John Oliver blasts Law & Order

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HBO’s "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" featured a lengthy segment criticizing the "Law & Order" brand for pushing what he considered a "fantasy" of law enforcement.

The "Law & Order" franchise was created by Dick Wolf in 1990 with the debut of its original show. Since then, the series has spawned several spinoffs which have produced more than 1000 episodes of television.

While the fictional law enforcement series has been seen as a staple of television, Oliver blasted the franchise for being openly "pro-law enforcement."

"For as much as Dick Wolf brags about how the show is written in shades of gray or how it’ll show both sides of an issue, there is one side that it is always on and that’s the police," Oliver said.

He particularly focused on the shows’ habit of portraying upper class White men as the criminals a majority of the time in an effort to cover police’s "structural racism."

"You can see what he might not want to make a show in which his good-guy cops are disproportionally targeting communities of color. He wants people to like them. But the result of all of these creative decisions is that instead of depicting a flawed system riddled with structural racism, the show presents exceptionally competent cops working within a largely fair framework that mostly convicts White people," Oliver said.

He added, "In general, police reforms are often portrayed by the main characters as at best a nuisance to them and at worst a threat to public safety."

Oliver has frequently attacked police officers and Republican figures on his show, often with profanity-laced tirades. In 2021, he blasted police officers who refused to comply with vaccine mandates.

"The constant refrain we hear from cops every time they kill an unarmed, Black person is, ‘They should have complied with commands,’" Oliver said. "Because as long as you comply, things will supposedly go well. But that only seems to work one way. Because when officers are asked to follow simple rules or face consequences, a not insignificant amount of them flip their s--t."

Regarding "Law & Order," Oliver remarked how "if a medical show was giving us inaccurate information, we would say it’s dangerous" yet "that’s essentially what ‘Law & Order’ is doing."

Oliver concluded, "Underneath it all, it is a commercial, a commercial produced by a man who in his own words ‘unabashedly pro-law enforcement' and he is very good at selling things. In this instance he is selling a complete fantasy that many people in this country are only too willing to buy. Which is fine as long as we don’t lose sight of the fact that it’s an ad for a defective product."

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Law & Order Prosecutor Speaks Out About John Oliver's Scathing Critique On Last Week Tonight

Diane Neal agrees with John Oliver, says she's 'embarrassed' to have believed Law & Order

Speaking in a series of tweets, Diane Neal voiced her approval of John Oliver's "Law & Order" segment on "Last Week Tonight" and also revealed how she, too, was duped by Dick Wolf's seemingly-accurate portrayal of police work.

"Did any of you watch @LastWeekTonight with @iamjohnoliver? about the depiction of #lawenforcement on #svu giving victims who report sex crimes in real life unrealistic expectations that the cops will care or crimes will be solved?" Neal tweeted. "I'm embarrassed to admit, I used to think the way it worked on the show was like real life," she said. "Then I found out the hard way I was wrong." Social media users were quick to agree with Neal, with many showering her with praise for speaking up in support of Oliver's claims.

"It's a TV show made partially to trick people into trusting the police," wrote Twitter user @MeowRuka. "It even fooled you," they said, referencing Neal. User @Rebecca18201761 tweeted: "The NYT did an expose on the real nyc SVU and it's under investigation for ignoring victims and not believing them. This was only a month or so ago."

According to The New York Times, the Special Victims Division of the NYPD is currently under federal investigation for allegedly ignoring sexual assault cases and not investigating them properly and more thoroughly. A research firm hired by the Police Department reportedly found that suspects were being identified more than 80 percent of the time during sex assault probes, but over half of the cases were later closed due to an apparent lack of evidence. According to The Times, the research firm also found that police will often refuse to pursue possible leads and evidence related to the assault cases, such as surveillance video and witness accounts. In one instance, cops actually told a rape victim to contact her alleged attacker by phone and speak with him, per the Times. The woman reportedly refused.

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Law & Order Prosecutor Speaks Out About John Oliver's Scathing Critique On Last Week Tonight

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