The last few times I have caught NCIS, I see Tony and Magee putting their pistols in a drawer in their desks and not locking them. What is the deal here. When I was a cops’ reporter, pretty much everybody wore their pistols around the office. When I go by the station these days, they still do. When I go by the jail. The guns are checked and locked up in a drawer. But nowhere do officers just toss them in an unlocked drawer.
Do Feds do something different?
No.
For lack of a better way of putting it, everything on television is wrong. Everything. Reality is sacrificed on the altar of entertainment.
Now, are there people who do what you saw? Surely there are. Is it so common as to be a generalization? No. It’s a TV thing.
The TV show wants to emphasize that these people have guns, because it makes the show more dramatic. So you need to show them doing things with the guns. Locking the drawer afterwards, though, would be more boring than dramatic, so they never bother to show that.
What they need to do is liven up the keys and locks somehow. It wouldn’t be boring if, for instance, every time someone locked up the drawer, it showed a close up shot of a different kind of keychain. Like, one of the keychains could be a figurine of a man and woman fucking. My grandpa has a keychain like that. Or one time it could be a little metal skull with red jewels for eyes, or a miniature Pez dispenser, or a pot leaf, or a little flag of Rhodesia, or a little mounted cuirassier from the Thirty Years War era, or a tiny figurine of a naval criminal investigator locking a drawer with a key on a keychain of a tiny figurine of a naval criminal investigator locking a drawer with a key on a keychain of a tiny figuring of a naval criminal investigator locking a drawer with a key on a keychain of a
Oh, great. He’s looping again.
Somebody give AG a reboot!
I always assumed it was because they worked in a secure facility. Basically, the entire building is a locked drawer. Of course, I know nothing about real NCIS facilities, so this is just an assumption.
Because keeping your weapon on your person in a rig designed to maintain enhanced retention is boring.
“Homicide: Life on the Street” had a huge plot point based on this stupid meme. A prisoner (Junior Bunk IIRC) handcuffed to a bench noticed one of the detectives put his handgun in an unlocked desk drawer right next to him. He managed to get hold of it, and shot several cops.
Yeah, that’s what I came here to say.
Something tells me that nothing in the real NCIS is anything like the TV show NCIS, which is, really, a pretty silly show. (I like it anyway.)
You take that back. Are you seriously saying that you don’t think an investigative law-enforcement agency of the Navy has any rocked-out, tattooed goth grrls running its DNA matches?
I just don’t know if I want to live in your world.
Odly enough, she actually has a forensics degree in real life.
I have actually had to work with an NCIS agent on occasion, and they seem to roll their eyes when the show’s name is mentioned. Probably because whenever they announce their name and title in meetings, someone usually says “Oh, Mark Harmon couldn’t make it?”
But I have actually heard some high ranking people in the Navy say that if the real NCIS was as good (and as well funded) as on the show, there would be no crime in the Navy or USMC.
There is now a reality show about NCIS, creatively named “The Real NCIS”. http://investigation.discovery.com/tv/the-real-ncis/about.html
So far, no Mark Harmon or sexy Israeli agents.
Oversexed pretty-boys and computer geeks by the boatload, though, I’m willing to bet.
I still want a hat like Ducky’s.
Wow! NCIS is one of favorite shows and I never noticed that.
Of course, if I mentioned it to the spousal-unit, she would just say something like, “Oh so YOU know more about guns than the NCIS people do, do you?” And she would raise an eyebrow and I would feel pretty damned stupid saying anything in the first place.
But good point.
They mentioned in the show that they were required to carry thier guns from “portal to portal” ** (basically place to place) - but had no requirement for staying armed while in the facility.
They are loose with the locking of the drawers, because, well, its TV.
** this was a plot point in season 2 when Pachi gets killed - its mentioned that he didnt have his weapon on him when he was out in the field, which was against regs.