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shouldnt something about G4's cops 2.0 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.118.146.222 ( talk) 04:41, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
Was COPS ever filmed in Canada? I thought I remember seeing an episode based in Toronto. -- 209.226.183.16 02:55, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
They did have episodes in the United Kingdom. I do believe that their was an episode in Toronto once.
I did add constables to the list as they did have a couple of scences with one of the Tarrant County, TX preceints Constable's Office.
Constables...is there a part of the United States where this term is used to describe police officers? If not, should this word be used? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.73.82.69 ( talk • contribs)
Does anyone know what theme song Cops used before Bad Boys?
4:35pm, 6 March 2007
Does anybody know about forms for release or consent forms suspects sign to appear in episodes? They must sign something, as their likeness is being used in a 'for profit' format, so I imagine criminals agree to be shown on TV, and likely are paid for the appearance.
Seems pretty obvious to me there must be a release form, considering that some episodes have suspects with blurred faces, plus, if I were being arrested, I'd love to have an extra bill to post bail with.
Anyways, wondering if somebody knows more about this, it would be nice to include this in the article. TotalTommyTerror 20:21, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
That's something I've always wondered, too. HOW do they get suspects to sign releases, especially when some of them are in extremely embarrassing or humiliating positions? Is there any evidence that the producers pay off families and suspects? - 76.4.52.247 15:42, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
I've rated this article as start class. It contains some of the information you would expect but is missing some sections (see Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Television programs). I've rated the importance as mid because of the high number of other shows influenced by this one. To improve the article start adding some more sources.-- Opark 77 23:04, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
In the infobox to the right, it says that there are nearly 2,000 episodes aired (circa April 2007), and then in the introductory paragraph, it states a "milestone" of 650 episodes (circa 2006). There is surely a mistake one way or the other, or one of either of those numbers need to be specified. Thought I'd bring this to everyone's attention. Mattygabe 20:32, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
So this article contained a very large amount of unreferenced material. I have removed the gibberish and hid the stuff that is useful. I have also fixed all the messiness in line with the manual of style. Any new stuff, or any attempt to bring the hidden stuff back in, will need references. See WP:V, WP:ATT, WP:NOR. -- Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 01:39, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
It contains almost no information about the show and is 80% a list of parodies. Rubbish.
Atleast half of each show is chock full of cops committing all sorts of crimes - mainly assault and attempted murder. Where's the mention of that in this article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.100.229.240 ( talk) 01:49, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
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BetacommandBot ( talk) 06:06, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
I think a something that is notable about this series is that from the eighth season to the seventeenth season, the first two to three episodes those seasons were episodes regarding police enforcing the law during Mardi Gras. Since Katrina, the show has not covered Mardi Gras. -- Brian( view my history)/( How am I doing?) 03:04, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
I have no specific claims or facts to dispute, but I'm curious as to this article's sourcing. I go onto the official 'Cops' website and click on 'History' and it links here. It seems rather circular. Lord of the Ping ( talk) 03:09, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
3/9/2009 cops
COPS is an American documentary television series that follows police officers, constables, and sheriff's deputies during patrols and other police activities. It is one of the longest-running television programs in the United States and the second longest-running show on Fox. Created by John Langley and Malcolm Barbour, it premiered on Saturday March 11, 1989, and has aired 700 episodes as of November 10, 2007. It won the American Television Award in 1993, and has earned four Emmy nominations. [1] On September 30, 2007, COPS began its 20th season with a highlight episode called "20 Years Caught on Tape".
COPS is broadcast by Fox , and follows the activities of police officers by embedding camera crews with police units. The show's formula follows the cinéma vérité convention, with no narration or scripted dialog, depending entirely on the commentary of the officers and on the actions of the people with whom they come into contact.The show has followed officers in 140 different cities in the United States, and also has filmed in Hong Kong, London, and the former Soviet Union. Each episode is approximately 22 minutes in length, and typically consists of three segments, with each segment being one or two self-contained police incidents. The show is well known for its theme song, "Bad Boys", performed by reggae group Inner Circle.
