Cop TV: The Extraordinary Untold Stories of Television Crime Shows

Discover why cop shows endure as America’s most telling—and un-cancellable—cultural mirror.

Synonymous with the advent of television, the reality is that cop shows—for better or worse—represent the collective social history of America and beyond. They are imperfect but otherwise immutable cultural artifacts that will one day, as they already do now, impart for future generations the often grim day-to-day realities of (chiefly) urban life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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