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Department of Education. And it's easy to see why — f rom renegade cops who single-handedly take down suspects to crime labs filled with futuristic tech, some of these shows make the business of being a police officer and working on criminal court cases look dramatic and thrilling.
But some parts of these TV shows aren't always accurate. INSIDER consulted with experts to figure out what cop shows and crime dramas always get wrong about working in law enforcement fields.
Criminal profiling is a forensic technique whereby a specialist tries to predict or understand the characteristics and future behavior of an offender based on their past behavior or elements of the crime. Profilers are regular characters in many crime shows and they're often portrayed as having a key part in solving murder investigations.
But criminal profiling plays a very different role in actual criminal cases. Turner further explained that profiling is unlikely to be used in a typical murder case. He also said it's actually more common for forensic psychologists to be used after an arrest so they can evaluate the suspect for things like their competency to stand trial or their likelihood to re-offend. The insanity plea or insanity defense is a common plot device used in crime shows, but it's actually a defense you'll rarely see pled in courtrooms.
This plea defense only works in an extremely small number of cases," explained Turner. According to Cornell Law School, in this defense, "the defendant admits the action, but asserts a lack of culpability based on a mental illness.
Furthermore, Turner told INSIDER that criminal defendants who may be struggling with mental health issues often undergo an extensive evaluation by a court-appointed forensic psychologist to determine their competency to stand trial well before a plea is ever entered into court.
The subject matter may get out there, but the internal drama resonates. NYPD Blue may seem tame by today's standards, but it helped bring realistic crime cases to television and show that police series could be a genuine hit for the medium. Now they're just seen as the norm. Broadchurch is a gutting look into a missing child case that doesn't shy away from the inherent darkness of such territory.
Broadchurch examines the immense pain and frustration over when justice can't be served and victims are still in need of justice. The scariest thing about Broadchurch is that all of this could really happen. Much like with The Wire , The Shield was from an earlier era of prestige cable dramas and for a while The Shield as gritty as it got. Vic Mackey's dangerous and increasingly corrupt journey through the police force is gutting. The show gets big sometimes, but Mackey's pain comes from a very realistic place.
For the longest time The Wire was applauded over how much effort it took to realistically depict the war against drugs in Baltimore. In truth, had Jerry had things his way, he wouldn't even have worked a finale episode. Share Share Tweet Email. Sure, the dysfunction at the heart of the tale was bleak. This alternately glitzy and horrifying tale works instead as a study of cause and effect.
At the heart of the story is an extraordinary performance by Darren Criss as the terrifying yet initially oddly sympathetic Cunanan. Netflix This was where the modern episodic true-crime craze began.
Back in , Jean-Xavier de Lestrade did a remarkable job of bringing the bewildering story of Michael Peterson to light. But what began to unfold feels like an uncanny precursor to the later likes of Making a Murderer, a confirmation that the truth really can be stranger than fiction. Had something like this happened to Peterson before?
Could the prosecutors be trusted? Having been incarcerated for drug theft, the former nurse anaesthetist targeted California businesswoman Debra Newell, posing as a doctor and slowly inveigling himself into her life and affairs to dangerous ends.
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