I am sitting here right now looking at Special Victims unit..

Oh I hate that so much! The worst part of watching things like CSI etc.. are when they arrest someone who was involved, and offer them a “deal” to tell them the names of everyone else is involved. Oh what? Because they do the police a favour, and cut down the police hours for doing their own job and finding them themselves, they get a reduced sentence? What if the person they caught thought up the whole thing in the first place?? So annoying. The law isn’t fair. The law and police force are just as corrupt as the criminals they are arresting!

I also like that show as I'm a fan of 'detective' tv shows. But, I couldn't help but shudder at the thought that these things could happen (some of them do happen, and sometimes even worse things happen in real life). It is frustrating when people get away with the things they've done just because some people didn't do their job well. And the one I hate most is when people get away with murder just because of technicalities like their arrest was not proper, or something like that.

I am a fan of the show and understand that the cases aren't real. It even says this at the end of the show, but some sure are a lot like some real cases. The show is sure going to be different with the new casting changes.

I am a huge fan of all the Law & Orders. I agree that our laws are not always sensable or fair. I do believe that there are instances where criminals get away with their crimes because of poor police work. I like to think though, that those mishappenings are rare. I think that for the most part, policeman are just like everyone else. There are days that they do their jobs and do them well. There will be days that they are having an "off" day and not work so hard. You cannot blame the police force for the wrongful convictions of people. Police make arrests based on the evidence they have at the time. They do not conduct the testing of said evidence. It is not their jobs to determine guilt or innocense. Wrongful convictions are the fault of the judicial system. I think that the majority of crimes are solved. Some just take alot more time and effort to solve.

I love Law & Order, and Law & Order SVU, but I don't think you should necessarily believe a TV show is depicting what happens in real life. . .there is often much more information surrounding any criminal case than will ever be released to the public, so you will and I will never really know all of the circumstances. TV shows are written to "get a rise out of" the audience. Clearly tonight's SVU episode was successful in that regard, but it is just a TV show, not real life.

It's really not a good comparison between TV police and real-life police; like you say, time is a factor. On TV, you have to condense crime, investigation, apprehension, and court into one or two hours, and you have a squad of detectived working on 1 case. In reality, it takes much longer to investigate and such, and there is not an entire squad of detectives working one case. Themis tries to balance her scales while blindfolded. And I don't think there is one aspect of the judicial system that should shoulder all the blame. The police can do the most thorough investigation possible, but a good lawyer can sway a jury. But before we blame the lawyer, how permeable was the jury, or even one person on it. No the law as it is applied is not always fair, but we are always reminded that our system (USA) is the best there is.