1:07:01
- Just wait for these sergeants
down here to come down,
1:07:04
'cause they got all the details.
1:07:06
- Okay. Hey, I was
just wondering -
1:07:08
I just got here to L.A. today -
I can't see the Hollywood sign,
1:07:11
down on the hills there,
down Normandie.
1:07:13
You can't see the sign
'cause of the pollution.
1:07:15
- Right.
- Is there anybody you can arrest
1:07:17
for polluting up the air?
- Absolutely not.
1:07:20
- Nobody?
- No.
1:07:22
- Why is that?
1:07:25
Why is that, Sergeant?
1:07:33
- He's fighting!
1:07:35
- For over a decade,
1:07:37
there has been one show
on American television
1:07:40
that has consistently brought
black and white people together
1:07:43
in an effort to reduce
our fears
1:07:45
and celebrate our diversity.
1:07:48
That show is Cops.
1:07:54
I went to see a former
producer of "Cops"
1:07:56
and executive producer
1:07:57
of World's Wildest
Police Videos:
1:07:59
Mr. Dick Herland.
1:08:01
- Look "liberal" up
in the dictionary
1:08:03
and I think my picture's
in there somewhere,
1:08:05
- So then, you know, why not be
compelled to do, you know,
1:08:10
a show that focuses on, you
know, what's causing the crime,
1:08:15
as opposed to just chasing
the criminals down?
1:08:18
- Because I think it's harder
to do that show.
1:08:20
I don't know what
that show would be.
1:08:22
Anger does well, hate does
well, violence does well.
1:08:24
Tolerance and understanding
and trying to learn to be
1:08:27
a little different than you were
last year does less well.
1:08:30
- Does less well in the ratings.
- Oh yeah.
1:08:32
- Maybe because we,
in the television business,
1:08:35
because we tend to demonize
black and Hispanic people,
1:08:39
then those watching it at home
are going:
1:08:41
"I don't want to help
those people.
1:08:43
I'm not going to do anything
to help them.
1:08:45
Because I hate them now,
because they may hurt me."
1:08:47
You know what I'm saying?
- I know what you're saying,
1:08:50
I'm not sure that's
what we're doing.
1:08:53
I'm not sure we're demonizing
1:08:55
black and Hispanic people, uh...
particularly.