Cop shows return to primetime slots with new woke storylines looking policing after George Floyd
Daily MailTop cop shows have ditched violent arrests, officers breaking into homes and dramatic police chases for woke storylines in the wake of George Floyd's death. In the latest Law & Order spinoff which premiered in 2021, Organized Crime, the character Detective Elliot Stabler - long known for his use of excessive force - is depicted learning to police with less aggressive tactics Left, a clip from the show Cops before George Floyd was murdered, right, a shot from the show after the murder East New York co-creator William Finkelstein told The Times the idea for the show was directly born out of creating a cop show in the post George Floyd world. Cops has returned to the airwaves after being axed a month after George Floyd was murdered, but with many of the criminal shown being white instead of black Critics of cop shows have long argued that the genre perpetuates stereotypes, with ride-along shows pushing an image of crisply uniformed white officers doing battle with perpetual criminal black people living in slums and poverty. In one episode of the latest season of Cops, a group of white officers chastise a 7-year-old white boy for locking his mother out of the house In October 2020, the Hollywood Reporter polled 50 showrunners about how they would create a cop show in the current climate, and the overwhelming responses referenced community policing, police reeducation, and ideas slanted at depicting officers as violent brutes.
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