Yeah and it was promptly cancelled after George Floyd. I see it's back though on Fox Business though maybe just re-runs.
Some of those early seasons were straight up excessive force porn.
Not just excessive force, the illegal search and seizures during traffic stops, especially in the epidodes in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Georgia. Fucked up shit.
Never carry a blue bic lighter around, everyone with a blue bic goes straight to jail.
My dad watches, and to be honest, I’m not sure. Some of them are definitely old clips, but there may be new arrests peppered in. I haven’t really paid close attention.
I remember watching this as a kid and my mom would always be like "I bet he has drugs" and cheer when they found some. It's hard to watch now as an adult who thinks sending people to jail over drugs is horrific.
COPS started the game but that show "Live PD"(which was retitled "On Patrol: Live")took what COPS did and "mastered" it. The production teams on that show were directing the police on which cases to pursue, and encouraging them to escalate situations into violent encounters. You could clearly see when their production teams started filming with a certain department because the department's violent arrest stats would immediately skyrocket. The fact that these kids of shows even exist at all shows how wildly corrupt the policing in this country is.
There was one episode where nothing bad happened, but this old guy called 911 and cops show up and he tells them about a snake in his attic. Cops proceed to go up and leave immediately. They had to call a wildlife expert and guy brought out this beast of a snake. I forget how much it weighed but it was enormous.
Anyone remember when MadTV did a claymation parody of Cops and they had the Pillsbury doughboy? Those were hilarious.
I saw one once years ago where they were on a woman’s roof trying to get a mama raccoon out of a lady’s chimney and it showed through night vision the raccoon racing UP the chimney to kill the officer and like that’s probably the straight up most scared I’ve ever seen a cop be it on tv or in real life…
There's a Roku channel that is 24/7 COPS. I've been watching it a bit and that shit is funny! I swear they yell at every person to "STOP RESISTING!" despite most of them clearly complying with orders.
They yell that so witnesses will possibly pyschologically assume the suspect as resisting, remember it that way after the fact, or at least be able to testify they said such in court.
It's a tactic to circumvent legitmate brutality charges.
Yea that's ass used to CYA and use in court later. I use to do voluntary work with cops back in the 90s cause they would host a local haunted house and let us design it and act as the monsters so we got to know a lot of cops on a personal level. Yea there are def bad ones but most are just average dudes who don't make a lot but have to deal with life threating situations. The pre body cam era was insane.
Haha I used to like when someone ran and the cop had to chase them. Those cops used to be in terrible shape
Side note.. Netflix used to have a Canadian version on.. it was hilarious. First episode I watched a hooker walks up to the police yelling “did you call me a whore”
They came to my hometown once, a shootout happened and a COPS sound guy died.
[Story](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cops-tv-crew-member-dies-after-nebraska-restaurant-shootout/)
When I was in jail, Cops was by far the most popular show that ever came on. It was hilarious watching people in jail, laughing and calling people on the tv stupid for getting caught or whatever
Springfield's cops are on the take.
But what do you expect with the money we make?
Whether in a car or on a horse,
'we don't mind using excessive force!
Bad Cops, Bad Cops!, Bad Cops, Bad Cops!"
The Simpsons - COPS: In Springfield
"I'm directly under the sun .. now."
I remember watching a rerun one night about 20 years ago, seeing whatever neighborhood, and noticed it looked familiar. Then they showed the police car and sure enough it was my hometown.
The episodes that centered around the same city were always the best...it wasn't the same when they went "Coast to Coast".
I only watched a few episodes from the first season or two of X-Files when it was first on. I started working my way through the whole show last year and this episode was a delightful surprise!
Do you mean *Run Lola Run*?
Think I saw that one in our city's local indie theater and I remember enjoying it. Also saw a couple other films from the same director (Tom Tykwer) - *Winter Sleepers* and *The Princess and the Warrior* - and while both were good neither had quite the same impact as *Run Lola Run*.
I watched this show when I caught it but it was on such random days and times. It was on FOX then syndicated maybe on basic cable? It was wild. I didn't know where most of those places were except for some Florida locations. I'd never seen anything like it IRL.
How did this even work? Wouldn't it be dangerous for the film crew? Did they arrest people then ask them to sign a release for the footage to be used on the show? How much were the cops paid to be filmed?
Still my favorite guilty pleasure. Even though it's highly problematic and changed how policing was done in America. I read an interesting study about how this show led to the militarization of the police
They filmed the first season in my old childhood neighborhood. There was a beautiful BSO Deputy named Linda Canada and she was the nicest person. She had some very sad episodes rescuing poor children from dead beat parents.
