ADAMS COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — The long-running tv program “COPS,” which follows members of native police departments whereas on the job, is headed to Adams County, the place they are going to quickly be producing their newest season with the sheriff’s workplace.
“I feel it’s at all times been a want for folks in our neighborhood to see their native companies on ‘COPS,’” Adams County Sheriff Rick Reigenborn mentioned.
“COPS” was canceled by Paramount Community in 2020 following protests in opposition to police brutality within the wake of George Floyd’s homicide by now-former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
“It gained’t be the ‘COPS’ of 1990. It’ll be extra progressed to 2022,” Reigenborn mentioned.
The sheriff mentioned he isn’t certain what manufacturing will likely be like however he imagines it’ll be much like how the present was filmed in 2017 and 2018, additionally in Adams County underneath a distinct administration.
“There isn’t a price. It’s no price to us. No price to them,” Reigenborn mentioned, including there’s no monetary profit to taking part.
“Let people see what we’re doing right here on a nightly foundation in Adams County,” Reigenborn mentioned.
It’s one thing the sheriff tried to do on his personal just lately, when he live-streamed nights on patrol, including a police pursuit.
According to The Hill, “The community will premier the thirty third season of the long-running actuality TV police present by way of its streaming community Fox Nation on Oct. 1, the community introduced. The debut will embrace the primary 4 episodes of the brand new season, and every new installment of the present thereafter will drop weekly on Friday nights.”
FOX31 and Channel 2 requested a number of folks in a car parking zone in Adams County what they considered the present coming to movie of their space. Many mentioned they had been excited and a few informed us assume it’s odd, however a majority mentioned they imagine the content material is there.
“Based mostly on my neighborhood, there was a homicide, there have been cops referred to as on my ex-boyfriends, there was loads of police exercise in my neighborhood,” Jessica Snow, who lives in Adams County, mentioned.