Josh Clark

But even from the first episode, civil rights groups were like, whoa, wait a second here.

Like a lot of these criminals are black and this is way disproportionate to reality.

I thought this was a reality show.

And the cops producers, Barbara Langley Productions, were like, well, it's reality ish, you know, like it's not the actual portrayal of reality.

It's a skewed toward entertainment version of reality.

So just settle down.

And the civil rights groups are like, we're not settling down.

That actually makes it even worse.

Yeah, I mean, the cops loved it because they were portrayed as heroes.

It was a great recruiting tool for police officers.

And, you know, I guess we have some stats from the Marshall Project.

They did an analysis in 1994.

Wow.

Most of the officers on balance were white.

Suspects were more likely to be black or Hispanic.

As far as the numbers go, they found that while sexual assault, robbery and murders account for just 13 percent of all crime in 1994, at least it was 43 percent of what you saw in cops.

I don't remember a lot of sexual assault and murder, though, like everything I saw in cops.

Or like robberies and drug arrests or just, you know, DUI, being drunk out in public, stuff like that.

Or a dude hiding under a kiddie pool.

Yeah.