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Listen to some about MMIW from Indigenous perspectives, like the Stolen podcast. It depends on who you're listening to but cops drop the ball a lot when it comes to finding indigenous women and reporters that are worth their shit don't tip toe around that. Many unsolved cases have less of a bias towards cops in general I think.

I also think that Casefile is actually pretty unbiased, though I haven't listened in a while, but I remember hearing a lot about how cops fuck up on those.

I've been watching The Blacklist with my wife. I've remarked that it's very honest in it's portrayal of law enforcement, in that they are all dishonest, corrupt, and criminal.

Not really a fan of the show, but I love James Spader's portrayal of Raymond Reddington. I lose interest when he's not in the scene. Just wanting to watch him has gotten me through to season 9.

Yeah. They definitely are biased towards the cops, probably because that's where they get most of their information from when writing the scripts.

I watch them anyways, but with a healthy dose of skepticism. I really wish there was an explicitly anti-cop true crime channel.

Ironically I usually end up leaving those videos still irritated at police for failing to do even the most basic detective work. But I also used to watch COPS as a kid because even back then I was like "what the fuck are these pigs doing, what a bunch of monsters" but then I later found out that it was supposed to make cops look good? Like really?!? 😆

No, not just you. I saw someone comment on this years, and years ago, calling "Copaganda". They were right, and so is everyone else I've seen talk about it, the way these documentaries glomp all over them like a 5-year-old with a hero complex is fucking pathetic coming from adults.

Youtube varies from genuinely good content, to generic filler, to complete and utter trash, and there is much of the latter two because it's not curated by anyone (other than by algorithms).

Try "We Own This City" from David Simon, if you want a documentary on the police that isn't propaganda.

I don't watch those, but from how it sounds, my expectation is that they tell it from the cops perspective. Because surely it wouldn't be from the criminal's perspective? Perspective would bias it already

Sure, cop shows are like that as well. They are so unrealistic.

Always has been

I mean they do try to solve crimes? So if the "cops" win, it is good?

I've had the opposite with the ones I've watched on Netflix

Skip Intro has a good series about this.