Police documentaries

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

We seem to be getting more and more documentaries about police activities. They seem to fall into two categories - the car chase and down town misbehaviour at night. At one time, these things were mostly American but a lot of British ones are on our screens right now.

Oh there are a lot of homilies about the car chase miscreants being 'naughty' but I wonder if it does any good. If I was hooligan , it might well tempt me to emulate them. And then, when you see those nice policemen trying to reason with the down town yobs and drunks, you do wonder where it's getting them. Almost tempts me to go down town, get drunk and abuse the world in general if I am going to get treated so cosily. It certainly would if I was homeless.

Any finally, all this police stuff is rather boring and the film quality is dreadful.