In opening statements in the joint trial of a current and a former police officer in Aurora, Colorado, defense attorneys said the two followed department protocol.
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The show literally lets the police they ride with have final say on the editing, so there is never anything that makes cops look bad, or makes their baseless assumptions look anything but correct.
Even if the person is actually innocent, which, IIRC, has lead to at least one lawsuit against the TV show for portraying them in a far worse way than the situation was in reality and making them look guilty to boot, when they were in fact innocent, all to make the cops look good and justified.
Cops TV show is the original Copaganda.
The show literally lets the police they ride with have final say on the editing, so there is never anything that makes cops look bad, or makes their baseless assumptions look anything but correct.
Even if the person is actually innocent, which, IIRC, has lead to at least one lawsuit against the TV show for portraying them in a far worse way than the situation was in reality and making them look guilty to boot, when they were in fact innocent, all to make the cops look good and justified.