There’s a tidy little piece by James Lileks on the show over at The American Enterprise Online.

Here’s the opening paragraph:

It is conceivable that sometime next year, the television show “COPS” could show the arrest of an adult whose mother was arrested while pregnant with him in the series’ first season 18 years ago. That’s “COPS.”  And that’s a remarkably long TV run

He lists the things you can learn from watching (example: “Best place to look for a bad boy: under the bed in his girlfriend’s”) and then offers some nicely brief and lightly incisive observations about its place in contemporary culture. Worth the click.