Netflix is still streaming cop shows, even though they legitimize police
violence.

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Tell Netflix to remove cop shows from their platform.

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Dear John,

Officials decided not to charge Breonna Taylor’s murderers with
homicide.^1 And in doing so, they have chosen to legitimize police
violence instead of punishing it.

At the same time, television shows centering flawed-yet-heroic police
officers remain popular, and they’re especially prominent on streaming
platforms like Netflix.^2 We’ve asked Netflix repeatedly to remove cop
shows from their platform, explaining that cop shows, like “Caught on
Camera,” Under Arrest,” “Border Security: America’s Front Line,” and too
many more to name, have dire, real-life consequences for Black
people.^3 Breonna’s murder, for example, is normalized by the very common
flawed-yet-heroic narrative that’s ever-present on cop shows. But Netflix
won’t do it. 

[ [link removed] ]Police are harmful, not heroic. Tell Netflix to remove cop shows from
their platform. 

In a moment like the one we’re in now, we can’t afford for cop shows to
keep streaming. Cop shows legitimize the systemic harms and brutal
violence police perpetrate, and we simply can’t let it continue.^4 With
every cop show that remains streaming, police violence is glorified and
normalized in real life. This summer, we fought to get ‘Live PD’ and
‘Cops’ canceled because of how these shows contributed to real-world
violence against Black people. Now, we need all other cops shows to go,
too.^5 

Our lives are at stake. [ [link removed] ]We can’t let cop shows to continue to stream.
Tell Netflix to dump cop shows NOW.

Until justice is real, 
—Jade, Arisha, Rashad, Johnny, Amanda, Marie, Evan, Imani, Eesha,
Gabrielle, Samantha, Jennette, Ciera, Marcus, FolaSade, and the rest of
the Color Of Change team

References: 

 1. “Kentucky grand jury declines to file homicide charges in death of
Breonna Taylor,” The Washington Post, September 23, 2020,
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 2. “Cops Are Always the Main Characters,” Vulture, June 1, 2020,
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 3. “NCIS: The Worst Thing Each Main Character Has Done,” ScreenRant,
February 21, 2020,
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 4. “Cops Are Always the Main Characters,” Vulture, June 1, 2020,
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 5. “Inside Color of Change's Renewed Fight Against Police Procedurals:
‘These Shows Have an Agenda,’” The Hollywood Reporter, June 25, 2020,
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Image: [ [link removed] ]Pedro Nekoi/Vulture


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