1. Getting away with a crime in a poor neighborhood when drugs are involved is way easier than shows like CSI would have one believe.
2. If one does not get away with a crime under these circumstances, it is often because of sheer stupidity.
3. This idea that anyone can be a target of random murder is also highly exaggerated by tv shows. Not that it's impossible that someone you've never met nor seen could jump out of the bushes and attack you, it's just extremely unlikely.
4. A lot of crimes are solved because of crimestoppers' tips and not detective brilliance. So that means luck.
5. Often I feel that first degree murder is too harsh a sentence, especially for young Black males (since 90 percent of the time they are the demographic charged.) I guess that's why I would make a horrible cop, lawyer, juror, or judge. I am just too willing to believe/have too much empathy for their stories.
6. Whatever happened to the right to an attorney?!!! Hardly anyone invokes this right. I guess that's also why I would be a horrible investigator- the outright lies they tell the suspects to get confessions make me pretty bilious.
Okay, those are my observations... for now.... I still have about 90 episodes on Netflix to go, ha ha.
Soon to come, as soon as I feel like writing it, "To Pre or Not to Pre: What's the Deal With Pre-School?!!!!"
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Ok so I am not familiar with this show, but your observations remind me of thoughts I've had while watching other forensic-type shows. Bones, for example, always has a plethora of decaying bodies to analyze, all found in the greater Washington Metro area. We are talking one a week. If that were really the case in any city, coupled with gang activity, the murder rate would be insane! In reality-land, a person getting shot always makes the news, and it isn't anywhere near those numbers. Similarly, House's constant flow of medical mysteries, all people living close enough to go visit their house in an afternoon, not flying in to see this famous doctor. Really? I'm pretty sure most people in a city who sneeze, just have a cold. At least *try for some realism.
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