‘Cops’ Canceled At Paramount Network Amid Global Anti-Police Brutality Protests
By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 10, 2020 9:30 am EST
“Cops is not on the Paramount Network and we don’t have any current or future plans for it to return,” a Paramount Network spokesperson said in a statement.
A recent podcast hosted by Dan Taberski, Running From Cops, also went into detail about the shady behind-the-scenes tactics of the show, including coercing people into signing waivers and allowing police to edit and remove anything that would paint them in a negative light.
However, TV networks and studios are now coming to terms with how television and media has helped shape and support systemic racism. Comedy shows using blackface have been pulled from streaming platforms, while Gone With The Wind is the subject of renewed debate about its glamorization of the Antebellum South. At the same time that Paramount Network pulled Cops, A&E has pulled the similar law-enforcement reality show Live PD from its schedule “out of respect for the families of George Floyd and others who have lost their lives.”
