• NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 months ago

    Exactly. Literally every other part of law enforcement is vilified, including all precincts other than the 99, federal law enforcement (mail police(?)), lawyers (defence lawyers definitely, I don’t remember if prosecutors were really present).

    Honestly I don’t know if the show had a pro-cop agenda. If it did, it failed to deliver it, but I don’t think it even did. I think they just wanted to make a high-energy sitcom about cops, and they didn’t want to make the main cast unlikable.

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      3 months ago

      Defence lawyers are only really vilified for opposing the police. After all, they’re helping someone the police arrested, and everyone the police arrest are evil, right?

      • OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        In the show, defense attorneys were called out for being knee deep in the system and their careers holding more value than ‘justice’, or that’s how I read into the Jake-dating-a-lawyer episodes. Her boss was dirty, she was mad he exposed that and jeopardized her career.