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“Live PD” was touted as a transparent look into policing in America by the show’s production company and law enforcement agencies. But behind the scenes, the show allowed agencies to ask to have footage eliminated before and after the program aired, according to emails, video clips, and records The Marshall Project obtained from law enforcement agencies.

Examples of scenes they asked “Live PD” to delete included a deputy pulling alongside and hitting a fleeing suspect with his door, deputies grabbing a woman named as a victim of domestic violence out of her Washington state home, and a Louisiana officer calling a black man “boy.” The program subsequently did not air parts or all of the videos in these and several other instances, the records show.

The Marshall Project requested records from 47 agencies that participated in the show, and received documents from more than 20 of them, showing that officers were routinely allowed to review footage before it aired. Thirteen of those agencies asked the show not to broadcast certain encounters, according to the records.

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