Over the last few months, I kept track of TV shows that dealt with law enforcement and emergencies. I knew that cop shows were a big part of TV programming, but I was surprised to find out just how much.
Here is the list I compiled of (recent) past, present and future shows:
48 Hours
48 Hours: Hard Evidence
Alaska State Troopers
All Worked Up
America’s Most Wanted
American Greed
Animal Cops: Detroit
Animal Cops: Houston
Animal Cops: Philadelphia
Bait Car
Best Ranger
Bones
Border Wars
Boston Legal
Boston Med
Breakout
Burn Notice
Case Crackers
Castle
Cellblock 6: Female Lockup
Chasing Justice
CNBC Investigates
Coast Watch
Cold Blood
Cold Case
COPS
CourTV
Covert Affairs
Crime 360
Crime Scene Wild
Crime Stories
Crime, Inc.
Criminal Minds
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Dark Blue
Dateline NBC
Deadly Women
Diagnosis: Unknown
Disappeared
Disorder In The Court
Dog The Bounty Hunter
Drugs, Inc.
Evening News broadcasts
Extreme Forensics
Fight Quest
Flashpoint
Forensic Files
Fringe
Fugitive Chronicles
Grey’s Anatomy
Haunted
Haven
Hawaii Five-O
Hawthorne
Heavy Metal Task Force
Homeland Security
Hot Pursuit
Human Target
I (Almost) Got Away With It
ID Channel
In Plain Sight
Inside American Jail
Inside Cocaine Submarines
Jack Ford: Courtside
JAG
Judge Joe Brown
Judge Judy
Justice 101
Justified
Las Vegas Jailhouse
Law & Order
Law & Order: CI
Law & Order: SVU
Leverage
Lie To Me
Lock Up: San Quentin
Lockdown
Locked Up Abroad
Lockup: Holman
Lockup: Raw
Mall Cops
Mall Cops: Mall of America
Manhunters
Masterminds
Memphis Beat
Mercy
Most Daring
Most Shocking
Murder By The Book
Mystery Diagnosis
NCIS
NCIS: LA
North Mission Road
Numb3rs
Operation Wild
Outlaw
Paranormal Cops
Parole Board
Party Heat
Past Life
Pit Boss
Police Women
Police Women of Maricopa County
Police Women of Memphis
Prison Wives
Psych
Psychic Investigations
Rizzoli & Isles
Rookie Blue
Rubicon
Sanctuary
Science of the Elite Soldier
Scrubs
Shadow Soldiers: Mexico
Showdown: Air Combat
Solitary Confinement
Solved: Extreme Forensics
Southern Friend Stings
Southland
Speeders
The Closer
The Event
The FBI Files
The First 48
The Forgotten
The Good Guys
The Investigators
Three Rivers
Trauma
TruTV
UnderCovers
Warehouse 13
Whale Wars
White Collar
World’s Wildest Police Chases
World’s Wildest Police Videos
It’s hard to look at this list and realize that people view this stuff–slave driving (law enforcement)–as entertainment.
For those who say this isn’t slavery, can you speak freely without consequences from the State, work any kind of job you desire, travel unimpeded, start a business, freely exchange goods and services, eat what you want, smoke what you want, marry whomever you choose, build without a permit or license (permission), and not be forced to give your wealth to other people, etc.? No, you can’t, and just because you don’t have physical chains on your legs doesn’t mean you aren’t a slave to the will (“law”) of others.
The worst part about all these cop and emergency shows is that they are being used 1) to psychologically condition you to obey your law enforcement masters, and show you the consequences that may result if you don’t; 2) hopefully make you think that these people are just regular good guys, like you, who are just doing their jobs (jobs that they voluntarily signed on for, I might add, so them trying to hide behind that excuse is ridiculous); 3) condition you to understand and accept that law enforcement will be in every area of your life, from womb to grave, and you should accept it as normal; and 4) as a recruiting tool for authoritarians.
Even National Geographic and Syfy have introduced cop shows into their channel lineups. Is nothing sacred, anymore?
I want to be clear that I do not support any kind of activity that harms another person. But in this case, all types of “criminal” activities are being used in TV programming to condition you to a Police State. Don’t fall for it, and see these shows for what they really are–and turn them off!
Wisdom of the Anarchs 
Holy crap! I had no idea the general public was so inundated with images of the good cops vs the villains. No wonder they tend to believe that the police are 99% moral, necessary and effective.