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Shawn Ryan<\/a>‘s “The Shield<\/a>” is widely regarded as one of the best crime dramas of all time; however, there were reservations about making the series. When the show was in development in 2001, it was picked up days before 9\/11 happened. The tragedy in New York City prompted concerns that a show about crooked cops would be perceived as an indictment of real-life law enforcement officers. But when Denzel<\/a> Washington<\/a>‘s “Training Day<\/a>” \u2014 a movie about detectives doing bad things \u2014 was released shortly afterward, its success showed that the post-9\/11 climate could handle entertainment of this ilk.<\/p>\n

“‘Training Day<\/a>‘…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shawn Ryan‘s “The Shield” is widely regarded as one of the best crime dramas of all time; however, there were reservations about making the series. When the show was in development in 2001, it was picked up days before 9\/11 happened. The tragedy in New York City prompted concerns that a show about crooked cops […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2294695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2294694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/A-Denzel-Washington-Movie-Saved-One-Of-TVs-Greatest-Cop.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2294694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2294696,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294694\/revisions\/2294696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2294695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2294694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2294694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2294694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}