What are the chances of a Law Order show centered on the members of the Internal Affairs police division becoming a reality in the future?
Law and Order: Internal Affairs
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Slim to none.
C4 did a drama series about this in the UK, I think it was called "The Ghost Squad" I enjoyed it.
Sounds awful.
First thing that popped into my mind.
Might as well make 24: Mole of the Day. Thrill as the weasel undermines the hero and sucks the life out of every scene with petty bullshit!
Unless they made in an arc-based show (who wants to see 22 or more dirty/abusive/cheating cops a season?) and also focused on how being IAB affects one's personal life in addition to work life, it might not work. Plus in the first episode they'd bring down Stabler and Benson and SVU would be finished. 
Law and Order is not very good at arcs, so I won't get my hopes up.
SVU already focuses on how the work affects their personal lifes, and it sucks. Police procedurals should be about how the dectective works the case, not how the case works the detective.
Plus in the first episode they'd bring down Stabler and Benson and SVU would be finished.
OMG, that would be AWESOME! Stabler deserves to be in prison for all the crap he has pulled!
But just to be devil's advocate, it could be like how, on shows about local cops, the Feds are always these holier-than-thou assholes who steamroller into a place they know nothing about and completely fuck up the case, but on shows about federal agents, the local cops are always dumb parochial hicks who won't cooperate with the agents and completely fuck up the case.
^ But we're not talking about federal agents here. We're talking about IA cops, who by their very nature ARE holier-than-thou assholes. No disrespect - I mean, they pretty much have to act that way, given their mission - but not something that makes for good television, IMHO.
FWIW, at least one current L&O cop (Kevin Bernard, played by Anthony Anderson) *is* former IA. But for his part, Bernard said that he was drafted into IA against his will. I wonder how often that happens IRL.
FWIW, at least one current L&O cop (Kevin Bernard, played by Anthony Anderson) *is* former IA. But for his part, Bernard said that he was drafted into IA against his will. I wonder how often that happens IRL.
Ask Dick Wolf and NBC.
In the NYPD, that happens fairly regularly. A recent New York Times article about IAB mentioned that after the bureau was restructured in the early 1990s (during Raymond Kelly's first stint as commissioner), IAB assignments stopped becoming all voluntary.
You are correct and it's not just in NYPD. Many agencies assign people to do this otherwise, they would not get too many volunteers into the office. In the agency I work for, the lead investigator is a Sgt, and his position is appointed by the chief. I haven't known a single Sgt that has enjoyed the position, but we have had a few that were equitable and fair, over the years.
But there's a logic behind drafting people to rolls like IAB when they don't want it - if some-one volunteers for such a role then you might have to wonder if they have an ulterior motive (yes some would have a major hardon against corruption and want to stamp it out but others might not motivated in the same way).
^ Conversely, wouldn't someone drafted into IAB be resentful of it and thus not do their best at it?
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