As a kid I remember thinking that the joke with Chief Wiggum and the rest of the Springfield cops was that they were so lazy and terrible at their jobs and that it was meant to be seen as silly because real cops weren’t like that…and then I grew up and I realised “Oh shit wait no this is full on what cops are actually like” “
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If anything the cops in the Simpsons are less terrible than real ones because at least they’re “Only” lazy and incompetent