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To Serve and Protect

To Serve and Protect , also known as Under Arrest on streaming services, is a Canadian reality crime television series that shadows city police in Edmonton , Alberta, Winnipeg ,...

To Serve and Protect, also known as Under Arrest on streaming services, is a Canadian reality crime television series that shadows city police in Edmonton, Alberta, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Vancouver⁠, Penticton, New Westminster, Summerland, and Surrey, British Columbia. A few episodes venture to Las Vegas, and Memphis. The program premiered on KVOS-TV in 1993 using footage shot in 1991 and 1992. It is based on the American television series Cops.

History

The program was created by Dwayne Mitchell and Dan Forrer for KF Media Inc., debuting in 1993 on KVOS-TV in Bellingham, Washington. Most viewers of the hour-long program were located in the Vancouver, British Columbia region. Mitchell filmed five hundred "ride alongs" with the police in the program's first two years. KVOS aired the program on Sunday nights in the 1990s and weeknights at midnight in the early 2000s. Among those featured on the program were future Edmonton Police whistleblower Derek Huff.[1] With a new audience on Netflix, the program is today considered something of a camp classic for its dramatic characters and 1990s aesthetic. As of 2023, 26 episodes are available for streaming on Peacock.

After the first season, the Vancouver Police Department refused to allow the production company on ride alongs after they refused to blur the faces of suspects.[2] Vancouver police constable Anne Drenan said Forrer's "negative attitude after police requested the show black out faces led to the police board deciding ... not to participate further." Drennan said police wanted to protect the identities of people who were arrested but not charged.[3] The provincial government ruled that broadcasting a suspect's face without their consent was illegal.

Dan Forrer, creator of the Netflix series Under Arrest, originally known as To Serve and Protect.

La versión original de To Serve and Protect fue cancelada en 1995. El productor ejecutivo Dan Forrer culpó a "altos cargos del departamento de policía de Vancouver y de la RCMP". [ 4 ] El último episodio incluyó imágenes que, según Forrer, "el jefe de policía de Vancouver, Ray Canuel, sí quería que el público viera". [ 4 ] Afirmó que el jefe de policía quería "impedir que el programa pudiera acompañar a los agentes en sus patrullas porque la aprobación original la había dado el anterior jefe de policía, Bill Marshall". [ 4 ] Varios casos de uso excesivo de la fuerza y ​​maniobras ilegales fueron grabados y emitidos como si fueran rutinarios. El nuevo jefe de policía se sintió horrorizado al ver que el programa mostraba algunas de las tácticas brutales que su fuerza empleaba habitualmente, lo que podría haberlos proyectado bajo una luz negativa.

Forrer y Mitchell consiguieron acceso a otros departamentos de policía y se realizó una nueva ronda de episodios a partir de 1997. La RCMP de Surrey, Columbia Británica, tuvo un papel destacado. Ubicado a treinta minutos al este de Vancouver, el suburbio era famoso por los mullets, los bigotes y los incidentes relacionados con el alcohol. La gente ha comparado la zona con Heavy Metal Parking Lot y Trailer Park Boys . Algunos de los momentos más memorables del programa ocurren durante los episodios de Surrey, algo que llevó al Ayuntamiento de Surrey a revocar el permiso para filmar dentro de la ciudad. El ayuntamiento también contactó a KVOS para retirar todos los episodios basados ​​en Surrey de su paquete de retransmisiones. "Están transmitiendo los mismos incidentes una y otra vez, por lo que la gente tiene la impresión de que esto sigue ocurriendo", dijo la concejala Judy Villeneuve. Ella sentía que el programa retrataba injustamente a Surrey como "plagado de delincuencia". [ 5 ] Forrer estaba indignado. «No vamos a aceptar la sugerencia de que no mostremos algo; es ridículo. Si están presionando a la policía en To Serve and Protect, ¿qué más les están diciendo que hagan?» [ 5 ] Sin embargo, la propia RCMP de Surrey estuvo «preocupada por el programa durante meses y suspendió su participación en noviembre pasado [1997]». El departamento no citó preocupaciones específicas, pero dijo que el programa «no presenta una visión equilibrada del trabajo policial, sino que se inclina hacia los incidentes más sensacionalistas». [ 5 ]

Forrer said the show was unrehearsed, but conceded that the program was formatted for maximum television impact. "We just get in a police car and go wherever they are dispatched. I'm not saying that what we show is 100 per cent of reality but neither is what you see on BCTV News. There are people on the show two or three times, and they're people who are always getting in trouble and causing us all a lot of grief. My sympathy for these people? There isn't any ... It comes down to bleeding hearts and political correctness. They don't like the fact that we embarrass or put some heat on some of these crooks that are on the show."[6][7]

Alternate Versions

Dwayne Mitchell sold a syndicated, half-hour version of the program to American markets in 1997 under the title Mounties: True Stories of the Royal Canadian Police. It reportedly aired in eighty regional markets including Elko, Nevada, St. Joseph, Missouri, Salina, Kansas, Tucson, Arizona, West Palm Beach, Florida, and Agana, Guam. It generally aired around two in the morning. Forrer referred to his show as "filler" for the American market.[5]

This show is available on the video-on-demand streaming services Netflix, Peacock, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Crackle, Tubi and Amazon Freevee (the version on the latter six services provided by FilmRise) under the title Under Arrest with episodes condensed from their original hour length to eight "Best of" seasons with each episode running 20 minutes.[8][9][10][11]

Episodes on Netflix

See also

References

  1. Tomlinson, Kathy (September 27, 2013). "Former Edmonton cop Derek Huff blows whistle on brutality, corruption". www.cbc.ca. CBC News. Archived from the original on September 30, 2013. Retrieved May 20, 2023.
  2. The Vancouver Sun, December 21, 1994
  3. Vancouver Sun, November 4, 1995
  4. 123The Vancouver Sun, November 4, 1995
  5. 1234The Vancouver Sun, August 6, 1998
  6. The Vancouver Sun, March 24, 1995
  7. Victoria Times Colonist, December 14, 1994
  8. Eye, Red (December 29, 2015). "What's streaming on Netflix: January 2016". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved April 21, 2017.
  9. 12"Under Arrest". Netflix. Retrieved April 21, 2017.
  10. "Watch Under Arrest". Amazon.com. Retrieved February 21, 2023.
  11. "Watch Under Arrest". Tubi. Retrieved February 21, 2023.