TV detectives

[NQAS]

Watching a tv detective show. Pretty much all I watch. Just saw a typical scene where the detective is looking through miscellaneous papers on the desk and finds a document that I suspect will lead to finding the murderer.

I have similar piles of paper on my desk. I know what’s in those piles. And I can never find what I’m looking for. In my own fucking papers.

Gotta love tv.

[Sneederbunk]

1. I am perplexed by the police procedurals

where police enter a house at night and search using a flashlight, never bothering to turn the house lights on.

[Walleye]

3. Ha! I've always laughed at that one too

[rsdsharp]

5. CSI was notorious for that. When it was brought back

as CSI Vegas this fall, they were doing it again.

[thucythucy]

2. I love all the times they run a "DNA test" or

such similar forensic test and get an answer within hours.

Meanwhile, in the real world, there are instances of rape kits waiting YEARS to be analyzed.

Much as I find them entertaining, I think most if not all police shows give their audiences a highly misleading notion of what our police forces actually do. I remember watching old episodes of "Dragnet" thinking, "You've got to be kidding me."

[ArizonaLib]

4. Watching Adam-12 a few years ago

Saw the officers knock on a door and yell 'Police - open up!' Then the voice inside asks if they have a warrant. After responding that they did not, the voice inside yelled 'then go away!'. They looked at each other and walked back to their car.

No SWAT team, no battering rams, no military vehicles or weapons.