Doug Holland to THE POLICE PROBLEM@lemmy.worldEnglish • 6 months agoIndiana man with mental disabilities, framed by police for murder, gets $11.7 million settlement1ft.ioexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up1180arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1175arrow-down1external-linkIndiana man with mental disabilities, framed by police for murder, gets $11.7 million settlement1ft.ioDoug Holland to THE POLICE PROBLEM@lemmy.worldEnglish • 6 months agomessage-square12fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrHlinkEnglish11•6 months agoI really want to make a police tv procedural that get policing right. Basically, a crime happens and then the dumbest and cruelest person from your high school (the cop) frames a marginalized person while the media fellates the cop.
minus-squareDoug HollandOPlinkfedilinkEnglish6•6 months agoYou might like The Shield, an old show worth binging, about bad cops. There’s never been another show like it.
minus-square@ApexHunter@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish2•6 months agoI mean, as a writer for a show like this you’d have a never ending set of source material to draw on…
I really want to make a police tv procedural that get policing right. Basically, a crime happens and then the dumbest and cruelest person from your high school (the cop) frames a marginalized person while the media fellates the cop.
You might like The Shield, an old show worth binging, about bad cops. There’s never been another show like it.
I’ll have to give it a watch.
I mean, as a writer for a show like this you’d have a never ending set of source material to draw on…