Detective Eddie Brown injures his hand tackling a suspect during an arrest, and gets rushed to the hospital. Officer Philip Mercurio and his K9 follow a car with a broken window that turns out to be stolen. Officers Jimmy McGee and Pat Logan take four children away from their residence which has no heat, no electricity, and no food in the refrigerator.
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.