ABC Decides To Show What Detroit Is All About: Murder

Huffingtonpost.com: What does it take to be a detective on America’s most dangerous streets? Get ready to be part of the action when a documentary crew rolls with some of Detroit’s finest, offering an insider’s glimpse behind the curtain of a Homicide Unit. The cameras unearth the crisis and revelation, heartbreak and heroism of these inner city cops -- moments of raw exposure when they address us directly, as well as private moments when they forget they’re being filmed. There’s the damaged but driven Detective Louis Fitch, a wily homicide vet who is the most respected -- and most misunderstood -- man in the division; Detective Damon Washington, Fitch’s new partner, who finds the first day on the job is a trial by fire, complicated by the imminent birth of his first child; Detective Ariana Sanchez, sexy, edgy and beautiful, who has emerged from a rough background to become a rising star in the department; Narcotics undercover cop John Stone, a streetwise smooth talker, clever and quick with a smile made for the movies, who is teamed with Sanchez -- a combustible pairing rife with conflict and sexual tension; Sergeant Jesse Longford, a 30-year veteran struggling with his impending retirement from the force and the city he loves, who, together with his partner, Detective Aman Mahajan -- a fully Americanized son of Indian immigrants -- form an amusing mismatch of experience and enthusiasm, intellect and instinct, old school and new world, but whose combined skills have never encountered a case that couldn’t be cleared; and all are headed by Lieutenant Maureen Mason, a strong-willed single mom struggling to balance home and work.

So basically, you're combining Cops, The First 48, and Training Day, setting it in Detroit, and getting the guy who was in the Sopranos to pilot this pile of crap? Hasn't he been on like 10 shows since The Sopranos? When I see him, I don't know if I should watch this show or take a shot of tequila. And Detroit 187? Really? 187 is the police code for homicide. People are probably already depressed by the fact that there is a show about Detroit, let alone murder AND Detroit. This show is doomed to fail. I'll watch it, I'm not saying that I won't, I can just tell I won't like it. If it starts in the fall, I wonder if they'll be covering the case involving the Lions and the massacre at Ford Field?