From Passaic County, New Jersey: Police call in a K-9 unit to search for narcotics after a foot chase. From Witchia, Kansas: Two suspicious people are sitting in a car in front of an abandoned house. One is arrested for possesion of drug paraphernalia. From Palm Beach County, Florida: An officer arrests a man for domestic battery.
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.