History and background COPS was created by John Langley and his producing partner Malcolm Barbour. In 1983 Langley was working on Cocaine Blues, a television series about drugs in which every one seemed to enjoy South Florida. As part of his research he went on a drug raid with drug enforcement officers, and was inspired to create a show focusing on real-life law enforcement. In the late 1980s, after producing a series of live syndicated specials called American Vice: The Doping of a Nation with Geraldo Rivera, Langley and Barbour pitched the COPS show concept to Stephen Chao, a FOX programming executive who would one day become president of the Fox Television Stations Group and later USA Network. Chao liked the concept and pitched it to Barry Diller, then CEO of the FOX Network. As fate would have it, a Writers Guild of America strike was occurring at the time, and the network needed new material. An unscripted show that did not require writers would be ideal for FOX. The first episode aired in 1989, and featured the Broward County, Florida, Sheriff's Office. The original concept of the show was to follow officers home and tape their home lives along with their work. After a while this concept was deemed too artificial by Langley and was abandoned. Eventually, the format of three self-contained segments with no narrator, no music and no scripts would become the show's formula. The first segment is usually an action segment to hook the viewer, followed by two unrelated segments. It should also be noted that COPS ends each episode on the credits screen, using the line "132 and Bush, I've got him at gunpoint... Okay, gunpoint, 132 and Bush, cover's code three." This is a sound clip from a conversation between a Portland, OR police officer and the radio dispatcher during the arrest of a suspect in the 13200 block of SE Bush St. Along with Florida, other early episode localities include the Pacific Northwest cities of Portland, OR and Tacoma, WA. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.207.41.25 ( talk) 23:02, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
"COPS" isn't an acronym. Shouldn't the title of the show be Cops instead of COPS? -- Metropolitan90 (talk) 17:25, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
It is (or was) taught in most Police Academies that the origin of the Term COP comes from the 1800s in when British "bobbies" patrolled the streets. They, it is said, were actually Constables and the term was a short version of "Constable On Patrol or COP". So it actually could be considered an Acronym. Another more colloquial explanation was that about the same period the Police Officers, or Constables wore "COPPER" buttons on their Jackets. So the local hoods might call out "here come the 'COPPERS'" which was truncated to "here come the 'COPS'" at some point. This folklore of course does not support COPS being an Acronym. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.62.88.94 ( talk) 00:58, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
In the article, it is quoted "Police departments in Austin, Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, Honolulu, Orlando, Fairfax County, Virginia, and San Jose, California have refused requests to tape in their cities". With no citation or reference. I have been a faithful watcher of COPS for almost 15 years and know for a fact they've shot in Honolulu, and I seem to remember them in Detroit as well early on. NECRAT Speak to me 07:08, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
The Criticism section is not supported by references, and is pretty clearly POV. The one single reference refers to a single comment by the Chicago Deputy Director of News Affairs that has little or no connection to the rest of the section. Johnny Squeaky ( talk) 03:49, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
Is it possible to create an episode list? -- 91.66.20.249 ( talk) 17:55, 5 September 2011 (UTC) Score: http://www.thefutoncritic.com/showatch/cops/listings/
How many total of episodes from March 11, 1989 to now? Well, I am not sure and I make it clear. Thanks! — Sheenmeister ( talk) 22:08, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
This has been a constant source of "bickering", and article editing and reverting. It was totally unsourced, wasn't worthy enough of a point to be it's own anyways. So it has been removed and a single line blurb was added to the production section. Please don't revert this beyond this, or else I will get the article locked again. NECRAT Speak to me 06:26, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
"The series is currently one of only two remaining first-run prime-time programs airing on Saturday nights on the four major U.S. broadcast television networks..." Arcanicus ( talk) 01:31, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
Most other sources state Cops to be filmed "as it happens," that is, it is not reenacted as would be the case with cinema verite. If there is some reliable first source to discount this, please advise. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.107.80.115 ( talk) 03:49, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
