History YMMV / COPS

* WhatAnIdiot: Berserko

* WhatAnIdiot: The way a lot of suspects get caught.

* UnfortunateImplications: The show has been accused of this for its focus on poor people and minorities. Also, some police departments (such as UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}, UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}, [[{{Hawaii}} Honolulu]] and Orlando) have refused to allow the show to film them [[strike:because they lost too many Police Brutality cases due to footage being used as evidence]] because they claim that it trivializes police work.
** Statistically speaking, there is a higher rate of crime amongst minorities and poor people than there is for the average person. It's more of an unfortunate implication if they don't include people from those backgrounds as its showing less realism and accuracy

* UnfortunateImplications: A one-shot villain whose gimmick was controlling bugs had a pet weevil called... Gaylord. What's worse is the fact that "Gaylord" '''is''' a real name and not just some childish, homophobic insult, but try telling someone these days that fact.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Any time the cops have to get out the Tasers for suspects that just don't get the point of being arrested, like [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7HbBMuumos this man in his underwear in a Carl's Jr.]], or the guy in the Cincinnati apartment that just kept goading the police into giving him the shock after twenty minutes of useless negotiation to keep him away from somebody else.

* HilariousInHindsight: A [[WalkerTexasRanger Texas Ranger named Walker]]?

* UnfortunateImplications: A one-shot villain whose gimmick was controlling bugs had a pet weevil called... Gaylord. Yeah.
** Believe it or not, that '''is''' a real name.

* UnfortunateImplications: The show has been accused of this for its focus on poor people and minorities. Also, some police departments (such as [[TheWindyCity Chicago]], UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}, [[{{Hawaii}} Honolulu]] and Orlando) have refused to allow the show to film them [[strike:because they lost too many Police Brutality cases due to footage being used as evidence]] because they claim that it trivializes police work.

** Comedians and commentators often note how often male suspects being taken into custody will be lacking a shirt.

* LighterAndFluffier: Early episodes had cases often end without resolution, and sometimes would focus on more serious incidents, such as investigating a murder scene, or examining a discovered skeleton to determine who it was and how they died. As the show went on, less serious crimes such as domestic assault or resisting arrest took the spotlight.

* PoliceBrutality: Jello Biafra once joked that one of the main subversive purposes of the show is to numb people of to the instances of police brutality via glorifying the police as good guys and the criminals that they catch as bad guys.
** Several high profile officers featured on the show have had police brutality run-ins thrown at them when they weren't being filmed. In one instance, a North Las Vegas officer was ultimately fired from his job due to a police brutality complaint and was rendered an {{Unperson}}, not named when unused footage of him ended up appearing in the spin-off show "Street Patrol".
** Another deputy in Pierce County, WA was charged with police brutality for roughing a homeless man thought to be a burgler in an episode of the show; while he was ultimately cleared of the brutality complaint, he is currently being sued by the homeless guy for said excessive force.
** There are episodes where every single clip they show features a Tazer being used.

* UnfortunateImplications: The show has been accused of this for its focus on poor people and minorities. Also, some police departments (such as [[TheWindyCity Chicago]], [[MotorCity Detroit]], [[{{Hawaii}} Honolulu]] and Orlando) have refused to allow the show to film them [[strike:because they lost too many Police Brutality cases due to footage being used as evidence]] because they claim that it trivializes police work.

[[AC:[[Main/{{Cops}} TV Series]]]]

* FridgeHorror: The Big Boss's coat is buttoned with ''police badges''.

* What An Idiot: Berserko

* TearJerker: "The Case of The Blitz Attack". Even if you're not a dog person (this troper isn't), I dare you to not have a lump in your throat watching this episode. (Issue #5 of the comic, while almost identical, was even worse.)

* UnfortunateImplications: A one-shot villain whose gimmick was controlling bugs had a pet weevil called... Gaylord. Yeah.

* TearJerker: "The Case of The Blitz Attack". Even if you're not a dog person (this troper isn't), I dare you to not have a lump in your throat watching this episode. (Issue #5 of the comic, while almost identical, was even worse.)

[[AC:WesternAnimation/{{COPS}} Cartoon show]]]]

[[AC:[[AnimatedSeries/{{COPS}} Cartoon show]]]]

** Several high profile officers featured on the show have had police brutality run-ins thrown at them when they weren't being filmed. In one instance, a North Las Vegas officer was ultimately fired from his job due to a police brutality complaint and was rendered an Unperson, not named when unused footage of him ended up appearing in the spin-off show "Street Patrol".

* Several high profile officers featured on the show have had police brutality run-ins thrown at them when they weren't being filmed. In one instance, a North Las Vegas officer was ultimately fired from his job due to a police brutality complaint and was rendered an Unperson, not named when unused footage of him ended up appearing in the spin-off show "Street Patrol".

* FetishFuel: The show has a fanbase amongst gay men with uniform/glove wearing cop fetishes.
** Generally speaking, episodes set in Pierce County, Washington/Riverside, Washington (as the two has since split it's police force into local sheriff's office and county deputies), are high on fetish fuel if you like your cops attractive and wearing black leather gloves at all times.

*

* PoliceBrutality

[[AC:[[AnimatedSeries/COPS Cartoon show]]]]

[[AC:[[AnimatedSeries/COPS Cartoon show]]

* WhatAnIdiot: The way a lot of suspects get caught.