Just How ‘Realistic’ Are Reality Crime Shows Like C.S.I.?!
Question: I know the producers and writers take great care to use the right medical terms and show the proper investigative processes both in the lab and out in the field. And they use medical advisors.
But just how realistic is it all?
I spent enough time around crime labs and at on-site crime scenes to know that something is very wrong with the portrayal of ‘reality’ crime shows. Too many of the crime scene investigators are much too young and much too physically attractive to reflect reality. And the lab technicians are equally too young and too attractive.
Where were all these babes and hunks when I was in that line of work?
What I saw was a lot of balding, middle aged men and frumpy, equally middle aged, women in the labs. As to crime scene investigators these detectives earn that position through rank and seniority and it would be extremely rare to find a younger investigator on a crime scene team in a large city.
Reality or half-reality? What do you think?
Answers: I know the producers and writers take great care to use the right medical terms and show the proper investigative processes both in the lab and out in the field. And they use medical advisors.
But just how realistic is it all?
I spent enough time around crime labs and at on-site crime scenes to know that something is very wrong with the portrayal of ‘reality’ crime shows. Too many of the crime scene investigators are much too young and much too physically attractive to reflect reality. And the lab technicians are equally too young and too attractive.
Where were all these babes and hunks when I was in that line of work?
What I saw was a lot of balding, middle aged men and frumpy, equally middle aged, women in the labs. As to crime scene investigators these detectives earn that position through rank and seniority and it would be extremely rare to find a younger investigator on a crime scene team in a large city.
Reality or half-reality? What do you think?
not very. Lol for one thing all these girls walking around in heels and skirts wouldn't happen. You walk into a crime scene wearing hair nets and booties. Also the investigators dont do all the stuff they do on the show. they just bag and tag then do some lab work. they dont solve the entire crime right up to trial. Also they wouldn't go right in and just start looking around. As soon as you get to the crime scene you have your name and title written down and fill out a ton more paperwork. I think the reason that most people involved in CSI stuff are a little older is that so many of them begin their careers as cops then work up to it.
haha, don't look for realism on tv. No, CSI and L&O and the rest aren't close to reality at all. It takes months to get all those lab tests back and people in the lab rarely if ever go to the scene of a crime, etc. But it wouldn't be good tv if people had to wait 6 months to find out what happened in the first episode's crimes.
CSI is not a reallity crime show. All the equipment & techniques they use are real, But the stories are total fiction. The Spike TV show Murder is a reality crime show. You can see the episodes at http://www.ifilm.com Each episode is based of an actual murder case. The two teams of three have 48 hours to collect & process the evidence, hear the coroner's report & ask questions, view the actual interrogation recordings, develop a theory & evidence to back it up. The host of the show is a real homcide detective. It was on Saturday nights, but not anymore for some reason.