When Deputy Michael Ellis of the Lee County, FL, Sheriff's Office responds to a domestic dispute, he questions a distressed man who claims that he fears for his life because his wife is a belligerent, unhappy drunk. Officers follow the hurt husband home to question his wife and attempt to resolve a painful and volatile domestic situation. Cameras also capture an undercover drug sting when they follow Detectives Richard Davis and Enrico Doro of the Fort Meyers, FL, Police Department. Detective Davis, posing as a filthy drug addict on a bicycle, cycles several times through a heavy drug-traffic neighborhood, looking to score narcotics.
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.