‘APB’ Hopes to Bring ‘Optimistic Vision of What Policing Can Be’ With Chicago-Set Drama

“This is clearly a city that — between gun violence, drug violence and gang violence, socio-economic disparity of all kinds — is in the midst of a crime-ridden crisis,” executive producer Trey Callaway said during the show’s panel at the Television Critics’ Association’s winter press tour Wednesday in Pasadena, California.

[...] to the extent that we are able to showcase some of those issues and weave them into the real fabric of our drama, and use Chicago as this powerful, potent character as we try to make it in every episode, the show benefits from it.

‘APB’ — it’s fun, certainly — but what we’re trying to do is present a sort of optimistic vision of what policing can be, if people engage creatively, and they bring — I’ll say it — an American spirit to engaging with problems of crime …