'Cops' Canceled at Paramount Network

hollywoodreporter.com ^ | June 9, 2020 | Hollywood Reporter

[John W]

The show's 33rd season had been schedule to premiere on Monday, but no episode has aired on Paramount Network since at least June 1 as protests against police brutality and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement continued across the country.

[dynachrome]

Live PD will have to be banned now, also.

[wally_bert]

Sad and very likely true.

[2banana]

Get we get an American network for Americans?

[rintintin]

Interesting. Most of the perps weren’t black, they were lower class shirtless whites

[E. Pluribus Unum]

We have to out-Alinsky them.

“Black lives matter” is dog-whistle for “kill Whitey.”

Pass it on.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Interesting. Most of the perps weren’t black, they were lower class shirtless whites.

That's a lie! Some of them wore wife-beaters!

[Tennessee Nana]

Maybe they can replace that series with some culture rich family fare like “Looters”...

[monkeyshine]

Cops is cancelled! “whatcha gonna do?”

How about they just air the episodes where black cops beat up white perps?

[ontap]

It will probably be picked up by another network!!!

[ThomasNast]

The first several years of COPS were great. Then, a certain community (Can’t remember which one /s) demanded that they show fewer blacks as suspects. So then instead of exciting chases, there were more domestic violence episodes, where people over 50 would complain, “He called me a bitch,” and the other spouse would say, “She threw a beer at me.” Real exciting.
What the producers SHOULD have said was, “For every black suspect dealer there are a minimum of 4 black Under-Covers shown working the bust and 3 black uniforms shown protecting the community. But instead they buckled.

[plain talk]

Yep. Aka “white trash”

[Redcitizen]

Well now we know what the bad boys did. Riot, loot and commit crime.

[CatOwner]

I probably haven’t seen more than a few episodes, and that was in the early 1990s. If this ends up dinging Hollywood even more, go for it.

[OttawaFreeper]

I wonder if they would deem Dragnet and Adam 12 racist.

[17th Miss Regt]

The truth hurts!

[willyd]

That is by design, so no one gets the wrong impression. Also, Dem mayors don’t like their cities in the spotlight like that every week.

[a fool in paradise]

They figured why pay for body cam footage when you can just get up by freedom of information act

[jroehl]

This is the best post on this thread.

[Prolixus]

"Cops" has been cancelled. What else has been cancelled?

1. Attorney-client privilege (Trump/Cohen)
2. Due process (Justice Cavanaugh et alia)
3. Illegality of bills-of-attainder (Democrats are still working on special laws applying to Trump only)
4. Peaceful exchange of "power" (ended with the Obama Administration).
5. Respect for the FBI (ended with the Whitey Bulger fiasco and, of course, the Hillary Clinton email server fiasco)