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Police Encounters-America's Warriors [VHS]

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It's a good thing I never pay full price for these kinds of videos, because most of them fall monumentally short of the hype on the box cover. This one is the mother of all rip-offs. The producers took about 15 minutes of very weak (probably left-over) video and turned it into 40 by adding a brief interview with some guy who might have been a cop, and then using a variation on the "how to write a speech" technique: Show what you're going to show, show it, then show what you showed.

Most (if not all) of the footage is of LAPD, and the most "graphic" of it is a scene in which an officer foolishly forgets how to handle an abandoned sawed-off shotgun and pays for his negligence (actually, his finger pays, and in keeping with the rest of the video, you never really see anything).

If you can rent this for a buck at your local library, then *maybe* you might give it a look, but in my opinion it's not even worth that. There's more action in a typical episode of COPS.