When Officer Ken Witt of the Santa Ana, CA, Police Department receives instruction from Range Master Dan Dolan on the use of a firearm, he encounters a young male in the neighborhood known for gang and narcotics-related activities. After questioning the suspect, Officer Witt and other officers discover a cockedballoon and bullets in the young man's pockets.
Also featured is a Las Vegas lovers' quarrel. Officer Ryan Cook of the Las Vegas, NV, Metropolitan Police Department witnesses a male with a bicycle aggressively grabbing a woman. Upon questioning them, he learns the man is upset because his girlfriend was with someone else. The suspect, currently living with the female victim, is also friends with her husband, who has no knowledge of the affair between his friend and his wife.
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.