Re:How TV dramas informed and misinformed perceptions of the...
by namdnay on Friday June 18, 2021 @02:03PM
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To be fair to the BBC, their biggest police drama is about bent coppers
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Re:How TV dramas informed and misinformed perceptions of the...
by querulous on Friday June 18, 2021 @02:54PM
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yeah but they're the supervillian/shadow conspiracy kind of bent cops where almost all the cops who do bad things are good people who get manipulated into doing bad by criminal masterminds. and the "good" cops commit abuses just as bad as the "bad" cops
Re:How TV dramas informed and misinformed perceptions of the...
by pjc50 on Friday June 18, 2021 @04:06PM
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The final episode of S7 had so many references to real UK police corruption it was practically a speech to camera. You could tell it hit home by the number of complaints about it on Twitter.
Timely for the Daniel Taylor findings.