Television is a powerful medium. What role do police dramas and comedies play in perpetuating institutional racism and unpunished police brutality?
. Early Hollywood needed the help of law enforcement to cover up the misdeeds of stars and grant permits for filming in public spaces. As a result, the police became both the inspiration for shows and heavily involved in their messaging. Famously, the scripts for late 1960s series “Dragnet” were vetted by police before filming.
Decades of cop shows have coalesced into a pattern, particularly in network procedurals like “Law & Order,” “FBI” and “CSI.” Heroic cops, federal agents or forensic techs are the main characters, and each week they tackle a new case. The victims and suspects are, by definition, disposable guest stars whose names you can barely remember .
TNT’s “The Closer” saw Kyra Sedgwick’s deputy police chief Brenda Leigh Johnson bend the rules of Miranda rights to get her suspects to confess, while villainizing an Internal Affairs investigator. On CBS’s “Elementary,” “police consultants” Sherlock and Watson conduct warrantless searches and hand over fruit of the poisonous tree to detectives who make arrests using illegally obtained evidence.
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