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Thursday, February 10, 2011

New crime shows all over TV

New crime shows all over TV. I literally cannot even keep up with them all.

Shows like:

Detroit 1-8-7 (as in MURDER).

Chicago Code (about a new, female police official who wants to clean up the city and ends up targeting a major public official for corruption -- an assassination is made against her life and a cop is killed, all in the first episode along with several other murders).

Harry's Law (about a law office -- in the last episode one of their lawyers sued fast food companies, making a heck of an argument to the judge about why the case should proceed during a hearing on a motion to dismiss the case, forcing the company to settle out of court).

Alaska Troopers (or something like that, about the "most rugged cops in the most rugged terrain").

Heck, even new shows about a pawn shop and "repo men" feature crime on a regular basis, as in every episode.

It makes your head spin trying to keep up with it all.

The point is, crime is literally everywhere in entertainment. And every bit of it is unrealistic and a major source of misconceptions about crime and criminal justice practice in the US.