Posted on June 10, 2020

Townhall Exclusive: ‘COPS’ Creator Reveals Intentional Distortions on Race and Crime

Guy Benson, Townhall, May 31, 2011

[Editor’s Note: In light of the recent announcement that the television show COPS is being cancelled due to the latest wave of anti-police sentiment, we are re-running the below news item from 2011.]

{snip} Ben [Shapiro] has provided another short clip exclusively to Townhall, this time featuring an interview he conducted with John Langley, the creator of the long-running FOX program, COPS. Langley says he’s irked by some media critics who accuse the show of perpetuating stereotypes about “people of color” by depicting a disproportionate percentage of minority suspects. Au Contraire, Langley protests, he intentionally shows an inordinate number of white suspects in order to side-step the facts. “I show more white people than, statistically, what the truth is.” {snip}