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The Cop Show is an idealised representation of the police. Morality is very black and white, being a cop is far more dangerous than it really is, shoot-outs are common, as are car chases. They always get their man.

Specific variants: Buddy Cop Show.

See also: Crime Time TV, Forensic Drama, Police Procedural.

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Examples

• Adam-12
• Ashes to Ashes
• Alarm für Cobra 11
• Alien Nation
• Blue Heelers
• Blue SWAT
• Boomtown
• Bookhunter
• Cagney And Lacey
• CHiPs
• Death Note; partially
• Detroit 1-8-7
• The District
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• Dragnet
• Disney also made a send-up of this with Fillmore!!, which follows the adventures of a middle-school safety patrol.
• Flashpoint
• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, to an extent.
• Grimm
• GSG-9
• Hawaii Five-O
  • Hawaii Five-0
• Identity.
• Kidou Keiji Jiban
• Life on Mars (2006)
• Life on Mars (2008)
• Memphis Beat
• The Mod Squad
• Nash Bridges
• NCIS
  • NCIS Los Angeles
• NYC 22
• Rizzoli And Isles
• Rookie Blue
• Rush
• Saving Grace
• The Sentinel
• SP - A Japanese police show which centered on the Metropolitan Police's Security Police Division
• SWAT
• The Sweeney
• Taiyou ni Hoero (Bark at the Sun), a Japanese police show that first aired in the Seventies. It had majorly influenced every Japanese Cop Show since; references and comparisons to it — even snatches of the Instrumental Theme Tune — are now almost inescapable. (The show was in the thematic vein of Starsky & Hutch, except with a Hill Street Blues-sized ensemble cast.)
• The Case Files of Yakushiji Ryoko
• Tokkei Winspector
• Tokusou Exceedraft
• Tokusou Robo Janperson
• Tokkyuu Shirei Solbrain
• TJ Hooker
• The Untouchables
• The Unusuals
• Police Squad!! was a parody.

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