The TV drama Cops first aired in 1989 on Fox. This action-packed, reality-based series follows real-life police officers in cities across the country while they chase, arrest, or apprehend suspects. Cops has profiled law-enforcement agencies in over 140 different cities in the United States and also has filmed in Hong Kong, London, Central and South America, Moscow and St. Petersburg. It was the first American television program allowed to follow the police in the former Soviet Union.