That’s The Story

Headlong: Running from COPS

Topic / Pineapple Street Media / Dan Taberski

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

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

We get our hands on raw, unedited footage of COPS and finally answer the question we've been asking throughout our 18-month investigation: How real is COPS?

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0:00.0	This episode of Running from Cops has some intense scenes of policing on camera that might be upsetting to some listeners.
0:06.9	Thanks for listening.
0:09.0	Previously, on Running from Cops.
0:12.4	How real is Cops?
0:15.0	Cops is as real as we can get it.
0:17.7	I see it as a documentary.
0:20.0	Do they accurately portray the profession of policing? I don't think
0:25.2	they endeavor to do that. What I see is a police department as a political organization trying to
0:32.1	get control of the message. It shows what we're dealing with. It shows what society's dealing with.
0:38.3	How does showing the victim or the perpetrator
0:40.2	on the worst day of their life with a camera in their face
0:43.6	helped the situation at all?
0:45.2	Somebody's got to explain that to me.
0:47.4	Cops is a document of what it is.
0:49.8	You can't question it.
0:51.0	It is what it is.
0:54.7	Episode six, that's the story.
1:01.4	Northside.
1:03.1	All right. Your people all cleared out. You're okay?
1:06.5	This is Cops. Season one. Episode 5, Broward County, Florida.
1:12.2	This episode was shot in 1989.
1:14.6	It's one of the first few of the show, before reality shows were even a thing.
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