Posted on 01/29/2006 8:07:57 AM PST by Flavius
Ooopps... oh well what are you going to do.
Now lets run a few more stories on the holes in homeland security, and how to sneak in to nuke plants.
Some of this column is totally bogus. Killers have known about fibers, dna, and other "trace" evidence for years--not because of crime shows, but because like anyone else, they follow the trials.
It probably doesn't have this effect. Unless people want secret trials instead of public trials, criminals will watch what happens--and no doubt take notes.
Yes, and how long ago did that rape happen? I'm betting quite awhile ago--most of those FF cases are a decade or so old. (Sometimes older.) It isn't the teevee that's educating them, it's just paying attention to the trials, where all the evidence (and how it's gathered) comes out.
Mrs. Flyer was watching one of those shows last night. They decided to glorify the "media" and "whistleblowers" when the female lead started leaking information about an anthrax investigation to the "media." They portrayed her as a "hero" for defying the Feds and leaking the information to the press. The old "the public has a right to know" syndrome don't ya know. Hollyweirdoes gives me the creeps.
I watched the original few episoded of CSI, but it didn't take long for me to see that it was definitely not "Law and Order."
There are a couple of shows that are particularly bad at advertising better methods for criminals. One was/is "Masterminds" on Court tv describing many criminal acts and techniques used to facilitate those acts.
It ought to be against public policy to re-enact criminal acts that might be emulated by others without sufficiently obscuring useful details for criminals. Another example is a show where two teams compete to steal something or other by defeating th security systems. DUmb beyond belief, and stupid to glorify idiotic behavior.
Utter nonsense. Please note that virtually every one of the "Masterminds" on that show were caught, some of them more than once.
Well, we don't know about the REAL smart ones - do we!?
Becase they got away with it!
Then you have criminals like OJ Simpson.
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