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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 358845" data-attributes="member: 463">Typical shows - Law &amp; Order, NYPD Blue, Homicide: Life on the Street.&nbsp; UK shows like 'The Bill'.&nbsp; The cops seek to promote Law/Order, at any rate they don't seek to increase Chaos!&nbsp; As for morality, I wasn't discussing good vs evil, but generally the cop protagonists are good, or neutral-to-good, and the criminal antagonists are evil.That there's moral ambiguity when eg a cop beats up a scumbug suspect, or when a cop shoots dead the criminal kingpin they can't get a conviction on, doesn't change the fact that the cops are seeking to promote Law/Order in an 'end justifies the means' way.&nbsp; Few if any cop shows have corrupt (Neutral?) bribe-taking, criminal-helping cops as protagonists, they tend to appear only in shows like 'The Sopranos' where the protagonists are criminals, and may be Chaotic: Tony Soprano isn't Chaotic, but several of his minions appear to be.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 358845, member: 463"] Typical shows - Law & Order, NYPD Blue, Homicide: Life on the Street. UK shows like 'The Bill'. The cops seek to promote Law/Order, at any rate they don't seek to increase Chaos! As for morality, I wasn't discussing good vs evil, but generally the cop protagonists are good, or neutral-to-good, and the criminal antagonists are evil. That there's moral ambiguity when eg a cop beats up a scumbug suspect, or when a cop shoots dead the criminal kingpin they can't get a conviction on, doesn't change the fact that the cops are seeking to promote Law/Order in an 'end justifies the means' way. Few if any cop shows have corrupt (Neutral?) bribe-taking, criminal-helping cops as protagonists, they tend to appear only in shows like 'The Sopranos' where the protagonists are criminals, and may be Chaotic: Tony Soprano isn't Chaotic, but several of his minions appear to be. [/QUOTE]

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