This is a seven show "real" reality tv. ABC news followed real NYPD cops, and distilled it down to seven one hour "real" episodes. This show is friggin fantastic! I am a big Amazing Race fan, and this show comes on at the same time....so you have to use your VCR to catch them both.This Tuesday they followed two detectives in Brooklyn trying to solve a horrific kidnap, rape, & murder of a black twenty year old college student. The Black Community, including a local politician, want one of the detectives (a white guy) fired because he did not find the kidnapped girl until it was too late...about two weeks since she was reported missing. Meanwhile this same detective, and another one (who is the main focus of the show) work this case and find two different people in the same community who have personal knowledge of two guys involved in this case. Neither of these people come forward to report what they know. If they had this girl may have been found alive.
The local Black community is picketing the local precinct, but no one is picketing either of these two neighborhood people who knew important facts, and did nothing! The two cops bust their asses to solve this case to catch the one bad guy still on the lam. At the end, an off camera narrator asks the lead detective his thoughts about the case. The guy says it was satisfying enough to catch the bad guys, but if you want to be a hero....join the fire department!
This is gripping stuff. I give this reality show two big thumbs way way up!!! Check it out!