Actual police in small towns are way closer to Reno 911 than Law & Order.
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pretty much every modern law enforcement tv show is copaganda.
Dick Wolf has made bank from it.
Some fiction exists to inspire.
Like, we're on a direct path to the Star Trek: TNG post-scarcity civilization, right? With food replicators and transporters and holodecks and so forth.
Check notes: next step world war 3...
Yup, we're right on target.
The Rookie is another Copaganda show.
A bunch of cops all nerding out over following the law, ethical treatment of minorities, keeping each other in line, actively forcing out bad cops…
What planet is this?
I really like the cast and the show is fun, but it’s as much fantasy as the Rings Of Power.
on the other hand, maybe it will inspire people to become cops with morality?
i doubt it… but id rather hand a standard that they’re failing at, at least
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I 100% guarantee you there are very proper, professional teams of investigators who do prosecute rape thoroughly.
For women with rich dads.
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The irony with the punisher skull is that he loathed crooked cops, and they’re the ones who love the symbol the most.
Cause they know he isn't real
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I liked blue bloods a lot as a show. But damn, the detectives cared way too much about rules for it to be real. Even Danny, (Donnie wahlberg), who was the "bad cop" that broke rules a lot wasn't indicative of reality.
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The thing that always bothered me about law and order shows were that the detectives would easily believe someone’s alibi as fact and just move on. Then you watch a show the first 48 and all they care about is the conviction probability. They don’t care about facts, just what their likelihood of winning in court would be.
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Hey! Did you hear about the kid who held the door against a school shooter, got shot a bunch of times, and survived? Yeah, there's a picture of the kid in the hospital with a cop thanking the kid for doing the cop's job. Because, we all know a cop would not have done the same--or even have been in the building.
Thank Jesus for The Wire
And Homicide. When I started watching it, I was surprised when some episodes ended but the investigation didn't lead to anything and the cops didn't really care.
In The Wire, I really liked when the cop found out the code used by dealers. He started saying "Those kids didn't go to school so the code should be simple..."
Believe it or not, also Copaganda
Oh, it walks a line for sure.
For those in doubt, check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOXQpkUhZyc (also on Nebula)
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The one written by a crime historian, with help from a retired homicide detective
Go figure it paints the most realistic picture
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Same with CSI and... [unpopular opinion] Brooklyn 99.
Yeah as much as I love Jake and Amy and Captain Holt, B99 is copaganda. Once I saw it that way, I couldn't watch it anymore.
Brooklyn 99 was a genuinely good comedy
It was also copaganda
On the bright side, as far as copaganda goes it is pretty mild.
The cops are portrayed as human, and more often than not as incompetent idiots, the federal agents are almost exclusively portrayed as assholes, they never portray violation of rights or due process as a necessary evil, prison is portrayed as, quote, "real bad", a pseudomasculine bigot gets punched in the face, a racist stop-and-frisker is unequivocally an asshole, the most competent cops eventually get sidelined, punished, or straight up quit in moral protest...
It is copaganda, but by the last season post-COVID and post-Floyd, you can feel the wind completely fall out of their sails. They try to wrap up the story quickly while acknowledging the ongoing horrors, and they do their best to recognize the role they played in romanticizing law enforcement by making it clear that everyone on the squad is disillusioned and disturbed by the system.
Several of them flat out quit, and they have an incredible scene of corruption in action where they make it clear that fixing the NYPD through its own internal buearacracy is literally impossible.
Still copaganda for most of the show's run, and also absolutely a genuinely good comedy.
I don't know. If anything shows how blatantly corrupt cops are, it is that show.
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It can be both
I don't disagree
Fantasy comedy
Much like The West Wing
Edit: not that it's much of a comedy, but it's definitely a fantasy about how the executive branch should work if we had halfway ethical and competent people working there.
Watched it all again last year. Love me some competency porn.
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... what?
They're replying to your lemmy post from a Mastodon instance. It just looks like they're tagging you. Just think of it as a Twitter reply
I had no idea mastodon was even plugged into Lemmy. Thanks for the clarification <3
All the fediverse stuff is pretty well plugged into each other, how well they interact is another matter though. I'm wishing for the day when federated ID happens so the same ID can be used on multiple platforms.
Apart from posts from lemmy instances not appearing as hashtags on mastodon (afaik), despite posts on mastodon appearing in the hastaged communities, not removing the #s and @s is also something I don't like about the current lemmy/mastodon implementations
The @s and #s are because Mastodon clients usually add them automatically and the person did not remove it, but they are not part of the integration implementation.
Like this comment is from Mastodon.
Oh lol
Then I should patch my client to manually remove those