequences for those actions.

The current Cop Shows are a cancer in my humble opinion that are putting the wrong view of how police are in peoples minds. If it were up to me they would all be canceled and replaced by Cop shows that show how things are really done. And what happens if you don't follow the law. I have seen far too many Right leaning commentators on the internet defending theses same shows that Demonize them in every episode. I find that well to be quite frank stupid. They need to call a spade a spade. You can support good Police Officers and pan Cop Shows. The two are not joined at the hip. But these are my views. What is you take on this topic?

 

[LordsFire]

I haven't watched a cop show since I caught like two episodes of CSI (no idea which version)... 15 years ago?

My general take on hard-left media is that conservatives supporting it is part of why it's so powerful. Stop supporting it, and support alternatives written by people who actually have some idea of how the world works. It tends to be better anyways.

 

[Bacle]

The last 'good' cop show I saw was Alaska State Troopers, and that's only because it showed what real policing is often like, and some of the hazards (physical and mental) besides criminals that they deal with.

 

[Emperor Tippy]

What cop shows are on?

And has there been a good cop show in a decade or more?

 

[PeliusAnar]

It would help if some concrete examples were given. Like what shows and what exactly is bad about them. I mean the last one I have watched was CSI and that was complete garbage in terms of actual policing and investigations. The best was probably Law and Order, the original.

 

[Sailor.X]

What cop shows are on?

And has there been a good cop show in a decade or more?

It would help if some concrete examples were given. Like what shows and what exactly is bad about them. I mean the last one I have watched was CSI and that was complete garbage in terms of actual policing and investigations. The best was probably Law and Order, the original.

Ok current list of Cop Shows I have seen.

Blue Bloods
All of the Law and Order Clones.
All of the NCIS clones
Hawaii 5 0
Swat
FBI

These are the ones I hate and don't watch for my stated reasons.

 

[Argent]

I think that as long as cops shows make money they should stay on. Most of those shows support the left wing veiw anyways. Just look at Law and Order. They go out of their way to show things like Gamergate bad and Trump evil.


Just like people wanting Lego to stop selling cop peices this is a joke. There is no real call out side of random Youtubers. Also while there is a lot of outrage going on it will fade soon enough.

The companies that gave out statements in support of BLM don't really care about any of the killings. They just want to avoide the bad press and angry internet mobs. So while Amazon is happy to put a banner and a line of black movies on the top of everyone's Prime Page they are not going to take away people's shows and lose themselves customers.

That is why so many activists are pushing so hard so fast. They know that they have mabey till July in a best case before the public has mainly memory holed this.

So I say while I think most of these shows are dumb and not worth watching that giving an inch to cancel culture that has been spread from listening to online activists should be resisted everywhere. Give them an inch and they will take a 100 miles.

 

[Deleted member]

I do think cop shows have contributed to some of the very real problems with modern American police culture.

 

[Cherico]

When do you think the general public will finally turn on the internet activists and cancel culture? Because its already been more then 4 years of this crap.

 

[PsihoKekec]

I think that as long as cops shows make money they should stay on.

The shows removed in the Rural Purge were making money but were cancelled anyway. Let the media shoot themselves in the foot with their virtue signaling.

 

[Argent]

The shows removed in the Rural Purge were making money but were cancelled anyway. Let the media shoot themselves in the foot with their virtue signaling.

Are you talking about Last Man Standing becasue that is about the only right wing show that was canceled over poltics that I can recall. It also found a new home while ABC lost one of their better earning shows. But even that was only 80 percent poltics with 20 percent right issues.

But what Rural Purge are you talking about?

 

[PeliusAnar]

Are you talking about Last Man Standing becasue that is about the only right wing show that was canceled over poltics that I can recall. It also found a new home while ABC lost one of their better earning shows. But even that was only 80 percent poltics with 20 percent right issues.

But what Rural Purge are you talking about?

Rosanne.

 

[PsihoKekec]

But what Rural Purge are you talking about?

Rural purge - Wikipedia

 

[Wilykit]

My husband who is a retired ( thank holy GOD) police officer HATES Law and Order SVU with a passion that can't be described. He used to say the every case those basket cases are involved in should be reviewed ( if they were real cops). Also if Unstabler worked for him my husband said he'd probably end up beating Stabler into a pulp.

 

[Argent]

Rural purge - Wikipedia

I can see the comparison but there are some differences. As in more in studio production, trying to chase new viewership and some poltics. It doesn't look like it was like Last Man Standing where Trump bad was the main reason to it being dropped.

