believe me -- it was WAY better back then.   See 3 other replies

I appreciate people who aren't obsessed with being politically correct about every topic, but sometimes this show shocks me. The racist jokes, which ironically are told by actors of color, are pretty bad, although I think we need to loosen up and acknowledge differences in culture more often today. But what happens at around 8:00 in the show is disturbing. While the beaten woman is describing her injuries, someone in the audience is cracking up. I don't know that the writers intended for the audience to react that way. I'm learning a lot about America in the 1970's, and it's not all pretty.   See 3 other replies

First off the abused women in most cases refuse to press charges and when police attempt to help they often attack the officer along with the man. This is still the case today. Police are not to attempt to make anyone press charges today pictures are taken and arrest are made without the woman's consent or man if they are abused in a relationship. The humor is a way police deal with any situation that they can't stomach if it becomes real to them. This show is based on real police and not like the fantasy world of most television shows. if you took the job of police work serious you would die young Humor and sexism is the way polie weather they be woman or me keep their sanity. It is a different world and Fish gets beat bye his wife from what i understood everyone knows it in the department my grandfather's friends did him the same way they all knew his wife beat him and they made like he was the abusive one.   See 3 other replies