In “Tom Wolfe’s Los Angeles,” a 1977 one shot TV show on PBS, there was a segment about a cop show in which the producers of such shows were called “jock sniffers” as they tended to idolize and copy the cops they were hanging out with in order to get “local color.”
How did “copaganda” emerge? Because insecure TV producers and writers got caught up in emulating the cops they were hanging out with. They became “jock sniffers,” picking up unearned swagger by their association with real cops.
