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    How to watch police shows in the age of Black Lives Matter | Elias Rodriques

    The crime genre glorifies police violence, but should we ban such shows, or reappraise them with a critical eye?
    by Elias Rodriques Jun 12, 2020 4 minutes
    A still from US reality TV show Cops, which has been pulled after 32 series. Photograph: Bryan R Smith/AFP/Getty Images

    In a 2017 episode of , the acclaimed police comedy show, Sergeant Terry Jeffords (played by Terry Crews) is racially profiled while walking in his own neighbourhood. He later tells his captain, Raymond Holt (played by Andre Braugher), who is also black, that he wants to lodge a complaint. Captain Holt responds that he should not; doing so will make it difficult for him to advance in the NYPD, which comes with the prospect of making an even bigger change. This is also the route, Holt explains, that he took: he endured years of abuse as the only black, gay detective to become police

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