Army Vet John Langley Created ‘Cops’ and Changed TV Forever

Langley created “Cops,” the police documentary series that ran for 32 years and introduced cinema verité camera techniques to television audiences.

Many of the people featured on the final season of “Cops” from 2020 weren’t even born when the show premiered on Fox in 1989.

Langley somehow chose Inner Circle’s reggae tune, “Bad Boys,” as the theme song to a show that chronicled the seedy underside of life in inner cities and trailer parks.

“Cops” moved from Fox to cable network Spike TV in 2013 and continued to air after the channel became the Paramount Network in 2018.

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