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By Pete Kotz in Police bungling
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 4:07 pm
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Kind of like Charlie's Angels, only with fewer bathing suit scenes

Reason Online writer Radley Balko has reviewed the new reality cop show Police Women of Broward County. The show, which has been widely panned, represents a new low in a genre not known for the highest heights, writes Balko:

"Police work is reduced to clownish pranks, adrenalin-inducing raids, and telegenic lady cops edited to invoke S&M fantasies for the shlubs watching at home. No one expects much dignity from cable networks, but you'd think, for example, that the Broward County Sheriff's Department might object to the sexualization of its female officers, or to a national ad campaign insinuating that they're sporting itchy Taser fingers..."

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Penoyer: Fights crime and wears a pink bikini, though not at the same time, which would have been cool
Mike Mooney at our sister site New Times Broward-Palm Beach doesn't have a much higher opinion as he encapsulates the show's first month on TLC:

So after the first four episodes of Broward's double-X chromosome show, the main characters are getting a little more fleshed out. We've seen Detective Andrea Penoyer scream at crack heads, mother her son (sometimes seconds before screaming at crack heads), go to the beach in a hot pink bikini with some fellow attractive BSO women (where she explained that she isn't afraid of crack heads, but sea urchins are too much), shop for guns (instead of purses, she explains), and generally wheel around Broward county cracking skulls and hauling people to jail (at which time Penoyer is likely to say, "you're going to jail, have a nice day!").

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