Random Question

[scooby doo love]

Do you guys watch "Cops"? I mean, I know you guys work in LE, but on your off duty days when it's on do you sit and watch it? If you do, Do you find interesting and similar to real life police work? Do you like it or do you think it is "stupid"?

[InTheEnd]

I watch it if nothing else is on. It is real life policework. They wont show you the many hours of boredom that come along with the job.

[TX-LEO]

Do you guys watch "Cops"? I "?

NO.

[kazz]

No . . . . but they have started a similar show here in Australia, boring as watching paint dry. And if your 8 - 10 or 12 hour shift was all like an episode of COPS you'd clean up the streets in no time and put yourself out of work!!! :p

[Hop]

Nope. Better entertainment on the tube!

[Lawson]

I watch COPS 'cause Ive been watching COPS since I was like 5. Ive seen some stuff on there that I've tried on the road, some of it working, some of it not. But it's nice to see how officers do the job from around the country.

[Zeis96]

I've been watching it for years. I wish they would come film here. The viewers would get to see things like, shooting a deer that didn't die after being struck by a vehicle, rounding up a stray dog, or running the local kids off the parking lots that prohibit loitering. You know, "real" police work. :rolleyes:

[hitnrun]

I watch the newer episodes. The old ones drive me crazy for some reason. I watched a lot of COPS before I got into LE. What others have said here is true...the tv show is NOTHING like real life police work (day to day).

In Sacramento County, COPS crews filmed for about six months just to get enough footage for six 30 minute episodes! And Sac County is pretty much run and gun.

There was a scene in one of the Sac County episodes where they showed a deputy in a foot pursuit and then the camera cut away to the "pig pile" where the suspect was already being taken into custody. The camera guy couldn't keep up and jump the fences during the foot pursuit, so, they had the deputy involved reenact the foot pursuit so that the cameras could get some footage. It kind of makes you wonder how much of the other stuff isn't "real time" footage. OH well.

[Officer20]

I used to watch it often, I now watch it rarely. I find that I get nervous for the officer when I see them doing things that put them at risk. I worry enough about my own guys, I can't sit there and worry about something that happened 6 months ago.

Also, we use episodes of COPS sometimes at our shift briefings on occaision as a "what went wrong/what was done wrong."

[magicman]

No.

[Taz_bb2]

Yup, and World Scariest Police Chases, Hot Pursuit, and 48 Hours (the show.)