Josh Clark

He was probably drunk or on drugs.

Right.

That's what I remember.

I don't remember like more serious crime.

So I was kind of wondering about that stat.

Yeah, I don't remember that either.

They also found that same study found that the show was far more likely to associate black and brown people than whites with violent crime.

They were black and brown people were 40 percent.

There was a 40 percent chance compared to a 13 percent chance for whites.

Yeah.

So it was like it wasn't just civil rights groups like sensing there's something off about this.

Like people conducted actual studies and found also that a viewer of cops was likelier to maintain the racial stereotype that blacks are typically criminals than a person who didn't watch cops.

So it had a really large impact.

And yet, despite that, this is 94 that that study came out.

It wasn't until 2013 that Fox is finally like, OK, fine, fine.

Yes.

OK, we'll cancel the show.

We've made our money over 25 seasons.

And thanks to civil rights organization Color of Change, Fox dropped it.

And that was the end of Cops Forever, right?