<Ul> <Li> 2016: Critics' Choice Television Award for "Best Unstructured Reality Show" </Li> </Ul> <Li> 2016: Critics' Choice Television Award for "Best Unstructured Reality Show" </Li> <P> Though popular and long - running, Cops has drawn mixed reviews, and raised ethical questions . </P> <P> In the show's third year, 1992, Alan Bunce of the Christian Science Monitor praised the show as network television's "only true' cinema verite' series"--declaring it "innocent of re-enactments," and "free of fancy production effects," while remaining "doggedly faithful to its format ." </P>

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