STOP 👏 MAKING 👏 SHOWS 👏 ABOUT 👏 COPS

@stevietrix or maybe shows about real cops, corrupt cops, nazi cops, boring cops, horrible cops

@rotatingskull @stevietrix the few not entirely terrible cops being totally ineffectual to do anything to challenge the state of affairs, and just getting more and more disillusioned every episode until you see them become the terrible cops themselves.

@KitRedgrave @stevietrix This is sort of Homicide: Life On The Streets actually.

@rotatingskull @stevietrix never heard of that one...

like, one could really drive home exactly how terrible that job is, how nobody ought to want to work it and how ignoble it is. that people fall into it because they need a paycheck or they're intentionally propping up a system that benefits them at the expense of others...

but it would probably get misread and not have the intended effect, because too many people just don't want to think that way.

@KitRedgrave @rotatingskull I think the problem with even a lot of the “critical” shows (eg, The Shield, The Wire, Homicide, etc.) is that the absolute limit is usually “get better cops” or “improve the system” never “ABOLISH THE FUCKING POLICE”

@stevietrix @KitRedgrave People are dying of poison. What we need is better poison.