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I'll still be waiting for an inner-city cop show with ANY minority cast as a criminal. Come on, give me a Filipino or at least a Chinese! All we get is these ones, including East New York (ENY ffs!) where the criminals were all pasty white guys and the heroic cops are all noble black women. Do we dare not show reality on TV?
I'll still be waiting for an inner-city cop show with ANY minority cast as a criminal. Come on, give me a Filipino or at least a Chinese! All we get is these ones, including East New York (ENY ffs!) where the criminals were all pasty white guys and the heroic cops are all noble black women. Do we dare not show reality on TV?
I'll still be waiting for an inner-city cop show with ANY minority cast as a criminal. Come on, give me a Filipino or at least a Chinese! All we get is these ones, including East New York (ENY ffs!) where the criminals were all pasty white guys and the heroic cops are all noble black women. Do we dare not show reality on TV?
I've been gone awhile so, when did ENY gentrify into being a white neighborhood again??? That show must have been taking place in the early 1960s.
I'll still be waiting for an inner-city cop show with ANY minority cast as a criminal. Come on, give me a Filipino or at least a Chinese! All we get is these ones, including East New York (ENY ffs!) where the criminals were all pasty white guys and the heroic cops are all noble black women. Do we dare not show reality on TV?
Well, I don't want any more cop shows at all, but seems to me that Law & Order has often had black and Hispanic criminals.
I'll still be waiting for an inner-city cop show with ANY minority cast as a criminal. Come on, give me a Filipino or at least a Chinese! All we get is these ones, including East New York (ENY ffs!) where the criminals were all pasty white guys and the heroic cops are all noble black women. Do we dare not show reality on TV?
That ship has sailed, especially since they lost twitter. Now TV and movies are their only means of indoctrination.
Well, I don't want any more cop shows at all, but seems to me that Law & Order has often had black and Hispanic criminals.
Then don't watch them. Those type of shows come to NYC to film because they need the real city feel. Can't do it right on a sound stage in LA or Canada. More productions =more jobs=more money for the city=all good things.
Agree on needing diverse portrayals. Law & Order isn't perfect, but it has featured minority criminals too. Hoping "Elsbeth" focuses on the human stories behind the crimes.
Law and Order would have a black kid who committed a crime but it was always "Oh, he's a poor misunderstood inner-city kid who just needs to be mentored through this unfortunate situation that's not really his fault." (puke emoji, puke emoji).
And the kids mom would feature heavily in the story as the fine, upstanding, wise, devout christian mom who just can't understand how her good boy got into this mess...
meanwhile, most of the criminals are white and the attitude is throw them under the jail and never let them see the light of day again.
I remember the first few seasons of Hill Street Blues which portrayed a ghetto precinct accurately. There was one episode when a group of young black men actually raped and murdered 3 elderly nuns (!) They had the perps being questioned in the precinct and they were all sweaty from withdrawing off whatever drugs they were on. There was NO underlying sympathy for them.
I think Jesse Jackson or somebody got to them though because suddenly Hill Street Blues was on the black-people-can-do-no-wrong bandwagon and the show began to suck and then went off the air.
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That show must have been taking place in the early 1960s.
