(S2, E30) Law and Order: Civil Liberties Violation

This week on Pop Culture Boner we’re taking a look at the enduring popularity of police procedurals and their recent reckoning with systemic racism and violence. Can the genre overcome its copaganda origins to become more thoughtful, or should we just give it a rest?

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You can find a list of references here:

• Rick Porter (2020, The Hollywood Reporter) - TV Long View: How Much Network TV Depends on Cop Shows

• Constance Grady (2020, Vox) - How 70 years of cop shows taught us to valorize the police

• Colour of Change (2020) - Normalising Injustice

• Patrick Lention (2020, Junkee) - In Its Final Season, ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ Is Trying Its Best To Be Better

• Priscila Mosqueda (2014, Texas Observer) - Hero Complex

• Alyssa Rosenberg (2016, Washington Post) - How police censorship shaped Hollywood

• Bloody Christmas (Wikipedia)

You can download a full transcript here.