For those of you who are unaware, there is a programme on television called "Police Women of [State]". The reason I format the title like that is because there are multiple different versions in different states in America (I'm not entirely sure why they do that). 

 

After watching it, I felt I wanted to share my views. Unfortunately, it was actually quite a while ago, I didn't think to write this topic at the time.

Immediately, I have an issue. Police Women? Why police women? Don't we already have documentaries in this style on... the general police force in America (and other countries), anyway? It feels like someone made it for the sake of "equality" - but it's not, because we already have gender neutral programmes about the police that show both men and women in the force. They may show more men than women... but I'm fairly certain that's because there are a larger number of men with this job.

Hell, why not go one step further and get rid of shows like "Cops" and replace them with "Police Men of [State]"? That way, we're all nice and segregated off... for equality. 

 

Now I want to discuss something I saw in one of the episodes that bugged me. Because it's been a while since I watched it, I can't remember everything very well, so my apologies for hazy details.

The officer is called to somebody with a weapon. They enter the house, and identify the one guy there as the one with the weapon. Not sure how, but maybe a description was given. As I said, hazy details.

So she's talking to him. At one point, he refers to her as "babe". Obviously, that's not an appropriate word to refer to a stranger with, let alone a police officer. However.

Her reaction is not appropriate for her job. She immediately gets visibly angry, telling him "Don't call me babe! You refer to me as 'officer'! Would you call a male officer babe?" Well, no, he probably wouldn't. But he might call them things like... pig. Asshole. Shithead. Any number of insults. 'Babe' isn't even an insult, she's getting off lightly in the verbal abuse thing here. 

I'm fairly certain that she grab him while telling him not to call her this. 

It's a bad idea to allow yourself to react badly to something, especially if it's something that bugs you. If they're a criminal, or just don't like the police, knowing what makes you angry can be a pretty useful tool, because people don't think as rationally when angry.

Of course, he calls her it again. I don't remember exactly what happens, but eventually he's arrested - for the weapons charge, I hope - not for calling her babe.

But yeah. Self-control is important as a police officer. People can be annoying, especially when met with someone who has the legal duty to arrest and detain them if they've done something wrong. If you let these things work you up, it can make a bad situation worse, just with words.

 

So that's my thoughts on "Police Women of [State]". There are things I missed - for instance, I vaguely remember an episode where prostitutes were dealt with in some way. I really wish I could remember how it went, because I think it had problems just like the one I do remember, and discussing it would be interesting. If you find it on YouTube, feel free to link it here. I don't remember which state that one was in, is the problem.

 

What are your opinions on this? Please give me your thoughts below. Perhaps some of you see this differently to me - I tried to describe the episode I remember in a non-biased way, but if you also want to try finding that on YouTube, link it here if you do. 

I'm sure I remember someone pointing out that large parts of that show are scripted.  If I remember correctly, there was one scene in Broward where a number of officers are chasing someone on foot and all of a sudden, most of them just start jogging behind or stop so that one of the stars of the show could be filmed making the tackle.

 

If you search around, there's a couple of interesting articles online about the series and some of the advertising, for example, that they used to promote it.  As for why they called it that, it's probably a marketing thing.  It let them market their show with sex, and regardless of what you think of that, sex sells.  Go check out some of the posters, like "Taser Time" and "Cavity Search, Anyone?" that were used to market the show...

5 minutes ago, Sam said:

I'm sure I remember someone pointing out that large parts of that show are scripted.  If I remember correctly, there was one scene in Broward where a number of officers are chasing someone on foot and all of a sudden, most of them just start jogging behind or stop so that one of the stars of the show could be filmed making the tackle.

 

If you search around, there's a couple of interesting articles online about the series and some of the advertising, for example, that they used to promote it.  As for why they called it that, it's probably a marketing thing.  It let them market their show with sex, and regardless of what you think of that, sex sells.  Go check out some of the posters, like "Taser Time" and "Cavity Search, Anyone?" that were used to market the show...

Oh, hello Sam!

 

 

Scripted, you say? Hmm. That would explain why I had such issue with it. 

