Chicago PD

Shows and characters.............

I know some shows make a character dispicable from the beginning so when he goes to prison or is shot or goes through a buncher grinder you are glad, but how about a detestable central character, I was/am a big seinfeld fan, but from the beginning I detested cantstandya castanza, every time he boobed out in some neurotic escapade I cheered and cheered then I laffed and laffed, pretty mature right?
 
Mike said:
YA'LL GOTTA CHILL OUT........All tv is make believe.....Enjoy it for the entertainment only.
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Seems everything that comes out of Hollywood is about brain washing. I suspect that a lot of folks watch Chicago PD and see police officers working both sides of the line and they think that's how the police really are.

I've been watching Adam-12 reruns lately . . . how refreshing those episodes are.
 
Faulkner said:
I suspect that a lot of folks watch Chicago PD and see police officers working both sides of the line and they think that's how the police really are.
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Just Google Chicago PD scandals, even
up to current times, and you'll get an
idea of "how the poiice really are." Yes,
they are the terrible exceptions but
still they exist.
 
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UncleEd said:
Just Google Chicago PD scandals, even
up to current times, and you'll get an
idea of "how the poiice really are." Yes,
they are the terrible exceptions but
still they exist.
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You're probably right, as corrupt as Chicago is and has been for years, corruption begats corruption. Kind of like working in Washington, D.C.
 
Whenever you enter TV land and watch a cop show, Live PD is the only exception, you have entered the twilight zone of LEO reality. Revolvers that fire 11 rounds without a reload and police involved shootings where the officers are back on patrol in 1 hour, 1 Adam 12. None of it is real and, for the most part, has not been researched.

Joseph Wambaugh is a highly respected author of cop related books and he called on his years of experience to pen an excellent book only to have Hollywood absolutely destroy the integrity of the book by making the movie " The Choirboys" into some sort of amusement that I still do not understand. It is all make believe and we need to understand that going in.
 
Wambaugh

usmc2427765 said:
Whenever you enter TV land and watch a cop show, Live PD is the only exception, you have entered the twilight zone of LEO reality. Revolvers that fire 11 rounds without a reload and police involved shootings where the officers are back on patrol in 1 hour, 1 Adam 12. None of it is real and, for the most part, has not been researched.

Joseph Wambaugh is a highly respected author of cop related books and he called on his years of experience to pen an excellent book only to have Hollywood absolutely destroy the integrity of the book by making the movie " The Choirboys" into some sort of amusement that I still do not understand. It is all make believe and we need to understand that going in.
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The wambaugh books were great, what I remember most of choirpractice was we would do the same thing after a set of shifts on a saturday morning, go to a local park and have drinks and talk about the previous set of shifts.
 
dasnake said:
The wambaugh books were great, what I remember most of choirpractice was we would do the same thing after a set of shifts on a saturday morning, go to a local park and have drinks and talk about the previous set of shifts.
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The Wambaugh books were the very best of the cop books, especially the first dozen or so (with one or two exceptions). Wambaugh does cop fiction like no one else can do it. No one else ever came close. His non-fiction books, however, don't compare. I wouldn't recommend them. I don't know if Wambaugh still writes but would assume he doesn not. He must be well over eighty.

While the "Police Story" TV series may have been loosely based on Wambaugh tales, it was second only to "NYPD Blue", certainly the best of the TV cop shows. "Police Story" usually had great guest stars, something almost never seen these days in any TV series.
 
Wambaugh said that Kent McCord
of "Adam 12" accused him of tryng
to destroy the Adam 12 series with
his "Police Story." McCord supposedly
didn't like the image that "Police
Story" might be creating.
 
UncleEd said:
Wambaugh said that Kent McCord
of "Adam 12" accused him of tryng
to destroy the Adam 12 series with
his "Police Story." McCord supposedly
didn't like the image that "Police
Story" might be creating.
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Perhaps that's a true tale. "Adam 12" was a pretty good show, though one that likely wouldn't make it today, but "Police Story" was much better, even if they occasionally had a dud episode.
 
McCord has a history of aggressively protecting the Adam 12 franchise. Several years back he filed a complaint against an Adam 12 website and the owner had to take it down as he couldn't afford a protracted legal battle.

This was a site that generated no revenue for the owner, used images under the "fair use" doctrine, and for which the owner would not accept donations.



UncleEd said:
Wambaugh said that Kent McCord
of "Adam 12" accused him of tryng
to destroy the Adam 12 series with
his "Police Story." McCord supposedly
didn't like the image that "Police
Story" might be creating.
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rockquarry said:
I think I gave "Longmire" a fair chance when it came out some years ago. After four or five episodes, I just couldn't see it as being much of a show. However, there was some familiar looking countryside. At least some of the show was filmed in the area around Raton, NM.



Probably numerous police protocol errors in that show, too, but fortunately, they went right past me.
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I watched a few and decided “Long-winded” would be a better description. He’s way too gabby for my taste.

I’m no expert, but I have yet to watch a police procedural drama that looked remotely accurate.

Having some knowledge of how a crime lab and crime scene investigation works, I watched a single episode of “CSI” when it first came out and nearly hurled. Ditto for “NCIS” and the one-woman crime lab, who swipes DNA over a scanner and gets instant results.

I think my favorite on all these shows is the instant, warrantless access of people’s financial, phone records, real-time cell-phone location tracking, instant facial rec, etc.
 
usmc2427765 said:
Whenever you enter TV land and watch a cop show, Live PD is the only exception, you have entered the twilight zone of LEO reality. Revolvers that fire 11 rounds without a reload and police involved shootings where the officers are back on patrol in 1 hour, 1 Adam 12. None of it is real and, for the most part, has not been researched.

Joseph Wambaugh is a highly respected author of cop related books and he called on his years of experience to pen an excellent book only to have Hollywood absolutely destroy the integrity of the book by making the movie " The Choirboys" into some sort of amusement that I still do not understand. It is all make believe and we need to understand that going in.
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You completely missed the sound of a revolver cocking as a Glock is being drawn from the holster. Pretty common.

That and the sheer number of Cops chambering a round before a raid........ :eek:
 
I don't really care for the lack of realism of any of the newer cop shows. I'm still watching the original Five-0 on DVD. I'm sure you J frame fans appreciated McGarrett's (Jack Lord) J frame expertise.
 
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