(12:31 PM, Albuquerque Police Department Vice Unit, Vice Sting, Sgt Clarence G. Davis) The vice unit is setting up a sting operation to catch illegal activity.
(9:04 PM, Lakewood Police Department, Shoplifting Call, Deputy Jeff Alwine) Deputy Alwine goes to a call where a man has stolen an unknown amount of lottery scratch tickets.
(8:45 PM, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, South East Area Command, Bike Sting, Multiple Officers) Officers are conducting a bike sting to combat recent thefts of bicycles at convenience stores.
Called the original reality show, Cops is a gritty and unfiltered look at the seamier parts of our society as seen through the eyes of the men and women who struggle to keep the peace.
Since 1989, camera crews have traveled across the nation and into other countries providing an intimate look at police officers and the nuts and bolts of their day-to-day work.
Cops uses a modern adaptation of cin... ma v... rit?, a French documentary style of film making from the early 1920s, where life is shot as it happens, without script, narration or interference. Here, the police officer is narrator, guiding you through the shift and what happens within it, using his or her own words.