Wrestling With Cops

After our classes about WWE wrestling and how they perpetrated certain ideals of masculinity and femininity on young viewers and practically brain-washed people with the idea that men are aggressive and in power and if you're not then you are not a man. I continued to think about why people would want to watch something like that on TV.

By coincidence I came across the show COPS in which I witnessed a male officers shouting, screaming, putting down and subduing various criminals.

Well these are two different scenarios right? Fake wrestling versus actual law enforcing heroes who put an end to no good doing bad guys. Well, yeah but why do we need to watch them do that. Why do we want to watch police officers (because there are some female officers featured on the show) over power criminals verbally and physically.

Is it because they deserved it? Maybe, they were after all breaking the law.

Maybe the same sense of power and control that made wrestling so popular is making shows like COPS just as entertaining.

The show has been criticized in the past for its inclusion of mostly poor-lower-end crimes as opposed to white-collar crimes which would be perpetrated by people of higher economic statuses.

When questioned about it by Michael Moore, a far-left documentary film maker, in the film Bowling For Columbine which took a look at violence and its affect on younger minds such as the boys who committed the high school massacre at Columbine High School.

The former associate producer, Richard Herlan, basically said he doesn't know how to make a good show without violence. Or rather won't try. It wasn't an issue to him that minorities might be misrepresented. Nor was it an issue as to why viewers love violence so much, it's more money after all.

Maybe people actually won't watch a show about fixing the problem in society that cause crime. Maybe they will find way to add explosions and climatic moments to teach in more educational shows.
Or maybe we'll just watch police brutality and feel like we're fixing the world from our couches.