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The show that made us street savvy.(the Tube: Television ... that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night--Ray Bradbury)(Cops)(Television program review)
It is conceivable that sometime next year, the television show "COPS" could show the arrest of an adult whose mother was arrested while pregnant with him in the series' first season 18 years ago. That's "COPS." And that's a remarkably long TV run.
Pretty much nothing has changed since the debut. The guy in the squad car delivers a little cop wisdom ("I like helping people.... I've got a wife and kid.... This is a good city"), then hits the lights and speeds off to confront some tweaker so high on meth he makes a hummingbird look like a Galapagos tortoise.
Oh, the things you can learn from "COPS." Like, for instance:
* Young men think they can simplify their lives by leading police on a 30-mile chase that ends with the death of a perfectly innocent telephone pole.
* The arrest of someone for drug use always comes, cruelly, just when they had decided--that morning!--to seek treatment. Honest.
* And, by the way, that crack pipe don't never belong to nobody! (The show provides no assurance that the war on drugs will ever be won; on the other hand, the pathetic condition of the haggard addicts hardly suggests that drugs should be legalized.)
* People who load up their car with things like burglary tools and bales of marijuana can be reliably depended upon to have a busted tail light.
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