Things you might learn from watching American TV cop shows

[Stoo82]

No cars are EVER locked. Unless they are being broken into.

 

[Stat Brother]

To broaden it slightly:-
Inviting Jessica Fletcher round for afternoon tea, is very very bad for your health.

 

[albionalbino]

Detectives are only given 24 or 48 hours to solve a case by their superior officer.

 

[The Large One]

City Hall is run by preening fuckwits.

 

[Perry Milkins]

Detectives are only given 24 or 48 hours to solve a case by their superior officer.

Really, really bad guys who run the gang of baddies are always Alan Rickman or Jeremy Irons

 

[El Presidente]

Bad cops ALWAYS get their just desserts in the end, even if it takes SIX series (as in Vic Mackay's case in the fantastic The Shield)

 

[The Large One]

Really, really bad guys who run the gang of baddies are always Alan Rickman or Jeremy Irons

aka 'British'.

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

All American cops look more like



than Richard Gere

 

[Badger]

All forensic computers have a sound attached to every single mouse and keyboard action.

Any roadblock that gets set up will have a gap in the middle for a car to smash its way through.

You are never more than a mile away from an abandoned warehouse.