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Originally Posted by M1903A1

Chicago's virtual absence from movie and TV screens for almost twenty years arose from the late 1950s TV series "M Squad", when a scene of a Chicago cop taking a bribe enraged Mayor Daley. (The fact that it coincided with the Summerdale police theft scandal definitely didn't help matters.) He refused to allow any outside filming in "his" city for the duration of his reign as mayor (although a few movies and scenes were filmed "guerilla style" without authorization).

The use of "Metro Police", instead of "Chicago Police", in movies and TV shows filmed in Chicago in the 1980s and 90s reportedly arose from a single line in the movie "The Blues Brothers". ("Use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers has been approved.") The line was a poke at a certain event in 1968...apparently the Chicago Police brass were not amused.

When Chicago hosted the Democratic Convention in 1996, I had a CPD shirt that said "We kicked your father's ass in '68...wait until you see what we do to you this year".