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Really? I'm not saying you're wrong, but I've always thought Reno 911 made cops look like incompetent assholes.

The word copaganda is a copaganda. Makes me think cops are like ninja turtles when they are not.

Hates it? Why? Because it’s completely unrealistic?

So many problems in all the other cop shows.

• Shooting at people running away
• The suspect is always guilty, we just have to prove it
• One bad cop per two seasons always from a different precinct

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.

It sounds like you've been luckier than most, because in my limited experience personally and my extensive viewing of YouTube videos, it's so clear that the vast majority of cops in the US are bad cops. Remember, good cops don't let bad cops do bad things. Bad things include intimidation, lies, crimes, and civil rights violations.

But what about patience? What if cops are only being patient because the law is not on their side? That doesn't really make them good cops, now does it. For example, if the cop pulls you over and asks you for your license and insurance, of course you have to present it. But you don't have to present it within 10 seconds. A cop might appear patient because they wait a minute or two, but actually state law probably requires them to do so.

I think it's also fun to depart from the law and to briefly consider basic morality. If a cop pulls you over and asks you questions, you don't have to answer any of them. How many cops tell you that before they start asking questions? None. They're trying to take advantage of the fact that you might not know about, or you might be scared to express your constitutional rights. And the law is on their side, but morality isn't. We should keep that in mind, because the goal might be or could be to make the country a better place, and not merely to follow Supreme Court rulings.

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.

I'd lean towards no. It's a crime show(?)

No clue, haven't seen it.

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