Am I blind or just dumb? That's a great question, gives you great credibility right off the bat. No, I'm neither. What about you and your cop friends? If Southland truly is an "accurate depiction" then at least your cop friends must be the latter.
Well then, here's what I have learned about cops from Southland.
-It's ok for cops to yell out profanities to pedestrians from their patrol cars
-Sometimes cops will just laugh about criminal activities happening right in front of their face instead of dealing with them as they should
-Cops constantly undermine each others professionalism and argue in public, in complete disregard of maintaining professional credibility and authority
-Sexist remarks towards female officers are tolerated
-Fake strangling your fellow female officer in public is fine, no need to uphold the image of respectable police officers that people can count on
-An officer is apparently allowed to pretend to be carrying out a legally valid procedure as a distraction to deal with domestic disturbances, for example granting a divorce with his badge
-If a cop needs to bring his favorite actor in for questioning, it is ok to just share some cigars with him in the patrol car and then let him go
-An off-duty officer can wear his uniform, badge, gun and everything to a party and get wasted
-It's fine for a cop to shoot fully automatic illegal live ammo weapons in a populated area with a parolee
-Finding a fellow officer handcuffed to a bed in a party is a great laugh, especially since his gun has been stolen
-You won't be charged with stealing an officers gun as long as it happened in a celebrity party
That's what I learned in just three episodes. You cannot seriously tell me that that's accurate. I think the cops you talked to connected with the series emotionally, and just ignored all the stupid stuff. And that Johnny Knoxville look-a-like act-a-like, definitely there just for comedy. Pretty much half of the street patrolling so far has been just cops clowning around, neglecting their duties. How can any self respecting cop admit that this is an "accurate depiction"?
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