Cops in designer clothes; ADA's with fake boobs; immaculate crime scenes and everything wrapped up in a neat tightly bow in 42 minutes. Come on? How can real police work live up to that?
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Not that you don't look good in your Hugo Boss sweater, Danny.
Sad to say, those boys were MUCH closer to what the job really is than the girls were. Not to argue your underlying point, at all, though. TV raps it all up at the end of the hour, maybe two, and the bad guys are all taken care of. When we can't do it as neatly then why should anyone believe in us?
OOC: I'm gonna sit here and laugh at the irony and the meta of the Sam Waterston referece, thanks. ::giggle::
Jill and the girls were PI's...like Magnum. But how many real life PI's do you know of that do anything other than following cheating spouses and moonlight as bounty hunters.
Today's society think it takes a single stray hair to convict. Even a bad lawyer can get that dismissed. It takes a lot...and that takes time...and cooperation.
OOC: When I read the Springboard all I could think of was the "CSI Effect". Answering it as the muse was just surreal...lol
But they started as cops. Magnum was closer to real, which is a sorry statement. (But who cared. Selleck has great legs. Still.)
When I tell people it can take months and that most convictions are circumstantial, they stare at me. "But what about DNA?" My husband's case shows how far we've come and how far we have to go.
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Not that you don't look good in your Hugo Boss sweater, Danny.
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Charlie's Angels.
Sad to say, those boys were MUCH closer to what the job really is than the girls were. Not to argue your underlying point, at all, though. TV raps it all up at the end of the hour, maybe two, and the bad guys are all taken care of. When we can't do it as neatly then why should anyone believe in us?
OOC: I'm gonna sit here and laugh at the irony and the meta of the Sam Waterston referece, thanks. ::giggle::
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Today's society think it takes a single stray hair to convict. Even a bad lawyer can get that dismissed. It takes a lot...and that takes time...and cooperation.
OOC: When I read the Springboard all I could think of was the "CSI Effect". Answering it as the muse was just surreal...lol
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When I tell people it can take months and that most convictions are circumstantial, they stare at me. "But what about DNA?" My husband's case shows how far we've come and how far we have to go.
OOC: I'll bet.
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