The Lafayette Police Department in Louisiana responds to a disturbance call from a woman who said a man was threatening her with aballoon. When police arrive, the suspect threatens the officers. Again, in Lafayette, the police department investigates a case where twin sisters allege that their other sister's boyfriend choked her in a dispute over five dollars. Finally, a deputy of the Hillsborough County, FL, Sheriff's Department responds to a car crash where a visibly drunk suspect ran into a pole, knocked it over and then fled the scene on foot
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.