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Rhiannon12866

(202,970 posts)
Fri Jun 26, 2020, 10:40 PM Jun 2020

The Daily Social Distancing Show: Copaganda - How Cop Shows Lie to You



Trevor looks at how depictions of police in film and TV can skew public perception of cops and glorify officers who break laws and use violence unnecessarily on the job.


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The Daily Social Distancing Show: Copaganda - How Cop Shows Lie to You (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Jun 2020 OP
Thanks for posting this. zentrum Jun 2020 #1
You're more than welcome! Rhiannon12866 Jun 2020 #2
I haven't watched a cop show since The Wire Merlot Jun 2020 #3
The Wire isn't that bad in comparison JonLP24 Jun 2020 #4
The great thing about The Wire was both the dealers and the cops were real people Merlot Jun 2020 #5

Rhiannon12866

(202,970 posts)
2. You're more than welcome!
Fri Jun 26, 2020, 11:04 PM
Jun 2020

It's going to be a tough week ahead with all the late night shows in repeats and The Daily Show is preempted altogether.

Merlot

(9,696 posts)
3. I haven't watched a cop show since The Wire
Sat Jun 27, 2020, 01:17 PM
Jun 2020

The clips they show were hard for me to watch, I can't imagine tuning into that every week.

Yes, cop shows are propaganda.

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
4. The Wire isn't that bad in comparison
Sat Jun 27, 2020, 01:33 PM
Jun 2020

More realistic I mean. I read David Simon's Homicide book and was amazed how much he ripped from real life for the show like the using a service weapon on a mouse lines. That happened in real life.

Merlot

(9,696 posts)
5. The great thing about The Wire was both the dealers and the cops were real people
Sat Jun 27, 2020, 06:45 PM
Jun 2020

There were many dealers you could have sympathy for, and you could also see the good and bad in the cops and what pressures they were under.

The clips on the Daily Show looked like something out of a daytime drama circa 1985.

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