I haven't really thought to search around for it - after posting this topic today I decided to search it up on Wikipedia, to see which states are featured. Still not sure which one it was I watched with something regarding prostitutes.

 

I'll Google and have a look for those articles. Thanks for the heads up.

On 10/25/2016 at 3:52 AM, Pipeline said:

For those of you who are unaware, there is a programme on television called "Police Women of [State]". The reason I format the title like that is because there are multiple different versions in different states in America (I'm not entirely sure why they do that). 

 

After watching it, I felt I wanted to share my views. Unfortunately, it was actually quite a while ago, I didn't think to write this topic at the time.

Immediately, I have an issue. Police Women? Why police women? Don't we already have documentaries in this style on... the general police force in America (and other countries), anyway? It feels like someone made it for the sake of "equality" - but it's not, because we already have gender neutral programmes about the police that show both men and women in the force. They may show more men than women... but I'm fairly certain that's because there are a larger number of men with this job.

Hell, why not go one step further and get rid of shows like "Cops" and replace them with "Police Men of [State]"? That way, we're all nice and segregated off... for equality. 

 

Now I want to discuss something I saw in one of the episodes that bugged me. Because it's been a while since I watched it, I can't remember everything very well, so my apologies for hazy details.

The officer is called to somebody with a weapon. They enter the house, and identify the one guy there as the one with the weapon. Not sure how, but maybe a description was given. As I said, hazy details.

So she's talking to him. At one point, he refers to her as "babe". Obviously, that's not an appropriate word to refer to a stranger with, let alone a police officer. However.

Her reaction is not appropriate for her job. She immediately gets visibly angry, telling him "Don't call me babe! You refer to me as 'officer'! Would you call a male officer babe?" Well, no, he probably wouldn't. But he might call them things like... pig. Asshole. Shithead. Any number of insults. 'Babe' isn't even an insult, she's getting off lightly in the verbal abuse thing here. 

I'm fairly certain that she grab him while telling him not to call her this. 

It's a bad idea to allow yourself to react badly to something, especially if it's something that bugs you. If they're a criminal, or just don't like the police, knowing what makes you angry can be a pretty useful tool, because people don't think as rationally when angry.

Of course, he calls her it again. I don't remember exactly what happens, but eventually he's arrested - for the weapons charge, I hope - not for calling her babe.

But yeah. Self-control is important as a police officer. People can be annoying, especially when met with someone who has the legal duty to arrest and detain them if they've done something wrong. If you let these things work you up, it can make a bad situation worse, just with words.

 

So that's my thoughts on "Police Women of [State]". There are things I missed - for instance, I vaguely remember an episode where prostitutes were dealt with in some way. I really wish I could remember how it went, because I think it had problems just like the one I do remember, and discussing it would be interesting. If you find it on YouTube, feel free to link it here. I don't remember which state that one was in, is the problem.

 

What are your opinions on this? Please give me your thoughts below. Perhaps some of you see this differently to me - I tried to describe the episode I remember in a non-biased way, but if you also want to try finding that on YouTube, link it here if you do. 

I remember watching a show from the Oprah Winfrey Network that went along those lines, but was Police Women of [city]. (in my case, Dallas). Now keep in mind, Oprah is known for her role in gender empowerment of women, so it comes as no surprise to see that her network was the one who produced such a show. (note: This show was released BEFORE the July 7th massacre).

1 hour ago, MrMoriyal said:

I remember watching a show from the Oprah Winfrey Network that went along those lines, but was Police Women of [city]. (in my case, Dallas). Now keep in mind, Oprah is known for her role in gender empowerment of women, so it comes as no surprise to see that her network was the one who produced such a show. (note: This show was released BEFORE the July 7th massacre).

Dallas is a city? Didn't know that. Pretty sure it's the same programme, I just assumed it was a state name in the title.

Also, what is the "July 7th massacre"?

24 minutes ago, Pipeline said:

Dallas is a city? Didn't know that. Pretty sure it's the same programme, I just assumed it was a state name in the title.

Also, what is the "July 7th massacre"?

Dallas is the city in Texas in which an african american male shot and killed 5 police officers and injured many others on July 7th, 2016.