{"id":6218,"date":"2026-10-21T19:18:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T00:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/21\/mayor-spencer-opposes-slmpd-reality-tv-show\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T19:18:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T00:18:58","slug":"mayor-spencer-opposes-slmpd-reality-tv-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/21\/mayor-spencer-opposes-slmpd-reality-tv-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Spencer Opposes SLMPD Reality TV Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 October 21, 2026 (STL.News) St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer is opposing a proposed reality television series involving the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD), raising concerns about residents\u2019 constitutional rights, privacy, criminal investigations, financial liability, and the authority of the city\u2019s state-appointed police oversight board. The proposal, discussed Wednesday, October 21, during a meeting of the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners, would allow a television production company to document police operations for a potential A&amp;E series associated with television producer Dick Wolf, whose credits include Law &amp; Order and Chicago P.D. <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/OXKZce6R92M\/maxresdefault.webp)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mayor Spencer opposes proposed SLMPD reality series\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OXKZce6R92M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> Police representatives<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/mayor-spencer-opposes-slmpd-reality-tv-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 October 21, 2026 (STL.News) St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer is opposing a proposed reality television series involving the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD), raising concerns about residents\u2019 constitutional rights, privacy, criminal investigations, financial liability, and&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6220,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6218\/revisions\/6220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}