![]() In tandem with all that, we’ve seen critics and culture writers (including Vulture’s Kathryn VanArendonk and Angelica Jade Bastién) revisit the role of film and TV in cheerleading police and validating their self-image as a blue wall standing between civilization and savagery.įrom its debut on Fox in 1989, John Langley and Malcolm Barbour’s Cops was an essential part of that image, unveiling rough-and-tumble footage of officers confronting drug dealers, drunk drivers, domestic abusers, and other enemies of peace. The nonstop stream of images of police beating, teargassing, pepper-spraying, and driving vehicles into unarmed protesters has elevated a widespread movement to defund the police, or at least rethink what they do and the amount of money they siphon from tapped-out city budgets. In the past two weeks, millions have marched all over the world to protest police brutality and the murder of George Floyd, often in the face of armed officers in riot gear whose attempts to pen them in or shut them down has escalated into mayhem. The cable channel didn’t go into detail about why it pulled the plug - “ Cops is not on the Paramount Network, and we don’t have any current or future plans for it to return,” a spokesperson said - but the timing has a whiff of historical verdict anyway. Cops, one of the longest continuously running series in TV history, had to answer the question posed in its theme song after getting canceled by Paramount Network yesterday.
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