Nightmare Fuel / COPS (1989)

• One episode had an Officer's car stuck on the train tracks all while a train was slowly moving towards it. Granted, he does get help from some officers to move the vehicles off the tracks (and they move it successfully) but this scene is still Paranoia Fuel. Just imagine if the train suddenly came speeding down the tracks and the officer was still in the car...
• It's rare, but when the officers have to use their guns, it's usually frightening and sudden.
• How erratic and unpredictable some of the criminals act, especially the drug users.
• One episode had a man calling the cops to inform them that he had shot and killed his best friend in self-defense. However, upon viewing the man's body and its position (where he was slumped onto the floor, his eyes wide open and with a slice of pizza dangling out of his mouth), it was pretty obvious that there was much more to the story than what he had told him and the officers subsequently arrested him.
• In general, all the drunks that the police catch on the road. Think how many people were sharing the road with them, and how close they might have come to getting hurt because this one idiot won't call a friend, a cab, or just sleep it off. Heck, although it's completely unofficial, in some smaller jurisdictions the police themselves will, depending on the situation and/or their workload at the time, give you a ride home.
• The 1991 "Homicide" special edition for obvious reasons. The intro alone included dead bodies both covered and uncovered, trails of bloodshed and other terrifying imagery.

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