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The cop ones in my country are pathetic. It's a small country with little crime so they don't really have any car chases or gunfights to film. Instead they make shows full of the most boring and mundane cop shit. Most of these shows are about traffic cops where you see them handing out speeding tickets, interspersed with interviews with cops saying things like "speeding next to a school in a residential area is very dangerous". No shit Sherlock. It is so pathetic they even made a show about mall cops once.
I honestly like finding those kinds of cop shows. Its like an escapism where a kid watches movies about functional families.
I'll watch and be thinking "that's right, let that person know about social responsibility, they shouldn't speed in school zones!".
I guess that's the appeal of these shows. They are boring, predictable and repetitive but you see justice being done in a non-complicated everyday setting, assuring you that everything is normal and that the powers that be are acting in your best interest.
German reality cop shows at this point have just branched to include like pretty much everyone who works for some sort of enforcement agency, tow truck drivers, pest control and private security, I suppose because there's only so many times you can watch some cop stop somebody cycling on the sidewalk and explaining to them how that's very unsafe and countering every "every time I ride on the road a lorry nearly flattens me, the fuck am I supposed to do you dicks" with "well that's also illegal"
The Finnish cop show was similarly pathetic. It kinda makes it feel even grosser to me when there's not even any spectacle, just someone being drunk in public being put on national TV for everyone to ogle.
At least it showed how little the cops actually do, lmao
Oh yes, they send the Australian border cop show here as well. It's 75% non-white people being punished for bringing food.
Ew... that one sounds especially vile. I don't know the format but I wouldn't be surprised if they went to great lengths to villify the victims to avoid people feeling sympathy for them.