Syndication, however, has indeed proven problematic ; shows such as Fear Factor, COPS and Wife Swap in which each episode is self-contained can indeed be rerun fairly easily, but usually only on cable television and / or during the daytime ( COPS and America's Funniest Home Videos being exceptions ).

The earliest example ( and the longest running reality show of any genre ) is COPS which has been airing since 1989, preceding by many years the current reality show phenomenon.

For their bravery and heroism they received awards and commendations, including official thanks in the form of resolutions passed by the state legislature and the National Association of Police Organizations TOP COPS award, which was given during a ceremony at the White House, conducted by president Bill Clinton.

" He worked with cinematographer Darius Khondji and adopted a simple approach to the camerawork, which was influenced by the television show COPS, " how the camera is in the backseat peering over people's shoulder ".

The show is a satire of the Fox Television show COPS, which follows actual police officers through their daily duties ( often chasing criminals and intervening in domestic disputes ).

Unlike COPS, which the show parodies, Reno 911!

A familiar example of pixelization can be found in television news and documentary productions, in which vehicle license plates and faces of suspects at crime scenes are routinely obscured to maintain the presumption of innocence, as in the television series COPS.

John Langley ( born June 1, 1943 ) is an American television and film director, writer, and producer who is best known as the creator and executive producer of the long-running television show COPS, which premiered on FOX in March 1989.

His most notable achievement perhaps is the innovation of the " video verite " signature style of the award-winning COPS television program, which notably influenced TV advertising and news reporting, not to mention other network and syndicated programming.

Morgan Langley is credited as co-creator of the new series, which incorporates the video verite style of COPS.

She later found success with Reno 911 !, a series on Comedy Central that parodied police reality shows like COPS, which also featured former members of the State, Thomas Lennon, Ben Garant, and Joe Lo Truglio.

COPS ( Computer Oracle and Password System ) integrates around 12 small security check programs which review the security

COPS is generally considered obsolete, but it is not uncommon to find systems which are set up in an insecure manner that COPS will identify.

An example of the film's comedic tone comes in the opening monologue, which spoofs the opening of COPS: " TROOPS is filmed on location with the men of the Imperial Forces.

The Political and Security Committee ( PSC or " COPS " from its French acronym ) first established as an interim body in 2000 is described by the Nice European Council Conclusions as the " linchpin " of the European Security and Defence Policy and the Common Foreign and Security Policy.

Among notable software designed and / or supervised by Spafford include the freeware Tripwire tool coded by his student Gene Kim ( Spafford was later the chief external technical advisor to the Tripwire company during their first few years ), and the freeware COPS tool coded by his student Dan Farmer.

Some of the latter included the Star Wars / COPS parody, Troops ( directed by Kevin Rubio ), The Dancing Cow ( directed by Taz Goldstein, cinematography by John A. Alonzo ), The Killer Bean 2, The Second Comeback and Paranoid ( adapted from the poem by Stephen King — the first Dollar Baby ever released on DVD ).

COPS 2170: The Power of Law is set in the same " Reality 4. 13 " universe that first appeared in Paradise Cracked.

In a summer course in 1989, in order to graduate from Purdue University he started the development of the COPS program for identifying security issues on Unix systems under Gene Spafford, first releasing it after leaving Purdue in late 1989.

COPS was the first common Unix computer system security scanning tool,

COPS has broken records for primetime network television with nearly 800 episodes aired ( as of 2008 ).

A FOX staple since 1989, COPS is, as of 2010, in its 23rd season, having outlasted all competing scripted police shows.

After serving as a field producer for the reality show COPS in 1989 and then producing and creating the ABC series American Detective, Stojanovich executive produced a series of crime reality shows, including World's Scariest Police Chases and Ultimate Police Challenge.

In fact, Langley is often credited as being the " Godfather of Reality Television " with the appearance of COPS in 1989.

It came into existence with few shopkeepers in the end of 1980s like COPS JEANS.

He wrote that then-NBC programming chief Jeff Zucker, who came into a meeting Hockenberry was having with Dateline executive producer David Corvo, said Dateline should instead focus on the firefighters and perhaps ride along with them à la COPS, a Fox reality series.

COPS specifies a simple client / server model for supporting policy control over Quality of Service ( QoS ) signaling protocols ( e. g. RSVP ).

In the Provisioning Model, see RFC 3084 COPS Usage for Policy Provisioning ( COPS-PR ), the PEP reports its decision-making capabilities to the PDP.

See for links to some COPS implementations.

As originally written, the sheriff's department material would have served as link material between traditional comedy sketches ; the canceled project was being considered for the Fox Saturday lineup, and the team thought at the time that the COPS format was a natural framework for sketch comedy.

Reality television has long existed in the United States, both played for laughs ( Candid Camera, Real People ) and as drama ( COPS, The Real World ).

During his time on the city council, Cisneros formed a relationship with Communities Organized for Public Service ( COPS ), a powerful grassroots Latino advocacy group founded in 1973 whose focus was to push for development funding into the city ’ s Latino communities.

He also consulted police bureaus around the country on the topics of community policing and strategic planning and was considered for the job of Top Cop in the Clinton Administration to head up their COPS Office.

The store was also frequented by screenwriters Josh Olson ( A History of Violence ), Jeff Maguire ( In the Line of Fire ), John Langley ( the creator of COPS ), and Danny Strong, most famous for his role as Johnathan Levinson on television's Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

The U. S .- based Fox network established a permanent sports block on Saturday night in 2012, carrying a range of sports including college football, NASCAR and the Ultimate Fighting Championship ( this block displaced Fox's long-running reality series COPS from its time slot of over two decades ); ABC carries Saturday Night Football ( college football ) during the fall, then switches to movies for the rest of the year.

After attending an IAF training in Chicago and organizing in Wisconsin and Indiana in the early 1970s, Cortés returned to his hometown of San Antonio in 1974 to found Communities Organized for Public Service ( COPS ), the nationally recognized church-based grass roots organization of San Antonio ’ s west and south side communities.

This event was a hallmark for many police shows like Adam-12, Hill Street Blues, COPS, and Reno 911 !.

* Common Open Policy Service ( COPS ) for Quality of Service

During the 2010 / 2011 television season, Langley was also responsible for the following series running concurrently: COPS, Jail, Las Vegas Jailhouse, Street Patrol and Vegas Strip.

Langley has won various awards for the COPS television series, including the American Television Award and four Emmy Award nominations.

His DVDs, moreover, have won various awards for greatest sales records in the mid 1990s when he founded Real Entertainment and pioneered the reality DVD market with VHS releases of multiple reality titles like COPS: Too Hot for TV and The Amazing Video Collection.

These programs look for ( from the COPS README. 1 file ):

* Citeseer entry for the COPS Usenix paper