Introducing: Running From COPS

Headlong: Running from COPS

Topic / Pineapple Street Media / Dan Taberski

Serial, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, True Crime

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

After 30 years on television, COPS has evolved into a constant messaging machine about policing in America. Running from COPS is the result of an 18-month investigation and delves deep into how the show actually gets made, how much control police departments really have over the final product, and the harrowing stories of the people who have ended up on camera. Subscribe for free and start listening April 23.

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0:00.0	Due to the graphic nature of this program, viewer discretion is advised.
0:07.0	In 1989, a new show popped up on primetime television that was like nothing anyone had
0:22.0	ever seen before.
0:25.4	The concept followed real police officers with video cameras as they arrest real citizens.
0:31.3	I would say that in the history of television as a pre-grand statement, there is no simpler,
0:36.9	better show than the format of cops.
0:40.7	Cops was the first real reality show.
0:43.9	Now, 30 years and over a thousand episodes later, not only is cops still on, it's everywhere.
0:50.2	On cable and syndication, it's on 15 sometimes 20 times a day.
0:54.8	Just this past week, it was on 70 times a constant drumbeat about policing in America.
1:02.3	Over the last 18 months, we investigated cops.
1:07.0	When I looked up, I had their likes just flashing on me like, I know it is not cops, but it
1:13.4	looked like cops.
1:15.2	Do they accurately portray the professional policing?
1:19.3	I don't think they endeavor to do that.
1:21.6	I went from having five guys to 25 guys overnight.
1:24.7	A rest in six, seven, eight guys a month or a rest in over 300 people a month.
1:28.7	I mean, it was crazy.
1:30.6	We dug in to how the producers make it, how much the police themselves control the content,
1:35.7	how much say the suspects have, and being on the show.
1:39.3	Why were they working so closely with the camera crew?
1:42.0	Why they have so much authority?
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