COPS TV program

[ScooterSissy]

COPS is a television show. It is supposed to be entertainment and they need ratings to stay on the air. You never know how many smarter well-informed people don't agree to the search. They are the ones who don't end up on the show. A person who denies the search request and goes on their way doesn't make for good TV. Who is their right mind is going to allow a search when there are cameramen with bright light shining in their faces. Maybe a wannabee star?

And maybe there are a bunch that do not consent to the searches and they just aren't showing those on television. Maybe they don't show those because people standing up for their rights isn't good television in their minds. Maybe they don't want the public to know they can refuse.

Exactly. Watch the show closely. Virtually 100% (may even bee literally 100%) of the interactions result in an arrest. That's not true in real life. Lots of warning and ticket and release stops in a cops day to day duties. Those aren't shown because they're not good TV.

[VMI77]

Officers will tell a subject, I am here to help you, but you must tell me where anything is that might be illegal. I have even seen an officer lecture a subject the officer has already put in the patrol car, that if he/she had told the officer where the pot was, he/she would not have been arrested.

The I'm from the government and here to help you line was already less than credible by the time I'd graduated high school....and that was a very long time ago.

[Abraham]

The awful things people do that deserve being arrested for is just so depressing I quit watching a long time ago.