In article <sl94j.34682$Gp5.3262@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Victor <NOvbuttaroSPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Richard Evans wrote:
> > Tony Harding <ToHard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > And how would you get access to the subway system
> > computers to ensure you had an accurate test bed?
> Truth be told this argument is pointless as what you
> saw on CSI-NY probably has no connection what-so-ever
> with the real NYC transit system.
Nor with the law. As with the technical aspects of the computer subway
controls, the show also played fast and loose with the law.
They made a big show of the Chicago cop lecturing Taylor about how "this
isn't a joint investigation" and "your badge doesn't work here".
Well, first, that's not her call to make. She's just a detective. Such
things are decided at the deputy chief level or above and in a scenario
like the one on the show, it very much *would* be a joint investigation.
You have a killer who is obviously committing crimes in both
jurisdictions and there would be a whole myriad of issues that would
need to be coordinated in anticipation of catching the guy: chain of
custody issues for evidence, conflict-of-laws issues, etc. Both the NYPD
and the Chicago PD would establish a cooperative investigation from the
get-go. Not fight over turf like that snooty Chicago detective seemed
determined to do.
In reality, the most likely scenario is that the FBI would have taken
over the investigation, especially once traces of anthrax (a known WMD)
were found at one of the crime scenes.
The Chicago cop also told Taylor she'd need to get fingerprints from him
for elimination purposes. Huh? Taylor is a cop. His fingerprints will be
in AFIS just like all other cops. It's one of the requirements for
becoming a law enforcement officer.
Then back in the lab, that cocky lab tech (whose name I can never
remember) tells everyone that the "DNA from the subject's fingerprints
matched". Huh? I've been in law enforcement for many years now and I
never knew you could get DNA from a fingerprint (absent some other
medium like a fingerprint left in blood). Those guys are *good*.
And I always like it how almost every show includes a scene where one of
the lab techs (this time it was Stella) throws up their hands in
frustration and says, "I've been over this a thousand times and we've
got no leads here!" and then someone else says "Well, let's go over it
one more time" and before they can even put both rubber gloves on, the
first tech gets a flash of insight that essentially solves the case.
This time it was Stella with the color of the X's on her puzzle piece.
I also liked how everyone was so paranoid that the perp was going to
boobytrap his place, but then they all go off alone searching from room
to room, so that Taylor can be conveniently coldcocked and abducted
unseen by anyone else. I gotta say, managing to knock a cop out, abduct
him and get away clean *while* he and a SWAT team are raiding the house
is quite a feat.
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