I’m a Writer on Cop Shows. A Lot Doesn’t Sit Right With Me.
How does it feel to make police TV in 2020? Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. No one has done more topropagate the myth of the hero copthan the writers of internet-television police procedurals. Here, confessions from the writers, directors, and producers of these shows. Policing is presented as a morally good cause. We have heroes who are definitely molded after the shake-you-down, stop-and-frisk, throw-you-up-against-the-wall kind of cop....