Even the tamer police procedurals are pure propaganda for the simple reason that they show the police actually solving crimes. FBI data from 2017 shows that law enforcement only cleared 45.6% of violent crimes and 17.6% of property crimes. Even murder and manslaughter cases only have a 61.6% clear rate.
Dexter somehow managed to be the most "realistic" "cop" show in existence by virtue of opening the first episode by pointing out just how dogshit the cops are at their job, and then INSTANTLY lost all semblance of realism when it started to claim there's enough of a serial killer element in Miami alone to allow Dexter's many murders to happen.
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u/UncleCeiling 17h ago
Even the tamer police procedurals are pure propaganda for the simple reason that they show the police actually solving crimes. FBI data from 2017 shows that law enforcement only cleared 45.6% of violent crimes and 17.6% of property crimes. Even murder and manslaughter cases only have a 61.6% clear rate.