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During the tumultuous political protests touched off by the renewed #BlackLivesMatter protests during the Summer of 2020, the Big Picture aired a quartet of episodes dealing with the complex history of depictions of law enforcement in films, television and other popular media; specifically centering on the transition of "The Police" as viewed by American pop-culture as minor public functionaries and even comedic objects of ridicule in "THE KEYSTONE KOPS" films to virtuous symbols of order in Jack Webb's "DRAGNET" and eventually larger-than-life superheroes often in conflict with the society they ostensibly protected in "DIRTY HARRY" and the like - rendering later attempts to explore or even satirize (as in the "POLICE ACADEMY" franchise) law enforcement as a subject difficult and confused at best.

This installment of "THE BIGGER PICTURE" collects these episodes - edited and streamlined into a single narrative for clarity - along with other related episodes of the series and select reviews of police-themed films from "ESCAPE TO THE MOVIES" to provide further context and expand on specific themes and the work of filmmakers like Clint Eastwood or series' like "BAD BOYS."

"THE BIGGER PICTURE" will collect (primarily) more recent episodes of THE BIG PICTURE on a single or related subject into a convenient longer-form feature; edited, annotated and (in certain cases) expanded for topicality. All source content originally published on The Escapist, now property of MovieBob Productions 2020.

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