I came to this article to understand more about the filming art/process of COPS and why the suspects never look directly or approach the camera. The article does not go into detail as to the legality of being filmed if it is in fact real life non-actors being filmed. Maybe this is edited out, but it does not seem so. I am very disappointed that I do not know if COPS is just another so called "reality" with amateur acting TV show or true real life. Most of the police officers on the show always seem to use excessive force, are overly vigilant, and excessively violent. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.92.63.39 ( talk) 03:56, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
I would guess the COPS employee killed was not killed by the "gun" but by an officer's bullet, right? Thanks, 66.25.212.112 ( talk) 18:31, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: No consensus. Our guidelines typically call for ambiguous titles to be fully disambiguated, but solid arguments were made here in favor of the status quo. Specifically, that any confusion is likely to be among the (relatively few) readers looking for COPS (animated TV series) who are sent here by accident, rather than readers looking for this much more prominent article being sent the other way. As such, I find no consensus for a move, after over two weeks and a relisting. Cúchullain t/ c 20:05, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
Cops (TV series) → Cops (reality TV series) – due to the ambiguous nature of the naming, and rather poor distinction with capitalization, since the stylization of this TV show is allcaps "COPS". There is little distinction between TV shows -- 70.51.202.113 ( talk) 03:30, 18 September 2015 (UTC) --Relisted. George Ho ( talk) 05:23, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
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WP:RECOGNIZABILITY That this show is using "Cops" is not the way that it appears in the world at large to a large portion of the readership, so it is not recognizably distinguished from the All-Caps TV show link COPS (TV series).
It clearly is not a primary topic, as they do not use disambiguators, being primary topics, they reside at the undisambiguated location.
From the survey above: It isn't called "Cops" in any context, so no such ambiguity exists. (my restyling of existing emphasis) False and easily disproved. Have a look at this ebay listing which reads Cops Vol.1 Animated Series - (DVD Animation) Used - Free UK P&P. I'm sure it won't be hard to find other examples, this particular styling is so easily omitted. Similar to The Man from U.N.C.L.E. which is often referred to as The Man from Uncle (need I really give examples?). Andrewa ( talk) 04:42, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
Also from the survey above: How, in your view, does a current, internationally distributed TV program with four Emmy Award nominations and 950 installments televised in a 26-year period (during which it became the longest-running series in the Fox Network's 30-year history) lack primacy over a program with a single 65-episode season broadcast over a 5-month span in 1988/1989? Interesting question. But the onus of proof is on those who wish to assert primacy. Lots of old short-running shows are now considered classics. This may not be quite in that category, but it does seem to punch well above its weight. Andrewa ( talk) 04:52, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
I was woundering why French, German and Spanish versions of Wikipedia ( COPS (fr), COPS (es), COPS (de)) have Cops stylized as COPS in the article title, and here instead it is Cops. -- Giacomo Sarrocco ( talk) 11:28, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
this section is outdated. "Her retrial is due to begin with jury selection on December 1, 2016."
this date already happened. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.67.120.61 ( talk) 20:57, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
The opening paragraph of the "Camera crew involvement" section has been deleted. It had long been flagged (since 2010) as being unsourced, and (as of May, 2017) no one had ever fixed that problem -- leaving this paragraph without any indication of a valid, independent source.
Furthermore, the paragraph appeared very much as if it were written by a corporate public-relations office, or as a legal disclaimer by the production company's lawyer (either of which would be a violation of WP:NPOV) -- rather than an independent editor's summary of information from any neutral third-party, secondary source, as called for by WP:NPOV and other elements of WP:STYLE.
It originally read:
In particular, the last sentence makes a very subjective, and potentially litigious, claim:
Such a serious claim needs a substantial source.
This section could, concievably, benefit from a similar opening paragraph -- IF (and ONLY if) it is from an independent source, citing appropriate third-party, secondary source(s) (preferably major-media or academic sources) as called for by WP:NPOV and other elements of WP:STYLE.
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