Posted on 06/04/2020 7:48:09 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Like many other industries, entertainment companies have issued statements of support for the protests against racism and police brutality now filling America’s streets. But there’s something Hollywood can do to put its money where its social media posts are: immediately halt production on cop shows and movies and rethink the stories it tells about policing in America.
For a century, Hollywood has been collaborating with police departments, telling stories that whitewash police shootings and valorizing an action-hero style of policing over the harder, less dramatic work of building relationships with the communities cops are meant to serve and protect. There’s a reason for that beyond a reactionary streak hiding below the industry’s surface liberalism. Purely from a dramatic perspective, crime makes a story seem consequential, investigating crime generates action, and solving crime provides for a morally and emotionally satisfying conclusion.
The result is an addiction to stories that portray police departments as more effective than they actually are; crime as more prevalent than it actually is; and police use of force as consistently justified. There are always gaps between reality and fiction, but given what policing in America has too often become, Hollywood’s version of it looks less like fantasy and more like complicity.
There’s no question that it would be costly for networks and studios to walk away from the police genre entirely. Canceling Dick Wolf’s “Chicago” franchise of shows would wipe out an entire night of NBC’s prime-time programming; dropping “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and a planned spinoff would cut even further into the lineup.
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I learned a lot from Cops.
The perps first words are always the same:
I dindu nothing!
Homo sapiens invented language to lie.
The scary thing is, this class of citizenry clearly thinks this kind of bio is impressive AND of interest to their Blue State tribal members in a kind of “aren’t I just FABULOUS!” sort of way.
Oh! I got a brilliant idea for a show JB baby. Let’s ditch these cop shows, and, and... I got it JB baby. A show about Antifa and their trials and tribs, ya know. Yeah, we could have love interest there JB. Romance amidst burning buildings. Action AND romance. Waddaya think JB baby?
Media: Down with conservatives!!
Hollywood: Yeah!!
Media: Down with Christianity!!
Hollywood: Yeah!!
Media: Down with Wypipo!!
Hollywood: Yeah!!
Media: Down with America!!
Hollywood: Yeah!!
Media: Down with Trump!!
Hollywood: Yeah!!
Media: Down with Hollywood!!
Hollywood: .... wait, wut??
Don’t need a show. We got a whole victim party. Democratic.
For a century, The Washington Post has been collaborating with the communist agenda, telling stories that whitewash left wing sabotage and valorizing an action-hero style of left wing 'activism."
The result is an addiction to stories that portray police departments as more effective than they actually are; crime as more prevalent than it actually is; and police use of force as consistently justified. There are always gaps between reality and fiction, but given what policing in America has too often become, Hollywood’s version of it looks less like fantasy and more like complicity.
The result is an addiction to stories that portray communist operatives as less toxic than they actually are and left wing sabotage as consistently justified. There are always gaps between reality and fiction, but given what left wing sabotage in America has too often become, the Washington Post's version of it looks less like fantasy and more like complicity.
The police shows on now are preposterous anyway. I don’t watch them and I sure as hell wouldn’t mind having the go away.
The last time a mouth and teeth like that was seen,
it had a bridle on it.
LOL. That’s very funny.
F Communist Chinese Walmart. Buy American.
They’re not taking Police Academy away from me!
Yeah America needs more BET and MTV gangbanger vids
I just might have to watch Dirty Harry this afternoon.
Well, Alyssa, who you gonna call after some thug breaks into your home and steals all your stuff, or rapes you or your child (if you have one)?
Are you going to call the police?
I guess that option is off the table.
My favorite is the Jesse Stone series on Hallmark. I bet we won’t see them on there again...
I noticed that my favorite cop show, “Blue Bloods” took a sharp turn to the left this season. Very disappointing.
Someone should make a police show that actually follows the Constitution. Wow, would it be boring.
I was on a plane with a coworker and we were talking about cops. I told him that if you’re not a guy with a mullet, wearing a white tank top, busted for beating your wife in Las Vegas, you’re good to go.
When we got to our hotel, I turned on the TV in my room and flipped a couple channels on. COPS was on. They had a dude in a white tank top with a mullet in handcuffs. They were talking about him beating up on his wife. To cap it off, the camera pulled back to show the Las Vegas police car.
How true.
Leni
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