Police work is carried out by armed people invested with the power to commit discretionary lethal violence; it's a monumentally bad idea to appeal to the vanity of such people and to encourage them to act in ways calculated to enhance their image.William N. Grigg analyzes a troubling and dangerous police state-enabling trend in "entertainment."
Not to be confused with Unreality TV...
[Via Zachary G]
3 comments:
If "Deadliest Catch" or "Ice Road Truckers" encourages people to hot dog for the camera at least they aren't threatening other peoples civil rights. And the danger is largely to themselves.
Ok, on this one issue I must take the pragmatist's view. The victims should have cooperated, oh wait, they did. Well they should have been polite, oh wait, they were.
They shouldn't have complained, aha, got 'em now. Yeah, that's the ticket. They had the audacity to complain about their home being needlessly and criminally destroyed even in the face of the fact that policy was observed, and the laws on the books were obeyed.
What assholes! We got 'em now. This pragmatic thing is easy once you throw away all principle and morality.
Cop glorification programming is a disgusting blight.
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