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Exactly. They're just whining that the "police can do no wrong" sentiment born out of CSI/NCIS/Law and Order and post-9/11 first responder worship is coming to
by potato3732842 2y ago
Exactly. They're just whining that the "police can do no wrong" sentiment born out of CSI/NCIS/Law and Order and post-9/11 first responder worship is coming to a close.
And of course the public deference to them over that period enabled a bunch of shoddy work and that shoddy work is what underpins the current generation of "ignored X" and "framed Y" type true crime and so the pendulum of public perception swings back toward where it was in the 1990s when the public was becoming aware that police had, roughly speaking, spent the prior decades framing a bunch of black guys because that was easier than solving crimes.
Edit: Now that I think about it it's kind of a condemnation of the industry how quickly the pendulum swung.
- recursivecaveat 2y agoI have been watching a little of daytime TV cop stuff while spending time with my older family. In one particular 44 minute episode the 4 plot lines are: solving a hate-crime by deceiving a suspect during interrogation into confessing; an object lesson that you shouldn't film cops lest you make them too nervous to arrest people, with tragic consequences; a 3 layered defense against the idea of an old boys club, in which even the would-be racist cop is bait-N-switched into being color-blind; and a Medicare fraud investigation. I felt like I was having an out-of-body experience it was so surreal in its overtness.