Comments on: Crime Shows Ignore Real Crime

By: DLOVE

DLOVE — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:46:23 +0000

By the way NCIS did dfeal with the gang and drug issues on 1 of their shows, not for you X but for Mr. Lott

By: astorian

astorian — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:43:38 +0000

Even if TV writers DID understand and accept that gangs are behind a huge percentage of the crime in the U.S., the result would not be an improvement.

What we'd see would be standard TV/movie multi-ethnic (but mostly white) gangs.

Ever see "Death Wish 3"? It expected us to believe that most of the crime in the South Bronx is committed by white motorbikers!

The "gangs" TV would show us wouldn't bear much resemblance to the gangs actually running the drug trade in this country.

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:19:02 +0000

NCIS also tackled a couple of gang-related murders, one of them during the current season.

I think NCIS as a whole is well-written and entertaining, although I do agree that the previous seasons were much better than the current one. My husband who is not into serial TV at all is completely addicted to this show.

By: Voodod

Voodod — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:16:04 +0000

I saw a study years ago (that I wish I could find again) about corporate executives and murder. On television and movies, they committed something like 6000 murders in a particular year. In actuality there was not a single murder linked to a corporate big wig that year.

By: CalVRWC

CalVRWC — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:48:10 +0000

… one who's committed … not comment

By: CalVRWC

CalVRWC — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:46:46 +0000

I watch the CSIs religiously because of the procedural, not the comments about society or the realism. It's like reading Sherlock Holmes stories because of how he figures things out, not because they're "real."

Although, when I do watch them, I wonder why they never seem to mention crimes by illegal immigrants. If crime drama does involve illegals, it's because they looking for information on another "citizen" criminal rather than an illegal immigrant criminal (meaning one who's comment a serious crime, not just an illegal border crossing).

And I can't believe no one's mentioned CSI:Miami's Eva LaRue !! Hotty McHot Hot.

By: oakknoll

oakknoll — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:38:15 +0000

what worries me is, how many folk believe (wife included) the CSI shows are hows crimes should be solved.
Neal Smith points out two things re: criminals and crimes. 1) restitution is more painful to the criminal than retribution 2) the only time for retributional punisment is during the criminal act.

By: Oscarfoxtango

Oscarfoxtango — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:28:15 +0000

When I think of all the liberals who told me that they don't watch "Cops" because it wasn't "REAL".

You Gotta Laugh!

By: LawhawkSF

LawhawkSF — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:25:15 +0000

I spent a major portion of my life as a defense attorney in the criminal "justice" system. And trust me, TV law is about as real as the tooth fairy. When there is little reality in the portrayal of the actual workings of the legal system, then giving it a lefty political twist is not a problem. In twenty years of practice, I think I had approximately two sympathetic clients, and technically they were indeed guilty of the crimes charged. On TV, many criminal defense attorneys represent noble, or noble but misguided clients. If the heroes are prosecutors, they do their jobs reluctantly, always able to see the misplaced rightness of the defendant they are prosecuting. Baloney.

That said, I gave up on "Law and Order" years ago for its lefty maunderings and anti-law enforcement agenda. But last night a Fred Thompson L&O re-run came on, so I left the show on. Damn! It wasn't a lefty screed. Guilty, unsympathetic blood-feud Muslim defendant. Sam Waterston sputtering his usual self-righteous twaddle, but still determined to win the case. Local jurisdiction refusing to give up a solid murder prosecution to the feds for a "terrorist detention." And best of all, the great Ron Silver brilliantly playing a headline-grabbing anti-Iraq War defense attorney who tried to make the defendant look sympathetic. His ploy was that she justifiably murdered an Abu Ghraib female soldier who may or may not have tortured the defendant's brother in Iraq. I'll bet Ron gave the producers the whim-whams because he played a liberal lawyer who was drooling at the chance to "put the war on trial." But Ron insisted that while playing the part, he would wear his American flag lapel-pin.

By: Holly

Holly — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:22:58 +0000

Exactly, Furious! If crime statistics mirrored crime shows, then Cabot's Cove, Maine would have to be the murder capitol of the Northeast. It's all entertainment and vicarious living.