But I doubt you will see cops shows canceled like that. They are spread across to many different networks and while most of the upper management believes or play lip service to left leaning ideas they are not going to cancel their money makers and let some one else take them. T
V. is in a much different place then the 1970s. The Big Three have to worry about Fox, plenty of cable packages and a dozen internet streaming services. You see it with the loss of influence from CBS/NBC/ABC news services to how HBO and AMC had the last to big cultural hit shows. In other words their are to many players playing in a much more cutthroat market. Not to mention not many shows are produced in house anymore. While the networks do make a lot of shows still enough can just find a new home.

 

[Lanmandragon]

An argument could bemade that the shows are harmful. My counter though is simply this. None of the people want to cancel care about those issues. All they want is "here cops bad" it's all about submitting to there whims. Therefore it shouldn't be done at this time.

 

[Zachowon]

It would help if some concrete examples were given. Like what shows and what exactly is bad about them. I mean the last one I have watched was CSI and that was complete garbage in terms of actual policing and investigations. The best was probably Law and Order, the original.

The CSI orginal one before season 9 was prety realistic when it came to crime scenes. After Grissom left it started to go down hill and futuristic

Ok current list of Cop Shows I have seen.

Blue Bloods
All of the Law and Order Clones.
All of the NCIS clones
Hawaii 5 0
Swat
FBI

These are the ones I hate and don't watch for my stated reasons.

I will give FBI one thing, they know how to use intelligence analysts. That is about it.

I think most people should know, NCIS, Blue Bloods, and Law and Order SVU seem to be catered towards the people who have been watching these types of shows. My dad in his late 50s early 60s loves NCIS and Blue Bloods, and i think it is just something the Older generation (Those born in the 60s and earlier) enjoy.

Also, I enjoy SWAT because I like senseless action.


On another note, do we count shows like Live PD as a cop show? Or only fictional ones? Since shows like Cops, which there are still reruns of, and Live PD, who dont show everything and often edit the footage even when "Live"? Because these shows show realer policing and are often liked because they arnt fictional craziness.

They also want to ban Cop Movies as well.

 

[Emperor Tippy]

I mean none of them are good cop shows and all of the main casts on them should be before IA and thrown in prison because they violate every law under the sun. But canceling them in response to the protests is pointless.

 

[Sailor.X]

An argument could bemade that the shows are harmful. My counter though is simply this. None of the people want to cancel care about those issues. All they want is "here cops bad" it's all about submitting to there whims. Therefore it shouldn't be done at this time.

Just because the people who want them canceled don't have pure motives does not mean it is not something you don't do. Back in the day lefty activists lobbied against the use of Asbestos in construction and shipbuilding. Right leaning conservatives balked at their claims. Only to be basically shamed by the data 2 decades later about how harmful Asbestos really was. You don't balk at something just because your opponents want it done. You list your own rational reasons for your case to end it.

The CSI orginal one before season 9 was prety realistic when it came to crime scenes. After Grissom left it started to go down hill and futuristic

I will give FBI one thing, they know how to use intelligence analysts. That is about it.

I think most people should know, NCIS, Blue Bloods, and Law and Order SVU seem to be catered towards the people who have been watching these types of shows. My dad in his late 50s early 60s loves NCIS and Blue Bloods, and i think it is just something the Older generation (Those born in the 60s and earlier) enjoy.

Also, I enjoy SWAT because I like senseless action.


On another note, do we count shows like Live PD as a cop show? Or only fictional ones? Since shows like Cops, which there are still reruns of, and Live PD, who dont show everything and often edit the footage even when "Live"? Because these shows show realer policing and are often liked because they arnt fictional craziness.

They also want to ban Cop Movies as well.

The live shows would not be heavily edited either. Because it does paint a false picture of a situation.

 

[Lanmandragon]

Just because the people who want them canceled don't have pure motives does not mean it is not something you don't do. Back in the day lefty activists lobbied against the use of Asbestos in construction and shipbuilding. Right leaning conservatives balked at their claims. Only to be basically shamed by the data 2 decades later about how harmful Asbestos really was. You don't balk at something just because your opponents want it done. You list your own rational reasons for your case to end it.

The live shows would not be heavily edited either. Because it does paint a false picture of a situation.

Sure the left maintains overwhelming cultural power. Almost entirely through consenting to cancel things they demand be cancelled. In order to change that the right must oppose cancellations. Seems pretty rational to me.