Why Hollywood loves cop stories

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🗓️ 12 June 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Alyssa Rosenberg on 100 years of police in pop culture and why we need to rethink cop stories on TV. And, fashion critic Robin Givhan on the symbolism of clothing on Capitol Hill this week.

Shut down all police movies and TV shows. Now.

Dragnets, Dirty Harry and dying hard: 100 years of the police in pop culture.

Congress’s kente-cloth spectacle was a mess of contradictions.

George Floyd’s brother came to Washington to speak. But his power was in the silences.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:04.8	Hey, it's Ross Helderman from the Post-Fulley.
0:07.8	How are you?
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0:10.8	Hey, it's Dave Farrant, the Post-Fulley.
0:12.3	Have you got a seat?
0:13.3	This is Post Reports.
0:14.9	I'm Martin Powers.
0:16.2	It's Friday, June 12.
0:23.5	Today, the past and future of Hollywood's love affair with law enforcement.
0:29.0	And the symbolism of clothes on Capitol Hill this week.
0:36.3	You've probably got emails from every business you've ever given your email to letting you
0:40.7	know that they think Black Lives Matter.
0:43.0	But unlike say, I'll just take up in New York, which sent me one of those emails.
0:46.8	The entertainment industry actually has something immediately within their purview that they
0:50.8	can do if they want to change the conversation around policing in America.
0:54.1	Being this is a 44-magic, the most powerful handgun in the world and would blow your head clean
1:01.5	off.
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