Editing Police procedural (section)

===Biased narratives===
The police procedural genre is becoming increasingly popular and has accounted for about 22% of all scripted shows on US [[broadcast network]] in the last 10 years.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/heres-how-network-tv-depends-cop-shows-1299504 |title=TV long view: How much network TV depends on cop shows |work=The Hollywood Reporter |first=Rick |last=Porter |date=20 June 2020 |access-date=24 August 2020}}</ref> This prevalence implies that viewers are often facing [[TV series]] that place [[police officers]] at the center of the story, showing exclusively their vision of the world. This approach has been denounced as enforcing the idea that the life and views of policemen are more important than the ones of the communities being policed.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vulture.com/2020/06/tv-cops-are-always-the-main-characters.html
|title=Cops are always the main characters |work=Vulture |first=Kathryn |last=VanArendonk |date=1 June 2020 |access-date=24 August 2020}}</ref>
 
In police procedurals, police officers are more often than not presented as the "good guys" or even close to superhuman, leading to a potentially biased narrative.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://slate.com/culture/2020/06/police-procedurals-george-floyd-brooklyn-99-cbs.html |title=Cop shows are undergoing a reckoning – With one big exception |work=Slate |first=Sam |last=Adams |date=3 June 2020 |access-date=24 August 2020}}</ref> Illegal practices are often presented as a necessary decision made in the [[Common good|general interest]]. A report by [[Color of Change]] Hollywood and the USC Annenberg [[Norman Lear Center]] revealed that police procedural shows were normalizing unjust practices such as [[Search and seizure|illegal searches]], [[surveillance]], [[coercion]], [[intimidation]], [[violence]], [[abuse]], and [[racism]].<ref name=":1">{{cite web |url=https://hollywood.colorofchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Normalizing-Injustice_Abridged-1.pdf |title=Normalizing injustice |last=Color of Change Hollywood & USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center |date=January 2020 |access-date=24 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200316034516/https://hollywood.colorofchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Normalizing-Injustice_Abridged-1.pdf |archive-date=16 March 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref>