Copaganda and Fantasy – Police Fiction in the 21st Century
I know a lot of people who won’t watch or read anything involving the police anymore because it’s all copaganda.
I know others who are trying to navigate this space. Bluntly, a good police procedural is still quite entertaining. I definitely fall into this category.
I don’t idolize the police and never did, but I’ve been a big fan of police procedurals ranging from Asimov’s Caves of Steel to Death in Paradise.
Last week, police in Chicago killed another Black man for no good reason and this one didn’t even make the news. It didn’t hit my eyeballs for days. We can’t support these police.
A lot of white people in America are raised to practically worship the police while Black kids receive training on how not to get shot. This can’t continue. I’m white and I am afraid to call the cops because somebody might get shot.
(I’m not saying cops don’t have the right to legitimate self defense here, but these incidents are not self defense or anything close to it).
But at the same time I don’t have the problems with cop fiction some people have and I put it down to my upbringing.
I grew up seeing four different types of police. For context, I was born in the U.K. in 1973, and my childhood was shadowed by the Troubles and Margaret Thatcher.
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