When the head of NBC's Entertainment Division wrote a brainstorming memo that simply read "MTV cops" - the result was Miami Vice. A recently enacted law which allowed law enforcement agencies to use items recovered in the commission of a crime to further unrelated investigations allowed a confiscated Ferrari to be used to enhance an undercover officer's cover as a high-profile drug dealer - which is exactly what happened on Miami Vice.

When the head of NBC's Entertainment Division wrote a brainstorming memo that simply read "MTV cops" - the result was Miami Vice. A recently enacted law which allowed law enforcement agencies to use items recovered in the commission of a crime to further unrelated investigations allowed a confiscated Ferrari to be used to enhance an undercover officer's cover as a high-profile drug dealer - which is exactly what happened on Miami Vice.