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With ‘Live PD,’ A&E Seeks to Display Nuances of Police Work
The new weekly TV show airs real-time footage to chronicle police patrols in six U.S. cities. The host says ‘Live TV’ is fundamentally different from “Cops,” the long-running police reality TV show. “‘Cops’ was about the wacky, crazy moments of people interacting with the police,” he says, while ‘Live TV’ “is really about showing the nuances.”