{"id":154,"date":"2005-03-01T14:20:57","date_gmt":"2005-03-01T22:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/03\/four_out_of_five_real_cops_agree.html"},"modified":"2005-03-01T14:20:57","modified_gmt":"2005-03-01T22:20:57","slug":"four_out_of_fiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/four_out_of_fiv.html","title":{"rendered":"Four Out of Five Real Cops Agree . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that NYPD Blue is ending its 12-year run, real policemen can come clean: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/03\/01\/opinion\/01miller.html?ex=1267419600&#038;en=4b7d4095921bb9ab&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland\">Barney Miller is more accurate<\/a>. NYPD Detective Lucas Miller explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Many police officers maintain that the most realistic police show in the history of television was the sitcom &#8220;Barney Miller,&#8221; far more so than that father of reality TV, &#8220;Cops.&#8221; The action was mostly off screen, the squad room the only set, and the guys were a motley bunch of character actors who were in no danger of being picked for the N.Y.P.D. pin-up calendar. But they worked hard, made jokes, got hurt and answered to their straight-man commander.<\/p>\n<p>For real detectives, most of the action does happen off screen, and we spend a lot of time back in the squad room writing reports about it. Like Barney Miller&#8217;s squad, we crack jokes at one another, at the cases that come in, and at the crazy suspect locked in the holding cell six feet from the new guy&#8217;s desk. Life really is more like &#8220;Barney Miller&#8221; than &#8220;NYPD Blue,&#8221; but our jokes aren&#8217;t nearly as funny.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that NYPD Blue is ending its 12-year run, real policemen can come clean: Barney Miller is more accurate. NYPD Detective Lucas Miller explains: Many police officers maintain that the most realistic police show in the history of television was the sitcom &#8220;Barney Miller,&#8221; far more so than that father of reality TV, &#8220;Cops.&#8221; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}