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As a connoisseur of the TV show COPS I have noticed that a lot of times they add sound clips of radio traffic. I know this because often you hear the same clip on different shows, or you'll hear the dispatcher talking and it will suddenly cut to a different dispatcher talking about something totally different. Does filling the show with continuous radio transmissions make it seem more exciting? I never understood why they'd do this.

I noticed this as well...I think it is filler, added in usually during the onscene footage to make it seem a little more chaotic. There was one on just now about a disturbance at a hospital...turns out a belligerant man with a cut finger was refused service because he would not calm down. They had constant radio traffic...you would have thought they were at Ground Zero on 9/11.

I was thinking the same think. I noticed it but could never figure out why they would do that.

I've never noticed it

I don't think ive noticed it. NOW I have noticed the sound effects on "Worlds Wildest Police Chases"

Where you are in the choppen, and an accident occours because of the chase... you can barely hear the chopper blades, BUT when the accident happens... the accident is REALLY loud, and the fact that most of them sound exactly the same. Anyone notice that?

Also notice on WWPC cars that 'screech' as they pass a slower moving car without actually turning. Apparently the near miss causes some kind of screeching noise... ;)

And the most annoying of all... You know how they have the same guy doing the voiceovers for nearly every chase... The country over... Well they tried the same cheesy voiceover technique on British videos, and they have some stupid-accented 'Wing Commander' type saying things like; "Oh my word, he really is driving rarther farst!!!"

This is on videos that I saw in the original "Police Stop" like 13 years ago with PC Stamp, so I've already heard the real soundtrack - all helecopter whine and radio voiceover of; "Left at Waterloo Steet, Left at Waterloo street. Subject running into the cinema, into the cinema"

I don't think ive noticed it. NOW I have noticed the sound effects on "Worlds Wildest Police Chases"

Where you are in the choppen, and an accident occours because of the chase... you can barely hear the chopper blades, BUT when the accident happens... the accident is REALLY loud, and the fact that most of them sound exactly the same. Anyone notice that?

they add a whole lot of siren noises too.

I know why they do it. They do it to cover radio traffic when they run DLs and such.

Ive notice the soundovers quite a bit too. There is one really common one that i have heard on cops, as well as some police shows on discovery. Sounds kinda like "fire dispatch, point 141" best guess. My personal fav is when you hearing tires screech and cars peeling out and the chase is going along an old dirt road.

I was told it was because certain department express concern over their radio traffic and it's security..

now this doesn't make a whole lot of sense as I myself own three Bearcat Scanners, maybe they just don't want people to see the actions taken by the officers along with the 10 codes and what not...

But still, doesn't make sense..

They ofter cover the faces of undercover detectives or plainclothes officers as well..

Is this newer eps of cops, or older ones? I haven't notice it. I've noticed sound dropouts when confidential information is spoken out loud/on radio, like discusson the name of a victim or suspect...

"So, who did this to you?"
"John (silence). He lives at 1287 (silence) street."

I know why they do it. They do it to cover radio traffic when they run DLs and such.

That's exactly what I was going to say.