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and its on the Learning Channel

On 8/31/09, Doug Millison <dougmillison at comcast.net> wrote:
> from Boing Boing:
>
> Radley Balko's crime column for Reason Online this week "criticizes
> the thinly-veiled S&M fantasy/cop reality show, The Police Women of
> Broward County."
>
> "The most obvious criticism of these shows is their exploitation and
> general tackiness. Police work is reduced to clownish pranks,
> adrenalin-inducing raids, and telegenic lady cops edited to invoke S&M
> fantasies for the shlubs watching at home. No one expects much dignity
> from cable networks, but you'd think, for example, that the Broward
> County Sheriff's Department might object to the sexualization of its
> female officers, or to a national ad campaign insinuating that they're
> sporting itchy Taser fingers.
> As for the SWAT programs, America has unfortunately grown comfortable
> with, or at least accustomed to, the idea of using SWAT teams to kick
> down doors and conduct volatile, confrontational raids for consensual,
> nonviolent crimes. We've seen a massive increase in these raids, from
> about 3,000 per year in the early 1980s to some 50,000 per year by the
> early 2000s. The popularity of SWAT shows didn't cause the problem,
> but their popularity is sympomatic of it, and they can only further
> ingrain the troubling notion that there's nothing wrong with sending a
> unit of cops dressed like soldiers into private homes to arrest
> nonviolent drug offenders. And of course, we're never going to see the
> wrong-door raids, or police mistakes that result in fatalities."
> http://www.boingboing.net/2009/08/31/police-women-of-brow.html
>
> The item at Boing Boing includes a photo of a poster for the show,
> headline: TASER TIME
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