Escambia County, Florida Deputies attempt a warrant service on a wanted man. The suspect flees in a pickup truck and deputies watch as the hood flies up. Deputies in Kern County, California spot a stolen GMC pickup at a gas station. The driver pulls away and runs from the truck, jumping several fences before trying to pretend he wasn't involved. Greene County, Missouri Deputies conduct a traffic stop on an intoxicated man wanted for a hit-and-run earlier at a local dance hall.
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.