A stronger comparison, given Brown and Reese's own histories, would be a real-life cop drama.
Despite it all, real-life cop Sarah, who admittedly "played like a criminal," had a stellar run this season, managing to backstab the best of the best.
You see, Carl Marino, who plays Kenda like a young Harrison Ford, if young Harrison Ford had done film noir with a cigarette perpetually dangling from his lips, was a real-life cop before becoming an actor.
In one scene Frank is worked over by a band of plainclothes detectives, all played by real-life cops and criminals.
In his final days Mesrine, a preening, megalomaniacal celebrity criminal, drunk on his own notoriety, baited the police in a real-life cops-and-robbers farce that would have been funny were it not so lethal.
In the tradition of the real-life Cops program, the entire episode was shot on videotape and featured several members of the cast and crew of Cops.
As well as Olisa and Hogan-Howe, we are presented with a picture of real-life cops on a real-life patrol, dealing with angry activists and members of Duggan's family.
Based on the real life story of Nebraska cop Kathy Bolkovac, who gets a job with an international peacekeeping force in post-war Bosnia, the new movie is a thriller in which some members of the UN and U.S. State Department collude with contractors in the lucrative trade of human trafficking.
"We are not saying an auxiliary cop, in real life, shot someone".
Coping with real life clinical problems means coping with unfamiliar situations.
