Shows like Cops
24 series close to Cops (1989) on how it feels, not just what shelf it sits on — with what each one shares with it underneath.
Hawaii Five-O
1969
police
Without a Trace
2002
police
police
Law & Order
1990
police
CSI: Miami
2002
police
Major Crimes
2012
police
police
Kojak
1973
police
police
police
CSI: Cyber
2015
police
21 Jump Street
1987
police · on FOX
Chicago P.D.
2014
police
police
Crossing Lines
2013
police
Reacher
2022
police
Sledge Hammer!
1986
police
APB
2017
police · on FOX
Close on feel · Reality
police
NYPD Blue
1993
police
Nash Bridges
1996
police
police
The Closer
2005
police
More in this territory
Matches are drawn from Cinnamon DB’s emotional fingerprint — a reading of how a series actually plays rather than how it is catalogued — then weighted by shared subject, cast, creator, studio, network and era. Genres include the ones TMDB’s television taxonomy leaves out: it has no Horror category at all, so that one is inferred here rather than missing.