Fucking hell, copaganda is one of the most idiotic brainrot internet concepts I've had the displeasure of seeing to date.
Get the fuck over yourselves.
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I will admit I watch code blue cam sometime for the same reason I’ll watch judge Alex clips or divorce court clips. It’s kinda fun watching the chaos.
Actual police in small towns are way closer to Reno 911 than Law & Order.
Reno 911 is also copaganda
The word copaganda is a copaganda. Makes me think cops are like ninja turtles when they are not.
Really? I'm not saying you're wrong, but I've always thought Reno 911 made cops look like incompetent assholes.
I 100% guarantee you there are very proper, professional teams of investigators who do prosecute rape thoroughly.
For women with rich dads.
*white women with rich dads
FTFY
I strongly dislike cop shows. Never been a fan of the gangster aesthetic. Can sometimes tolerate superhero stuff but it's not really my thing.
I was shocked at how much I enjoyed Gotham.
Is the Wire a "cop show"?
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.
I've got a buddy that worked out of the same precinct the show supposedly takes place in. He obviously can't stand any aspect of the show.
Hates it? Why? Because it’s completely unrealistic?
Because Fillions too pretty
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
I'm pretty sure anyone who becomes a cop to "reform it from the inside" will either be corrupted or pushed out. There've been a couple high profile cases of cops trying to reform, and they were rewarded with prizes like being shot in the head or having dead rats left in their mailboxes.
There was also a guy who was forcibly committed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Schoolcraft#Raid_and_involuntary_commitment
Oh, I didn't know about this one. Thanks for the link. Adding it to my mental dossier on police bullshit.
while agree, they can only do that with so many cops at a time... What if, in a larger city, the entire graduating class of police academy is extremely morally motivated, and grew up inspired to be a by-the-book, actually good cop? They couldn't fuck all of them up.
also, Serpico was a really good movie...
....
all i'm saying is: it could be doing more good as inspiration, than bad as copaganda... i dunno... could be... maybe...
I mean, technically true in a "picture a spherical frictionless cow" kind of sense, but not something you're going to find in real life. Most people are susceptible to corruption. Cops have a lot of power, and we all know the saying about power corrupting.
On top of that, I'm pretty sure much of the training they're getting to be cops is bad. They don't spend nearly enough time on deescalation, I think , for example.
A guilty pleasure of mine is the bodycam footage channels on YouTube, its surprising how negatively/self-defeating some people react to police interactions. I steer clear of channels that have serious harm to the suspects, shootings and whatnot, but my job has me interact frequently with intoxicated or distressed community members and seeing how they process stressful situations is interesting.
These channels are copaganda but still, somewhat enjoyable and some deescalation techniques police use when employed gently have helped me with setting boundaries in customer interactions. I also feel like learning what not to do when interacting with police is helpful for me if I ever get pulled over, etc. Midwest Safety and Lens of Law are two that are more ethically run and primarily use FOIA requested bodycam footage.
What's really surprising to me is how patient most cops are. I always said I couldn't be a cop because my temper would involve beating dumbshits with a baton.
Look, I hate pigs far more than most of you guys. And I have personal experiences/reasons going back decades. But sometimes watching my wife's cop show I'm screaming, "Just beat his fucking ass!"
Same goes for judges. Spent a night or two watching sovcits in court. Heysus, were I a judge I would bounce them out on their ear the second they starting talking that shit.
In case I get called a boot licker, and I will, here's my latest cop story.
For brevity let's just say I had words with my MAGA neighbor. No threats, well, except for him stomping down the street to kick my ass and me quietly walking inside for my Colt .45. This motherfucker call the cops on me! (First one to call wins. Every. Time. Remember that. I should have called first, but didn't think some yelling would come to that. Fucking MAGA pussy.)
Pigs show up dressed in their finest Hugo Boss black and one fat fuck is trying to get me to talk. I would not, except to state that no threats were exchanged and that's all he needs to know. Pig threatens to get a warrant and arrest me for "causing a public disturbance" if I don't allow him to violate my 5th amendment right to STFU. I STFU, nothing happened, because of course it didn't. Because I STFU.
Yeah totally agree, even the most hardcore customer service falls far short of what cops have to deal with fairly regularly. I've never called the cops on a customer and only once or twice has it come close, they have a totally different set of interpersonal boundaries they work within.
I've also never been lucky enough to never have had any issues with cops myself apart from a few speeding tickets, I have usually lived in low crime areas and don't belong to a more at-risk group that gets undue attention. With society changing so much these days I expect things to worsen, police could become more menacing to me or people near me in the future and I find some comfort in studying effective ways of interacting with them, and avoiding conflict with them.
I can respect how hard their job is while having deep concerns for a) the laws they enforce, b) how they are told to enforce them, c) a significant number of bad actors in the departments and leadership, d) a toxic policing culture pervasive in most areas, e) the current culture of gamification of sending the law after people you disagree with, etc...
Occasionally I speak briefly with them in my line of work and have mentioned bodycam youtube to a few of ]them. They seem aware of it and some watch it, some don't, I figure anything that gives them more reason for self examination is a good thing, but I can also understand that some of them wouldn't want to relive work over again on their downtime.
The irony with the punisher skull is that he loathed crooked cops, and they’re the ones who love the symbol the most.
The new daredevil tv show goes into this
Cause they know he isn't real
I mean, John Oliver did an entire breakdown on Law & Order on Last Week Tonight. Worth the watch.
Same with CSI and... [unpopular opinion] Brooklyn 99.
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.
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.
I don't know. If anything shows how blatantly corrupt cops are, it is that show.
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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.
pretty much every modern law enforcement tv show is copaganda.
Dick Wolf has made bank from it.
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.
Or just who they don’t like/want to see put away. How many times cops focus on one person because they incorrectly assume they’re the guilty person, so they keep them in interrogation for 15hrs, emotionally and physically abuse them, threaten everything they have and their entire life, lie, manipulate, and just completely wear the person down until they falsely confess? It’s a grossly common problem. And then once they’re in the death trap maze that is the legal system, their life is basically ruined. But those cops get a pat on the back and they move on with their lives. While an innocent person rots away
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..."
The one written by a crime historian, with help from a retired homicide detective
Go figure it paints the most realistic picture
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.
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.
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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