Here's an absolutely boot-licking piece from The Guardian on line-of-duty police deaths from COVID, which was once again the leading cause of death among cops in 2022 as it was in 2021 and 2020.

The article frames the cops as victims of their own heroism.: "Working on the front lines made some face-to-face contact unavoidable – and, as a result, hundreds of law enforcement officers died as Covid swept through the US."

They quote David Dowdy, a self-proclaimed epidemiologist from Hopkins: “[officers] still have to be out there on the streets, interacting directly with people – often with people who don’t have a lot of regard for your health,”

But in Los Angeles it wasn't the people who had no regard for the cops' health. It was precisely the reverse. Working on the front lines may have made contact unavoidable but it didn't prevent masking or vaccines. Cops here refused to wear masks and consequently infected one another and members of the public at astonishing rates.

#Copaganda #COVID #LAPD #ACAB #DavidDowdy #Epidemiology #Bootlicking #LineOfDuty #LosAngeles #TheGuardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/03/covid-police-top-line-of-duty-death-usa-2022

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Mother of God! Is Line of Duty really coming back for a three-part special?
#lineofduty #bentcoppers

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/dec/22/is-line-of-duty-coming-back-three-part-special?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

@mvario not confirmed. Martin Compston has "so much on his plate that we can't plan". From Vicky McClure herself (I've met her). This DOES NOT RULE IT OUT. Merely that we should be patient and wait for statements from other key people like Martin, Adrian and Jed. #LineOfDuty

RT @AudiencesUSA_P@twitter.com

🇬🇧 Le réalisateur de #LineOfDuty et #Bodyguard signe le thriller surnaturel #TheRig tourné en Ecosse, à suivre dès le 6/01 sur Amazon. Avec au casting des visages connus de #LineOfDuty, #GameOfThrones et... #SchittsCreek.

➡️ Découvrez la bande annonce.

http://audiencesusaplus.com/2022/12/decouvrez-the-rig-le-nouveau-thriller-anglais-de-amazon-lance-le-6-janvier-par-le-realisteur-de-line-of-duty-et-bodyguard.html

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AudiencesUSA_P/status/1601304430368165888

@ksimmons thanks for the advice! #DocMartin was my intro to #BritishTV (I know, I'm such a #derlict), but I've since watched through #OnlyFoolsAndHorses, #AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall (the original series), um...#PrimeSuspect, #LineOfDuty (personal fave), #RipperStreet, #DowntonAbbey, so many more. Kind of a smattering of my tastes, lol. Oh! #Broadchurch!

#introduction I'm from Kentucky, work from home manager for an #Engineering #Surveying firm, former owner of 2 dachshunds and a chiweenie (all at the #rainbowbridge, lover of #BritishTV especially #doctorwho #lineofduty #luther #FatherTed , reader of #books (Goodreads Profile: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/4783894-shelle-pennington), and trying to be a positive person in a negative climate.

More hashtags (always with the hashtagging, this one!):

#thesimpsons #KingOfTheHill #bobsburgers #rickandmorty #ResidentAlien #peopleOfEarth #SavedByTheBell #evil #youtube #kenburns #pbs #npr #LineOfDuty #RipperStreet (little bit of everything.)

My gf and I watched #MyPoliceman and I have to say, parts of it were actually quite good. Harry Styles mostly looks like a remorseful puppy, but it kind of fit the role. Gina McKee was pretty good, I have been a fan of hers since #LineOfDuty. My gf kept referring to Patrick as Derrick, which perhaps sums up how much she was following it. 😂 #FridayNightMovies #FridayNight #DateNight

My gf and I watched #MyPoliceman and I have to say, parts of it were actually quite good. Harry Styles mostly looks like a remorseful puppy, but it kind of fit the role. Gina McKee was pretty good, I have been a fan of hers since #LineOfDuty. My gf kept referring to Patrick as Derrick, which perhaps sums up how much she was following it. 😂 #FridayNightMovies #FridayNight #DateNight

#LineOfDuty Staffel 5 ✔️
#serien @filmeundserien

OK - who else on here hates cops, actively opposes #prisons and #policing, fights for #abolition BUT still has some deep-routed cultural love for the deeply problematic crime genre? 😂

Not the real gung-go pro-cop stuff. I can’t stomach that. But usually the outsider/rogue/maverick/genius/righteous cop in a precinct of bad apples type gimmick. (Like how, technically most super-hero stories are cop stories).

I grew up adoring #Columbo mysteries, and watched them with my mother - they will always make me think of her - as well as my best friend. #MurderSheWrote too. #SherlockHolmes, #Monk. Stuff like that. And I really like the books of #MichaelConnelly, which I’ve been reading since I was a teen, as well as a few other #crime writers. I loved #Luther and #LineOfDuty too. All perpetuate the propaganda of carceral logic - the cops ‘have’ to catch the ‘bad’ guy and either jail them, or often outright kill them (which the writer tries to make us root for!) and even corrupt cops are caught by cops and, (we are trained to hope), put in jail by the end. Often they also perpetuate a justification of police brutality too - assault, lies and terror are justified to catch a ‘crook’ by any means necessary, etc., etc… Truly terrible stuff. BUT shamefully enjoyable as a work of fiction still because of a lifetime of tropes and cultural programming.

Anyone else have this problem too? And are there any good anti-cop and anti-carceral murder mysteries out there? Is #ACAB Crime a genre? Should it be? Or do I just need some cultural de-programming? 😂

Thinking out loud here as I’ve just bought the latest Michael Connelly and am excited to read it…

Re-re-rewatching series 2 of Line of Duty. I think there might be some… BENT COPPERS! #LineOfDuty #BBC

@AlexPalombo Finally! Another #BritishTV fan! I love:
#Taskmaster (oh, how I love Taskmaster)
#PeepShow
#FridayNightDinner
#AntiquesRoadshow
#GBBO (except this current season is quite wtaf)
#BritainsBestWoodworker
#GreatPotteryThrowdown
#SewingBee
#LineOfDuty (BENT COPPERS!)
#Unforgotten (Nicola Walker in anything, really)
#StrictlyComeDancing
#ProfessorAliceRobers
#DrJaninaRamirez
#SimonReeve
#BethanyHughes
#ProfessorJimAlKhalili
#WILTY
#OnlyConnect
Etc.etc.

You? ❤️

This series (on One now) of #LineOfDuty is one of the best - look out Steve!!! Yikes.
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Ich bin kein großer Fan von Bingen, aber die aktuelle, sechste Staffel #LineOfDuty hat genau das mit mir gemacht. Eine großartige Storyline, gepaart mit wunderbaren Schauspielern. So geht gutes Fernsehen. Was gucke ich denn jetzt bloss?

#LineOfDuty
S6E4 妈呀这到后面也太黑太明目张胆了，监狱是OCG开的？！

#LineOfDuty
S6E2 Steve怎么这么惨……哭哭

#LineOfDuty S5E5
Steve这tm是萎了吗……

#LineOfDuty
每次都是这样…黑白混淆烟雾弹

To be watched these days: #CityOnAHill (S02), #Pennyworth (S02), #LineOfDuty (S06)