The best thing about "Longmire," which is based on the mystery novels of Craig Johnson, is that it looks and feels quite different from the urban cop shows that predominate on television.
John Hyland is the epitome of an urban cop, his Bronx accent biting as he names the precincts he's worked — "the five-oh, the four-eight, all of them".
"Hill Street Blues," in its time considered a remarkably innovative ensemble production — acclaimed for its vivid camerawork, kinetic pacing, and engagement with the cynical complexities of urban cop life — went off the air in 1987.
In choosing the books to dramatize for the American series, Ms. Eaton looks for someone other than an "urban cop," and, in particular, one with a regional sense of place.
And helps one to overlook the modern urban cop cliches – world-weary black Sarge having to mentor the privileged (gay, white) son of the chief constable; the ever-fab Amanda Abbington having a conflicted affair with said CC, whose charming wife is dying of cancer.
The song he co-wrote for Urban was "Cop Car," about a teen-age trespasser who shares a stolen moment with his co-conspirator: "I fell in love in the back of the cop car".
Republicans versus Democrats, 99% versus 1%, urban versus rural, cops versus minorities, Trump versus well, pretty much anyone who isn't Trump.
A lack of money has got as much to do with the state of urban unrest as rogue cops.
Comey talks about the fact that most cops in urban areas see that "a hugely disproportionate percentage of street crime is committed by young men of color".
In the end, though, Mr. Maple was always more cop than urban theorist.