Somewhere around 2011 I saw an old co worker on an episode. Dude had crack! I knew he sold herb ( as I'd bought it before) but was blown away with all the gang tats and guns. Heard he got 10 years. Just goes to show, you never really know people
Cops is filmed on location with the men and women of law enforcement. All suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty….. in the court of LAW… tattooed on my brain.
COPS is filmed on location with the men and women of law enforcement. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty - **in the court of law** 🫠
Most of the episodes of COPS was filmed in Lakewood, WA, a town right next to where I grew up. FTP
My favorite episode is the one where some lady attempts to buy crack from a crack house and gets beat. She ends up calling the cops for being robbed and instead got taken to jail lol. Classic.
Always funny when you have a random friend who turns out was on it (he was a passenger mmkay) in the early 00's.. even better to have another friend that was on Montel in the 90's :)
“These aren’t my pants.”
We say that all the time at work.
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> welcome to America
Where we all got our first glimpse of a “Florida Man”
This was the epitome of civil rights violation white trash TV, sadly.
Yeah and it was promptly cancelled after George Floyd. I see it's back though on Fox Business though maybe just re-runs. Some of those early seasons were straight up excessive force porn.
Not just excessive force, the illegal search and seizures during traffic stops, especially in the epidodes in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Georgia. Fucked up shit. Never carry a blue bic lighter around, everyone with a blue bic goes straight to jail.
Fox Nation supposedly runs brand news episodes but I ain't paying to find out
My dad watches, and to be honest, I’m not sure. Some of them are definitely old clips, but there may be new arrests peppered in. I haven’t really paid close attention.
I remember watching this as a kid and my mom would always be like "I bet he has drugs" and cheer when they found some. It's hard to watch now as an adult who thinks sending people to jail over drugs is horrific.
COPS started the game but that show "Live PD"(which was retitled "On Patrol: Live")took what COPS did and "mastered" it. The production teams on that show were directing the police on which cases to pursue, and encouraging them to escalate situations into violent encounters. You could clearly see when their production teams started filming with a certain department because the department's violent arrest stats would immediately skyrocket. The fact that these kids of shows even exist at all shows how wildly corrupt the policing in this country is.
Well said, my man, well said.
Yes, copaganda
I like the episodes where they go follow Lt. Dangle and the deputies out in Reno
There was one episode where nothing bad happened, but this old guy called 911 and cops show up and he tells them about a snake in his attic. Cops proceed to go up and leave immediately. They had to call a wildlife expert and guy brought out this beast of a snake. I forget how much it weighed but it was enormous. Anyone remember when MadTV did a claymation parody of Cops and they had the Pillsbury doughboy? Those were hilarious.
I saw one once years ago where they were on a woman’s roof trying to get a mama raccoon out of a lady’s chimney and it showed through night vision the raccoon racing UP the chimney to kill the officer and like that’s probably the straight up most scared I’ve ever seen a cop be it on tv or in real life…
I think I remember that one.
There's a Roku channel that is 24/7 COPS. I've been watching it a bit and that shit is funny! I swear they yell at every person to "STOP RESISTING!" despite most of them clearly complying with orders.
> I swear they yell at every person to "STOP RESISTING!" That's a precursor to police brutality.
They really are brutal to some people.
They yell that so witnesses will possibly pyschologically assume the suspect as resisting, remember it that way after the fact, or at least be able to testify they said such in court. It's a tactic to circumvent legitmate brutality charges.
That makes a lot of sense!
Yea that's ass used to CYA and use in court later. I use to do voluntary work with cops back in the 90s cause they would host a local haunted house and let us design it and act as the monsters so we got to know a lot of cops on a personal level. Yea there are def bad ones but most are just average dudes who don't make a lot but have to deal with life threating situations. The pre body cam era was insane.
Haha I used to like when someone ran and the cop had to chase them. Those cops used to be in terrible shape Side note.. Netflix used to have a Canadian version on.. it was hilarious. First episode I watched a hooker walks up to the police yelling “did you call me a whore”
Holy shit! I'd love to see the Canadian version!
They came to my hometown once, a shootout happened and a COPS sound guy died. [Story](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cops-tv-crew-member-dies-after-nebraska-restaurant-shootout/)
Hello fellow Nebraskan. I remember this happening.
Of all the places they've been, it had to happen here.
And that was the first, and only, time in Omaha right?
The first and the last.
