Few television genres have evolved quite as radically as the police procedural. Back in the heyday of Dragnet and Columbo, it was all about the case of the week. At the beginning of every episode, a crime was committed, and by the end of every episode, our wisecracking detective had solved it. But, as the years went on, and increasingly disturbing reports of police brutality and systemic negligence started flooding the media, those old cop shows lost a lot of their magic.
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