I’d say daredevil does the best version of portraying police. A few good apples while most get radicalized.
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ACAB every day but don't you dare come for Mariska Hargitay. 1) we all know SVU is fiction (that's why they say it every episode), and most of us are aware it's mostly fantasy and also 2) svu often points out the shortcomings of other non-them svu teams and the NYPD in general.
Mariska is a gem irl. Let me enjoy my fantasy cop show.
(It has to be said: this is a tongue-in-cheek comment and I understand the point that was being made in the meme, I just really love svu ok.)
Okay but, hear me out—are we not going to look back one day and feel that it was really fucking weird that we had a cop show dedicated entirely to rape? Maybe I’m thinking about it all wrong but that seems exploitative in a weirdly fetishistic way
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I encourage everyone to watch Skip Intro's series on Copaganda: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2ac8vr2QyTdlWwd8OQIc1it6bAfMGPPC (also available on Nebula)
And to do so on Nebula if you have a subscription.
Those cop shows also glorify cops who breaks rules and trample rights as good cops who do what they need to do to solve a crime. It leads to people excusing abuse by cops in the real world
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I wish I could find that Reddit post about the commenter who called the police every time her ex came by and they literally told her that their arms are tied and there's nothing they can do. She asked them what will it take for them to act, and the cops said, "Maybe if he tried to kill you."
And she even said the restraining order meant nothing to the cops.
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Then you watch "The First 48" and realize that unless someone actively snitches or the fool immediately goes to the cops "to give their side" and/or flat out confesses, cops would never "solve" crimes.
Moral of the story: Shut the fuck up
My town's police department posts info on wanted criminals on FB and people comment on the posts basically doing the cops' jobs for them. Every person who has been posted about has been caught. The cops here rely on the public to catch criminals and they're shameless about it. Meanwhile they spend their time on duty harassing people who ride ebikes.
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unless someone actively snitches
Then you go to The Innocence Project and find out how many jailhouse snitches are issuing false testimony to lighten their own convictions.
I really like how Brooklyn 99 addressed this at the end.
B99 was a very good comedy that took place in an absolute fantasy world.
But hey, that's sitcoms for you. Nobody in Big Bang Theory has to spend a season wiggling out of date rape allegations. Nobody in 7th Heaven gets molested by a priest. Nobody in Cheers beats their spouse.
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Addresses what? That entire series, especially the final season, is all copaganda about "Sure, there are corrupt cops out there, but there are also squads on your side that are breaking the law in order to enforce their own morals, so you shouldn't hate cops"
Final Season:
"Our bad guys, we just realized we're part of the copaganda machine so all the best characters are going to quit the force"
Some people: "Omg that makes it worse why didn't you all kill yourselves instead?"
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United States: How do the Chinese and Russians fall for such obvious government propaganda!?!
Also United States: OMG, my favorite show CSI: Miami Law Blue Bloods Unit is on! OMG, my favorite movie is on Cop Show, but With More CGI and Colorful Costumes!
I feel like you can both enjoy cop shows and know that ACAB IRL.
I personally tend to find it difficult tbh, unless the parts of the show that AREN'T the copaganda hero worship is exceptionally well-written and/or stupid in ways that delight me.
Examples of cop shows (including hybrids with aspects of other genres) I will watch and rewatch for all time:
Lucifer, Brooklyn 99, Paradise PD, Mindhunter, The Wire, Dexter
Examples of shows with so much or so awful copaganda that I believe they should not be allowed on TV without a disclaimer:
Every CSI show; NCIS; every Law & Order show, but especially the ones where they torture and otherwise abuse presumed innocent people the most; 24; Blue Bloods
Cop shows I go back and forth about:
True Detective, Castle, The Blacklist, White Collar, Bones
My parents really like Blue Bloods. It baffled me how often the cops break the law, acknowledge that they're breaking the law and hurting innocent people, and then just... move on.
Lucifer... Yeah, the way that show ended, I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. The rest are cool, though.
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Hey, it's not always like that. Now they can also report the victims to ICE, which makes the problem go away much faster.
So more like Daredevil: Born Again.
I mean, they still have the commissioner being this impossibly pure naïve good guy instead of being fully complicit in covering everything up, which is what would be (and already is) the case IRL.
Don't get me wrong - the show's clearly a step in the right direction, but it's still got too much of an "a few bad apples" vibe for me.
Just say no to unnecessarily censored posts
Thank you, self censorship drives me up the wall.
Maybe it was posted to Reddit and then taken here?
Either way, thank you for your service, soldier!
"Dick Wolf"
"You can't say that on television!!"
Dire Dick Wolf
Now do "Speed Weed".
Lies! He's just a regular wolf!
"I have some real problems with this SVU script. We can't say 'dick wolf' on TV!"
Is this the part where I say "hello", or...
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What is r and why does it warrant investigation?
r is a slur fort mentally disabled people and it's being investigated because the police love beating up disabled people of all sorts.
To be fair, sometimes instead of beating them up they shoot them.
They need 5 to 1 at least to muster the courage for a fight.
When they don't want any cardio that day (which is most days)
Rope. Marijuana. It’s often censored on social media because algorithms refuse to promote anything controversial or violent. As a result, folks online have created euphemisms for it. Rather than saying “I’m smoking rope” you’ll often find people stating “I’m king grope” to avoid AI cancelation. Hope that helps.
"got em on the ropes", "show em the ropes", "rope-a-dope", "soul on a roll but you treat it like soap on a rope cause the beats and the lines are so dope", it was right in front of our faces!
they leveled up