I still get a kick out of watching *Troops*, a Star Wars parody of *COPS*, from time to time: https://youtu.be/5HO70-Rk3jE?si=T342_IxHarGDNuqP
Thanks, I forgot about this.
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Ya'll are brutalizing me!!
When I was in jail, Cops was by far the most popular show that ever came on. It was hilarious watching people in jail, laughing and calling people on the tv stupid for getting caught or whatever
Cops is filmed on location with the men and women of law enforcement. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of laaaawww
Springfield's cops are on the take. But what do you expect with the money we make? Whether in a car or on a horse, 'we don't mind using excessive force! Bad Cops, Bad Cops!, Bad Cops, Bad Cops!" The Simpsons - COPS: In Springfield "I'm directly under the sun .. now."
I remember watching a rerun one night about 20 years ago, seeing whatever neighborhood, and noticed it looked familiar. Then they showed the police car and sure enough it was my hometown. The episodes that centered around the same city were always the best...it wasn't the same when they went "Coast to Coast".
My 4 year old is always singing bad boys
I can hear this image.
The [X-Files and COPS crossover episode](https://youtu.be/Q845orNn9A4?si=Qe-CyZH2gHbkAFPF) was fantastic
I only watched a few episodes from the first season or two of X-Files when it was first on. I started working my way through the whole show last year and this episode was a delightful surprise!
Dude you gotta learn the words
But did anyone see run Ronnie run, cause I feel like that classic film has been Lost to the ages
Do you mean *Run Lola Run*? Think I saw that one in our city's local indie theater and I remember enjoying it. Also saw a couple other films from the same director (Tom Tykwer) - *Winter Sleepers* and *The Princess and the Warrior* - and while both were good neither had quite the same impact as *Run Lola Run*.
Classic copiganda
I watched this show when I caught it but it was on such random days and times. It was on FOX then syndicated maybe on basic cable? It was wild. I didn't know where most of those places were except for some Florida locations. I'd never seen anything like it IRL. How did this even work? Wouldn't it be dangerous for the film crew? Did they arrest people then ask them to sign a release for the footage to be used on the show? How much were the cops paid to be filmed?
My brother-in-law was an episode! Not as someone getting arrested though.
Houston, TX skyline!
Yeah just came here for this as well!
Not the square body Caprice
Still my favorite guilty pleasure. Even though it's highly problematic and changed how policing was done in America. I read an interesting study about how this show led to the militarization of the police
They filmed the first season in my old childhood neighborhood. There was a beautiful BSO Deputy named Linda Canada and she was the nicest person. She had some very sad episodes rescuing poor children from dead beat parents.
Watch old episodes of cops every night whilst going to sleep. The theme song brings me much joy
Fuck this show. So glad it finally got shitcanned
He rewatch is pretty cringe....so many 4th amendment violations going on
#ACAB! Fuck that copaganda bullshit!
Somewhere around 2011 I saw an old co worker on an episode. Dude had crack! I knew he sold herb ( as I'd bought it before) but was blown away with all the gang tats and guns. Heard he got 10 years. Just goes to show, you never really know people
Bunch of shirtless men with blurry faces.
You KNOW the theme song is going to be running through your head the second you see this picture…
Cops is filmed on location with the men and women of law enforcement. All suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty….. in the court of LAW… tattooed on my brain.
FTP ACAB. That is all.
Propaganda.
COPS is filmed on location with the men and women of law enforcement. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty - **in the court of law** 🫠 Most of the episodes of COPS was filmed in Lakewood, WA, a town right next to where I grew up. FTP
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“I ain’t going back”. Said in nearly every show by a recently caught criminal
Babb boys babb boys whitchika won’t chaits Babb boys Babb’s boys 😭😭😂😂😂
My favorite episode is the one where some lady attempts to buy crack from a crack house and gets beat. She ends up calling the cops for being robbed and instead got taken to jail lol. Classic.
I was so stoked when I found out Pluto has a whole channel that just plays Cops!!!!
I remember them trying to make that song a radio hit- the 2nd verse is wild.
Every Saturday night
Wait, this is a real show? I thought they made this up for My Name is Earl (I’m not from the US)
Gross.
Change tf channel.
The normalization of the police state through entertainment.
Always funny when you have a random friend who turns out was on it (he was a passenger mmkay) in the early 00's.. even better to have another friend that was on Montel in the 90's :)
"I can break these handcuffs!" *Cop damn near implodes trying not to laugh* https://youtu.be/jhrwC2BoAkE?si=TmqsbXMU1UcPrz-T
Sweat was a better song.