Live PD is sort of like long-running hit show Cops, except that everything on the show is aired live (with an undisclosed delay) and unedited.
In one instance, a South Carolina mother was watching the A&E show when she found out—along with everyone else watching the show—that her son had been shot dead.
The twice-weekly show is a huge hit, its viewership having grown 92% since it premiered in October, but at the Outline, Ann-Derrick Gaillot calls it "the most disturbing show on TV." The show's creator has said the series is "a natural extension of dashboard cameras and body cameras, and trying to present a more complete story, to answer the public’s call for transparency." But, writes Gaillot, that claim is "absurd."
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