http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/03/08/in_praise_of_the_tv_show_cops.html

The 27-year-old Fox staple hasn’t lost a step now that it airs on Spike TV.

Yeah, Cops belongs permanently to Spike rather than on FOX because they can talk about the wild fights on both sides between police and criminals at the same time, but police wins at the end. Secondly, this might override permanently the criminal records of both producers of this show.