1. They broadcast COPS! edited style stuff intermixed with the supposed pure live stuff to cover "gaps"
2. A&E imposes a delay of unknown length specifically so that they can turn it off if confidential material appears, or "otherwise inappropriate material." By design it is not truly live.
3. Since we're snarking about meanings of words, why don't you pull out a dictionary and look up "inappropriate"? Then think about it before trying to *get* a liberal . If you do that, you'll realize that some TV employee(s) determines what is and is not "inappropriate" and is or is not shown.
4. Just a teensy-weensy bit of further brain usage will lead one to a painfully obvious conclusion: the worst cops are the ones least likely to agree to participate, while the most upright cops are the most likely to participate. Ain't logic grand? And what does logic further suggest? That therefore, your are most likely to see cops behaving well and least likely to see them behaving poorly.
See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_PD
...and sources linked....
See also:
realscreen.com/2016/10/28/ae-walks-the-police-beat-with-live-pd/
Stating, for example,:
The Big Fish Entertainment-made series (8 x 120 minutes) will pull in 30 live feeds from six cities across the country in a bid to offer an unfiltered look into a typical Friday night for men and women in blue. Those feeds will then be transmitted via 4G technology to a New York-based studio where ABC News chief legal analyst Dan Abrams, alongside Dallas Police Department detectives Rich Emberlin and Kevin Jackson (all pictured above), will provide audiences with insight into what they’re viewing in real time, while offering an inside take on each live incident. . . At the discretion of lawyers, A&E and Big Fish have implemented various measurements to ensure the potential of broadcasting intense and disturbing content across live cable television has been minimized. As such, the series will air on a fluctuating yet slight tape delay to avoid graphic or compromising content with the option of cutting to multiple angles of coverage or switching locations also available to the executive producers.The majority of footage will be recorded through dash cams, fixed rig, handheld, and multiple producer cameras. But production teams are filming pre-recorded packages with law enforcement during the week to further ensure the live series is both entertaining and informative during each two-hour primetime block.
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Don't I understand the word LIVE, indeed. Anyone could have and should have guessed that whomever produces the show is obviously going to have discretion over what actually does and does not show. Meet a confidential informant, time to switch feeds. Someone crawls out of a wreck with their arm torn off and bone protrudcing, time to switch feeds. Etc etc etc.
BECAUSE DUH!
But yeah, keep snarking at me....
/snort