Far Fewer Cop and crime tv shows

WI Crime were a less dominant theme in TV drama?

Would fear of crime be smaller?

Query- is there any way this could actually happen?
 
I wonder what would have happened if Homicide- life on the (killing) street was never made. Exept Munch not appearing on every damn show known to man. But it wouldn't stop mystery solving shows in general.

The problem is that the mystery format is so good. You have somebody that need to contact people, interact with them and so on. And it is interactive for the audience, they can try figuring out whodunnit.

You can't make the same thing in an doctor show for example, it require some medical background to figure out the more complicated things and the easy stuff, well how hard is it to figure out that the big bleading wound in the chest is bad for you. (As far as I can tell, the good medical dramas are character driven drama.)

Take another cool profession, pilots. You can't really pull of an interesting show featuring pilots. Police, it's easy.
 
Well, in the OTL USA, the authorities can't ban violent subject matter from TV, but they certainly can set limits on how graphic or intense the actual violence is. The FCC's efforts, combined with a general small-c conservatism in the TV business, kept TV depictions of violence to a minimum until the late 1970s. There were still plenty of police procedural shows before then -- Dragnet was huge -- but hey, I'm meeting you halfway, right?
 
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