I can't bring myself to care about the effect of media on cops with any higher level of concern than other areas. TV and movies portray exceptionally poor mode

I can't bring myself to care about the effect of media on cops with any higher level of concern than other areas. TV and movies portray exceptionally poor models of most aspects of life, and are among the primary sources large swaths of the population model themselves after. I do it, you do it, everyone does. And we all lie to ourselves with the same lie we use for advertising: "Oh of course I know it's unrealistic and dramatized for affect (or deliberately manipulative), but it doesn't effect me.