Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-15 (Wednesday)

On Jan 16, 2025 at 9:15:22 AM PST, ""Ian J. Ball"" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:

 Just two more episodes to go, and then on to "On Call".

What? I thought you boycotted all Dick Wolf cop shows as a matter of
principle!

I watched the first seven (out of eight) episodes of this last night. The
episodes are actually pretty short-- only about 25 minutes a piece.

It does a good job showing the frustration L.A.-area cops (these cops are in
Long Beach, but are still in L.A. County) have with the restrictions imposed
on them from on high. In one scene, the cops are called to a street takeover,
with a huge crowd hooting and hollering and lighting off fireworks while guys
in hotrods do donuts in the intersection. Our two "hero" cops show up, their
car is immediately pelted with beer cans and bricks and hit with fireworks, so
they back off and are told by the watch commander to just "monitor" the
situation, while residents and business owners are like, "They're committing
dozens of crimes right in front of you and endangering us and our homes and
businesses and you're just going to sit there and watch? What are we paying
taxes for?"

Later, one of the thugs in the crowd seriously beats up one of the cops, then
runs away. The rookie cop goes to chase him down but is reprimanded by his FTO
for trying to arrest a guy who committed felony battery on a LEO. She tells
him, "What's the point? You'll just further enflame the crowd, put the rest of
us in danger, and even if you catch the guy, he'll be out and back on the
street before our shift is even over." The rookie can't believe it. They're
just letting people get away with beating up cops because of the politics in
L.A. County.

So I give the show kudos for not only not shying away from the leftist
'progressive' nonsense that impacts policing around here, but going at it
straight on.