Professionals Share Unrealistic Things in Crime Shows That Would Not Happen in Real Life

Suffice to say; we’ve all been there. We’re enjoying our favorite crime series/ movie when they show something so absurd that you cannot keep your doubts suppressed anymore. Reality TV is exaggerated. Everyone knows that. However, on certain occasions, creators get too “creative” and stray too far from reality, damaging a core ingredient of the show.
It’s easy to pick up on the unnatural instances from a distance, but the scenario is different for professionals who live that life every day. And these professionals are teaching us to differentiate between legit and fake.
Unfortunately, for those whose lives were shaped by crime shows, this will be a disappointing read as we are going to pop some delusion bubbles.

No One Likes Paperwork

We can’t get enough paperwork any day! That’s right, paperwork is the one thing that keeps cops and law enforcement officers going. Wrong! No one wants more work than they have to handle (unless they are a workaholic like Amy Santiago). That’s enough reason not to be fighting over cases.

Despite what our favorite crime shows taught us, cops and detectives are not trying to swipe cases from each other or other agencies. They don’t want their brain to be working on five different things simultaneously, and that’s completely normal. In real life, professionals try to keep work pressure at a minimum.

Tougher Than It Seems

Our culprit conveniently parked the crime vehicle right in front of a camera in the middle of the street. That’s great! Except it’s not because that’s usually never the case. The car will generally be at least 300 meters away on a day when the sky has been pouring snow. So even if the camera was powerful enough to capture half an inch of the culprit’s activity, there would be at least some dots of melted snow on the screen blocking the view.

The generic “zoom and enhance” they show on crime shows couldn’t be farther from the truth. Recovering a plate from any CCTV footage is rather hard work.

Not So Secure

With the way these shows display CCTV footage, you would think that everything would be crystal clear on the videos. Real-life professionals ardently wish they could get help like that during one of the more complicated cases. But the truth is painful, and it’s that those cameras will not tell you what tattoo the suspect had up their right arm.

Professionals would consider themselves lucky if they could even find out whether the suspect was wearing shoes or not. Life would be infinitely easier if high-resolution cameras were cheap enough to be installed at every corner of every street.

Endless Time

Every TV show based on a crime in a small town shows both the prosecution and the cops dedicating all their time to one case. Except when something like this happens in a big town, like New York, it leaves us wondering how considerate the crooks were! They left a schedule clean enough for the professionals to work on just one case.

Seriously, real-life professionals would consider working on less than three cases simultaneously a vacation. One thing’s for sure: law enforcement professionals want to teleport to this land where an officer can get away with a minimal workload.