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CSI, because of its popularity and fecundity, is the most dramatic new influence on a justice system that has always been affected by books, movies and TV. "When Perry Mason first aired, lawyers were not allowed to approach witnesses to question them," says Christopher Stone, director of the Vera Institute...
But all those sprays and lasers and high-tech microscopes, it turns out, are expensive. "DNA analysis is used every six seconds on CSI," says Robert J. Castelli, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice who was a police officer for 21 years. "To analyze properly a sample...
Simple, unchallenging procedurals and self-contained dramas were standard fare about 30 years ago--think of Cannon, Columbo and Fantasy Island. That began to change, in part because of prime-time soaps like Dallas but especially because of one show, Steven Bochco's Hill Street Blues, which debuted on NBC...
In contrast, we know the investigators like we know our coworkers, as sets of tidbits and quirks--Horatio Caine (David Caruso) is divorced; Gil Grissom (Petersen) is an atheist--but the job comes first, second and third. L&O's cops are even less well defined, and that has helped...
“Throw what you’ve got!” screamed an overweight man with bloodshot eyes. Glass bottles rained on the heavily-armored cops like giant water droplets.