Pretty much the worst thing about The Wire is that I can't get past cops giving a shit about anything
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That's an odd take, since I think the show makes it pretty clear that it is a tiny minority of cops which actually gives a shit, and of those and even tinier minority are actually capable at their jobs and they are getting hassled about it from every senior officer all the while.
What? Have you actually seen the show? Most of the cops are assholes, especially up the chain of command who just want to make themselves look good. Several examples of them just wanting to close the case without caring about the truth.
It’s actually one of the reasons why I love the show so much. Even the “good cops” have their own issues to deal with.
I’d say daredevil does the best version of portraying police. A few good apples while most get radicalized.
One night I walked home from work, in my work uniform, and some old guy with a personalized license plate asked me if I wanted to get coffee, at 9 pm. I was like, um no, and you're weird, and then I went home and thought about it and decided to report it, wasn't that long after the Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo serial killings of young girls in my city. The cop who showed up to take my statement asked me what I had been wearing, and then called me back to tell me he was just a lonely old guy looking for someone to talk to. Like who on Betty White's green earth pulls over to try and convince a stranger to get into their car at 9 pm, a young woman many decades your junior, and thinks that's normal? Fucking cops.
ACAB every day but don't you dare come for Mariska Hargitay. 1) we all know SVU is fiction (that's why they say it every episode), and most of us are aware it's mostly fantasy and also 2) svu often points out the shortcomings of other non-them svu teams and the NYPD in general.
Mariska is a gem irl. Let me enjoy my fantasy cop show.
(It has to be said: this is a tongue-in-cheek comment and I understand the point that was being made in the meme, I just really love svu ok.)
Okay but, hear me out—are we not going to look back one day and feel that it was really fucking weird that we had a cop show dedicated entirely to rape? Maybe I’m thinking about it all wrong but that seems exploitative in a weirdly fetishistic way
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I encourage everyone to watch Skip Intro's series on Copaganda: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2ac8vr2QyTdlWwd8OQIc1it6bAfMGPPC (also available on Nebula)
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they leveled up
So more like Daredevil: Born Again.
I mean, they still have the commissioner being this impossibly pure naïve good guy instead of being fully complicit in covering everything up, which is what would be (and already is) the case IRL.
Don't get me wrong - the show's clearly a step in the right direction, but it's still got too much of an "a few bad apples" vibe for me.
I posted this on FB today and my friend that works in the domestic violence shelter system told me she'll tell me over coffee how many cops show up to harass women staying at the shelter.
Yeah, shows make cops look better than they are for sure, but they totally do the opposite by accident a lot too, just in stupider (and still realistic) ways
another murder? That's the 12th this month, Jimmy! We'd better start looking into this!
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