Ha, police nunchucks. You don't see them much anymore, but for a while there some departments were big on them, especially in Florida and California. Also I like how they played the whole Inner Circle song, and the whole "you're white, you don't belong here" speech shows how much things have changed. They'd edit that out now.
If you want to see the two shows that influenced Cops, here they are -
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You can really see it in the first one. Boy, everyone was less polished and media savvy back then. Good stuff.