What Amuses You About Cop Shows?

[ToraToraTora]

Just watching FBI but they are by no means the only offenders. When they are trying to catch a suspect they are often waiting for them in a public place. Instead of getting close enough so the guy can't run they always shout at him from 50 yards away warning the guy there are there and initiating a chase and finally catching him after a bit of a run about! Yes I know it's TV and they'd never do that in real life!

[Dagman]

In some shows, they show a mini computer generated 3d crime scene reconstruction floating over a table and the actors walk around it pondering, there's no such thing, why do they show it?

[barry1010]

Or they put on the blues and twos for no good reason, causing the ne'erdowells to do a runner of flush the evidence down the loo

[Gromit]

[dave50]

Yes I've noticed that! Say police stop from about 100 yards away.

[Canary42]

That people watch them.

[rockyracoon]

That is my biggest bug bear when watching these types of shows. They always do it. Never let you down.

[tomus42]

I've never noticed that before but it's already annoying me.

[choux]

The only time I have ever seen Vera lock her beloved Land Rover was when she arrived for work one morning at the police station.

[dave50]

What about when someone heard a noise outside and goes out to investigate, walks down the path but leaves the door wide open behind them?

[1ozzy]

Nothing amuses me about cop shows.
Guess that's the reason I don't waste time watching them.

[hellywelly4]

So true. I’ve often thought that. I still watch them though. I love Criminal Minds.

[Buenchico]

I hardly ever watch TV but, on the rare occasions that I've done so, I'm often amused/amazed by the way that TV cops completely ignore the provisions of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act!

For example, I happened to be in a friend's flat when Corrie was on the box and watched a custody sergeant charge a suspect with an offence before he was then interviewed. That's the wrong way round. A suspect can only be interviewed before he's charged.

Similarly, cops such as DI Frost regularly interviewed people in their homes, without cautioning them first and without any way of recording the interviews. That just doesn't happen in real life!

Some years ago, I was travelling on Eurostar between Paris and London and found myself sitting next to a guy who was reading through a script of some sort of a police drama. I couldn't resist reading it from the corner of my eye and I found myself having to hold back my laughter at the multiple procedural errors that could be identified within just the first few pages of it. I assumed that he was a college lecturer, reading through a script written by one of his weaker students. However, when he closed the script I could see that the name of the show's director on the front cover matched the name on my neighbour's ticket. Above it was the name of the programme: "The Bill".

[retrocop]

Nothing at all. Did it for real for thirty years. Still have bad dreams.