Posted on 02/19/2014 4:08:29 PM PST by CedarDave
Mayor Richard Berry cant keep the COPS television crews out of the Albuquerque area.
But he made it clear on Tuesday that he doesnt want to see the citys name, its officers or its neighborhoods on the show.
Producers can also forget about help from Albuquerques film office.
City attorneys fired off letters Tuesday to Bernalillo County Sheriff Dan Houston and Langley Productions Inc. to make the citys position clear.
It has been more than a decade since COPS was filmed in Albuquerque and Bernalillo County.
Then-Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chávez banned COPS from working with APD in 2001, and Berry has continued that ban.
But Houston announced the return of COPS last week and said it would be a good way to show off the excellent work of deputies. Langley Productions is the production house behind COPS, which airs episodes on Spike TV.
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That was classic!
That I don’t know, it seems like it’s the cops own idea, but I’m not sure.
I think hubby watches that sometimes. He watches them all!
Here in Maine, they air “COPS Re-loaded” every weekday for an hour at 5 PM on the CW.
COPS Reloaded is shortened, slightly edited versions of what originally aired on COPS. The banter you mentioned about why each deputy of police officer decided to become a cop has been edited out of each segment.
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I went to high school with Rich Berry. He graduated a year ahead of me from beautiful Beatrice High School in Beatrice, Ne. He was a nice guy and a really good athlete back in high school. Haven’t seen him since college though.
Kinda weird that he is the mayor of Albequerque. Didn’t see that coming.
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