Law And Order Showrunner Warren Leight Says That Cop Shows Are ‘Mis-Contributing’ To Society

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Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorTrevor Noah devoted a segment of his Daily Show Thursday to address the portrayals of law enforcement officers on TV police procedurals.“Believe it or not, watching cop shows makes a lot of people see the police as infallible,” Noah said. “And honestly, I don’t blame any of these people.

Following the heartbreaking and all too frequent stories of systemic racism and police brutality against black people and people of color in this country, industry folk and audiences alike have begun to cast a critical eye against “cop shows” – in attempt to both understand and deconstruct how they may shape and perpetuate misconstrued perceptions of the police. Essentially, everyone is re-examing what they do and trying to see how they can better it.

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Will Thorne Staff WriterThe cop show is almost as old as television itself. The earliest police dramas birthed the idea of a narrative in which good (police) and bad (criminal) were clearly defined.But fast-forward to the present and mass protests across the United States following the deaths of Black men and women including George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Michael Brown Jr.

You know the scene all too well: A police officer, unable to get the information out of a suspect, resort to threats that turn into violence. Now, they've got what they need.

With the Black Lives Matter protests continuing around the world, Law and Order has been atop of the media headlines repeatedly over the last few weeks. Law And Order and all of its spin-offs play a massive role in how the police are portrayed to the public.

“Real Time” on HBO Friday night, and he largely dealt with the same topic that just about everyone in the country has focused on all week: the death of George Floyd at the hands of police, and the resulting nationwide protests against police violence.The part of the show we’re going to hone in on here is “New Rules,” which is the last segment each week.

When Law & Order: SVU returns to airwaves, the longest-running primetime drama will tackle head-on the events of 2020, from the coronavirus pandemic to the protests against police brutality in response the death of George Floyd. Warren Leight, executive producer and showrunner on SVU, appeared on The Hollywood Reporter's TV's Top 5 podcast to discuss how the show will handle the shifting real-world landscape and how TV shows—cop dramas in particular—can do better.

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Shortly after the video was released of George Floyd being killed by a police officer and protests began to rise up around the US, Spike Lee released a short clip editing together the videos of Floyd and Eric Garner being killed alongside a similar scene in the director’s own “Do The Right Thing,” asking the question, “When will history stop repeating itself?” In a new interview with the Los Angeles Times, Lee talked about the connection between his 1989 acclaimed film and the recent racist

As protests about police brutality and the murder of George Floyd spread across the country, fictional cops on TV have come under fire, too.

The Hollywood Reporter revealed today that the Law and Order showrunner, Dick Wolf, swiftly had an employee fired after he said that he would “light up” any protestors if they attacked any of his buildings or personal property. Craig Gore was brought in early May to work on a Law and Order: SVU spin-off starring the SVU star, Christoper Meloni.

By Ted Johnson