On this day, March 11, in 1989, the television show “COPS” made its debut on Fox.

The show was an early reality-television program and has become one of the longest-running shows in history. The program documents the work of law enforcement officers by having camera crews follow them on patrol and solving cases. The show is unscripted.

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