“It seemed to announce, this is not your regular cop show.” “I was a Bob Marley fan - still am - and I thought it would be very interesting to counterpoint law enforcement with reggae,” Langley told Entertainment Weekly in 2017 about the soundtrack to what would become Cops. He had the basic premise for a follow-up - follow police officers on the job with no narrator or re-enactments - but there were still crucial stylistic details to sort out. A few years earlier, his first foray into the then-nascent genre, American Vice: The Doping of a Nation, had brought live drug arrests to prime time. In 1988, reality-TV producer John Langley was plotting out his next show.
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