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Good Cop/Bad Cop: Why cop shows make for complicated entertainment
CBC Radio
Tapestry
November 26, 2021
Following the George Floyd protests across the world last year, television shows about police officers have become, for many viewers, a lot more complicated to watch.
Many of these shows, often known as police procedurals, follow the same basic formula regardless of whether they're set in Miami (CSI: Miami) or work for the Navy (NCIS) or star a fake psychic (Psych): A crime is committed, and by the end of the episode the crime is resolved.
The challenge is, according to Tiara Sukhan, an assistant professor at Western University, that the image these series paint about reality can be very different from the reality we actually live in (continue reading).
