Name: Police Officer Explains How the Show 'Cops' is Made
Uploaded: 2022-12-30T21:58:44.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Police Officer Explains How the Show 'Cops' is Made' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-12-30. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Police Officer Explains How the Show 'Cops' is Made' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-12-30. Transcript available.

the show cops yeah i actually had cops ride with me you did i did have cops
right with me it's a
you'd be interested in how that goes the way cops operates is is that there's
there's there's a few
film crews there's a sound guy and there's a camera guy and i think i don't
remember how many
men but it was very few like four or five of these teams and these guys were so
interesting um they
essentially go out and by the time they came to our police department it had
really changed uh
because of civil law where you weren't able just to film shit and throw it on
tv you had to get
waivers from everyone that was involved and that involved criminals signing off
saying yeah you can
use that shit which is fucking so stupid if you signed off on that shit you're
the dumbest guy on
the face of the earth because it's all now evidence it could be used against
you in court so it was
really tough to get those guys to sign off but believe it or not you know
unfortunately when it
comes to crime you're not dealing with a lot of scholars so you would get a lot
of signatures but
by then it was a little tougher so what they would do is is they would ride
with you they would pick
an officer and they they i i'm fortunate enough to be picked and they would
ride with you for two
months every single shift yeah and that time i was working 312s which is three
shifts 12 three 12
hour shifts friday saturday sunday which was the busiest that's why a graveyard
so that's why they
wanted to ride with me so you would go out with these guys and it and the man
it was like it was like
it was like performance anxiety you know what i mean it's like oh yeah i felt
this 20s yeah right
jesus i just felt this need to perform man you know and and and it's hard it's
harrowing
police work is some days there's just nothing going on you know you gotta you
gotta self-generate
whether it be tickets and hope you can come up with stuff so i always felt this
pressure to go out but
speaking with these guys and their experiences like the the sound guy had been
shot yeah in the leg
um the other guy something had happened their stories were awesome because they
had been
all over they were telling me stories dude i'm just going like fuck that is so
awesome dude i can't
believe you experienced all this shit that you've experienced i mean these guys
probably walked away
from that show and have mental problems themselves yeah because they they they
essentially were cops all
the time on patrol well imagine you're a sound guy and you're like oh it sounds
like somebody got shot
and then it's fucking you whatever you know i mean they had all these guys had
great stories so
essentially they would ride with you the whole time and the issue became is you
felt so much pressure to
get material oh yeah um that when they rode with me they rode with two
different officers me and another
guy and i literally didn't make the show i literally didn't make the show i
didn't why and the one time i did the guy
wouldn't sign off and they couldn't make the cuts to make it relevant so i they
i literally didn't make
but i actually became really good friends with these guys because we'd spent so
much time and talking
that i i was talking to him i don't now but i was talking to him for quite a
bit calling where you
at and what's going on and wow but the way that they do cops is when when you
watch it it looks like
it's it's it's progressive it looks like this is happening you know i mean and
it never registers
with you and like they go they're in the car and they get the radio call and it's
like oh you know
372 respond to non-breather yeah whatever it is and you see the cop go okay and
then all of a sudden
he's driving and then it cuts away and you see the car making a right hand turn
onto a street and never
really registers you would go well how the did they know he was going there to
be on that thing you know what i mean
i'm a guy that has no idea of the industry and editing all that so it wasn't
until they rode with
me and i watched the cops and i'm and i went well how the are they getting all
these angles and
shit so what ends up happening is find out is they would we would have the
situation they would get out
and they would they would be in it i mean you would have to literally tell
these guys look at dude you
need to step the back you know you need to get behind that car right now i get
it but i i need you to
do that so they were always up on you and they'd be filming and get everything
they can
and then they would go back go hey look at i think this is something we can use
so this is what i
need you to do i need you to drop my camera guy off on that corner and i want
you to go back to this
street and then i want you to fake like you're responding to the radio i'm
going to be in it
filming you you know with the other camera so there's acting involved you know
what i mean and i
was a young kid and i just couldn't do it dude i'm just not an actor you know
what i mean so they
would like be filming so all those guys you see doing it that's all acting up
until the actual scenario wow
but you never really never really crossed my mind no yeah in my mind i'm just
saying oh that makes
sense they have footage everywhere and they're just getting all that you know
that's like they're just
dialed in and getting everything that's yeah you don't even think about that
now they would have
tell me okay now i want you to come and open that door you know what i mean and
then you go back and
watch an episode and go okay now this makes sense why didn't that ever register
with me this is all
bullshit you know i mean except for the actual scenarios themselves yeah you
know they would
just film it raw and they would do their editing magic and and make an episode
but it takes it takes
two months every single night with two different teams for a half hour episode
and they said they
struggle sometimes to get that hope you enjoyed that video and you can watch
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