James Lileks on the show that made us street savvy:
It is conceivable that sometime next year, the television show “COPS” could show the arrest of an adult whose mother was arrested while pregnant with him in the series’ first season 18 years ago. That’s “COPS.” And that’s a remarkably long TV run.
Pretty much nothing has changed since the debut. The guy in the squad car delivers a little cop wisdom (“I like helping people.... I’ve got a wife and kid.... This is a good city”), then hits the lights and speeds off to confront some tweaker so high on meth he makes a hummingbird look like a Galapagos tortoise.
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