What about when suspects or perps use a "loophole" to escape justice and then you find out that loophole was the accused weren't read their rights or was abused during an interrogation and had no access to a lawyer. Like the cops didn't do basic police work correctly but it's the suspect who did something wrong. Remember that the rights read to a person under arrest are actual constitutional rights that each American is entitled to and which the police must abide.

Copaganda is real.

There was a Canadian TV show called Corner Gas.

In one of the episodes, the towns police force (two cops) has a real or precived grievance, and decided to work to rule on protest.

By the third act they've discovered that work to rule is more work than they've been doing, the grievance is dropped, and nothing has changed for the next episode.

Mysteries do a lot better than procedurals, because being wrong is intrinsic to the format. The cops on Midsummer are still The Good Guys™ and always get the right person eventually, because a whodunit with no clear answer would be a different genre, but there's ample screen time for a lot of people who are understandably not fond of them.

There's definitely racial stereotypes; mayor Humdinger, a blonde haired blue eyed white man, spends all of his time trying to to appropriate Adventure Bay's resources and stake claim to its governance. My dude even seized the means of government over a metropolis and proceeded to speedrun bad governance. The only way they could have leaned harder into the white stereotype is by putting him in socks and sandals and having him remind people that he's 1/32nd native american and has black friends.

Not that I'm complaining, mind you. Anyway, it's not exactly like Paw Patrol are bashing fash when they stop Humdinger, they're just keeping control over Adventure Bay's resources rather than ceding them to his. It's Saturday morning nationalism.

I am still convinced the show takes place after WW3. Most of the 18-50 year old adults are gone. (The movies don’t count, ridiculous fan fiction) There is a spare population and not a lot of kids, and the ones we do see are being raised by their grandparent, are running a dog grooming business, and Ryder.

Ryder’s parents were likely involved in the dog augmentation weapons program at CalTech with a massive grant from Lockheed. Since his parents are dead, he took over the remains of the program after the war and started the Paw Patrol.

Also Mayor Humdinger is not a real mayor. Foggy Bottom was annihilated and he is the only one left, so he took charge. The derivative kitty augmentation was housed there, and they are all that is left. Why he keeps coming to adventure bay, dude is really lonely.