Police TV Shows (
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The police drama, is a subgenre of detective fiction that attempts to convincingly depict the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes. Although traditional detective novels usually concentrate on a single crime, they frequently depict investigations into several unrelated crimes in a single story. Traditional mysteries usually adhere to the convention of having the criminal’s identity concealed until the climax (the so-called whodunit), but common also is where the perpetrator’s identity is often known to the audience from the outset (the inverted detective story). This genre depicts a number of police-related topics such as forensics, autopsies, the gathering of evidence, the use of search warrants, and interrogation.

099 Central

The lives of an elite police unit.

Network:
Airdates: 2002

19-2

A drama surrounding the daily lives of two unwilling partners of the Montreal Police Department, Nick Barron and Ben Chartier.

Network:
Airdates: 2014 - 2017

21 Jump Street

Your friends will be there when your back is to the wall.

Network:
Airdates: 1987 - 1991

A Touch of Cloth

To “touch cloth” means being on the verge of shitting onesself. So … there’s that.

Network:
Airdates: 2012 - 2014

Anna Pihl

A policewoman, who is doing her best at the job, but struggles to be there for her son.

Network:
Airdates: 2006 - 2008

APB

After witnessing a violent crime, a tech billionaire purchases a troubled police precinct, rebooting it as a private police force.

Network:
Airdates: 2017

Backstrom

The Portland Police Bureau’s Elite Special Crimes Unit is led an alcoholic and smoker who is in failing health.

Network:
Airdates: 2015

Blue Bloods

Tom Selleck stars as Frank Reagan, the New York Police Commissioner, and patriarch of the Reagan clan, a multigenerational family of cops.

Network:
Airdates: 2010 - 2024

Bosch

An irreverent homicide detective follows his gut and bends the rules in LA.

Network:
Airdates: 2014 - 2021

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Set in the fictional 99th Precinct of the New York City Police Department, Brooklyn Nine-Nine follows a team of detectives headed by the overly serious Captain Raymond Holt.

Network: ,
Airdates: 2013 - 2021

Clarice

A look at the untold personal story of FBI agent Clarice Starling, as she returns to the field about a year after the events of “The Silence of the Lambs.”

Network:
Airdates: 2021

Cold Case

The Philadelphia homicide squad’s lone female detective finds her calling when she’s assigned “cold cases”, older crimes that have never been solved.

Network:
Airdates: 2003 - 2010