[ SECRET POST #2811 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2811 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I think it depends on the time period it was created. In the '50s and '60s there was...uh, Dragnet and Adam-12 stuff like that. Which was good in many procedure respects but paaaaiiiiinfully conservative and stodgy in its politics. Then, there was all the turmoil and racial issues in the late 1960s, and things changed. I recently read some really interesting articles about how in the 1970s and '80s, one of the only way to attract a liberal/young audience and portray cops as sympathetic at the same time was to go the "renegade badasses, fuck the law" and have the main characters needing to fight rampant stupidity and corruption in their own department route, because that was politically coded as "yeah, the police departments in general *are* crap like you've been seeing in all the riots and brutality and shit on the news, but Not All Cops are bad!" The exception was probably Hill Street Blues, but it were never as popular as Miami Vice (which ran at around the same time), for example.

Then in the late '90s and 2000s that "lol, all police are shit" started becoming more popular and that's probably the worst of it because it enforced the dichotomy between "lol bumbling morons" and "fascist mindless tools".