The hubby and I are watching COPS and wonder if/how they gain consent to show the (purported) criminals faces. Is there some way around this for the show, or do all the criminals sign a consent form to be on the show?
I’ve wondered that same thing. Some are so unflattering! I would be mortified being seen! Although some seem so out of touch they’d probably brag about it.
I’m going to move this to CS.
5 things you didn’t know about COPS.
The article doesn’t mention (perhaps the writer didn’t consider it a little-known fact) that COPS (and indeed all reality television of the early 1990s) was spurred in part by the writer’s strike of 1988.
Someone involved in COPS did an AMA on Reddit a while back. The line they normally use is “If you sign this waiver we can allow you to use the footage to help your case”.