It was catapulted into the charts as the theme song for Cops, one of the world's first, most popular and enduring reality television shows. It revealed the nature and extent of the control police departments around the United States had over the production of Cops and how so-called reality television really wasn't that real. The programme has been a high-rating staple of New Zealand television ever since. Is the show "reality television" or is it something else? Police Ten 7 is not so much fly-on-the-wall reality television, but carefully manicured and managed propaganda, unequivocally controlled by the police.

Source: New Zealand Herald March 23, 2021 21:44 UTC