I really get a kick out of a user named Abby Carmichael posting in an L&O thread!
I really like the show, but do find their tactics heavy handed. Especially when they’re out on the streets and blackmail potential witnesses into cooperating. Also, they occassionally go overboard on the “Guilty until proven innocent” line of investigation.
As for prosecutors, I mus go with Diane Neal in her redhead days. Especially when she’s prosecuting in a skirt and knee high boots.
Cite?
I love the show, expecially Mariska Hargitay. She makes my heart twitterpate.
As far as the strong-arming of suspects to get them to talk. Well…there is a line that shouldn’t be crossed but a little stong arming is needed sometimes. The way I see it, sex offenders are the the biggest heaps of steaming shit in the criminal world, especially when their victims are children.
http://www.johnhoward.ab.ca/docs/sxoffend/page1.htm
The statistics are Canadian, but I presume the U.S. statistics are similiar. Googling seems to indicate that this is a heavily-researched topic.
Thanks Rysler I do wonder though if we have more sexually based crimes here in the US than there are in Canada.
I still think 62% recidivism for sexual offenders is still a scary percentage. I am not comforted at all by theses statistics. But I have to admit, it is lower than I had believed it to be.
Bah, I want him to show up as J.J. Jamison! 
Yeah, but the problem is that they acting that way on someone who may not be a pedophile. In fact almost everybody they suspect before the halfway point in the show is innocent. But they still treat them like crap. I have friends who are prison guards and they tell me that when force is needed, it’s used. Hard. But up until that point, the guards are very careful to follow protocol. That’s moot though since my friends deal with guys who are already convicted. I imagine that as long as a suspect is not physically disruptive he’ll not get any rough treatment. Besides, some of the best interrogation techniques are not physical at all. Things like playing two suspects against each other, quietly describing prison life, playing on a suspects personality, etc…
But they do allow her to be weak, emotionally hurt by cases that make Stabler get violently angry.
And Jill Hennessy was 24 or 25 when she started on L&O. She seemed older too all those years ago so it’s a surprise she’s still smokin’ hot on “Crossing Jordan”.
Perhaps I’m the only one with this pet peeve, but my problem with SVU (aside from the weak, sensationalistic, contrived writing) is Ice T.
Many years ago, when rap was still a relatively new musical form (sheez I’m old!), I saw an MTV interview with Ice T. He talked about his criminal past, prefacing it by saying (paraphasing) “this happened long enough ago that the statute of limitation is over, so I can talk about it, but…” and then went on to describe how he & his “homeboys” would simply walk into high-priced jewelry stores, brandish some weapons and simply take hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of goods, empty out the cash registers, etc. He spoke of it in a nonchalant, unapolegetic manner that suggested no remorse whatsoever. I can’t stop thinking about that interview every time I see him brandishing a badge, arresting a perp, or laying down a moralizing speech about law & order.
I don’t have a problem with the way that they portray her emotional state; it bothers me that whenever there is a disagreement in the squad room over which suspect is guilty or which is lying or whatever there is no actual suspense since longtime viewers of the show will know that Olivia has used her Spider-Criminal-Sense to root out the correct response.
I can accept that from Goren of Criminal Intent since that show is so ridiculously over the top that it wouldn’t be out of the question for Goren to be dueling a clone of Hitler on his super airship murderfortress.
And don’t get me started on CI and SVUs latest “Choose-Your-Own-Adventure” episodes. Blech.
Shouldn’t that be in a spoiler box?
Not yet. It’s speculation. Try back in two weeks.
I agree. While it’s not as bad as CSI, and nothing’s as bad as JAG, the writing on this is plain embarrassing.
I don’t watch much TV (haven’t turned it on in about a month, currently), but for awhile I was watching cop shows. I quickly learned to be appalled at how much they relied on dirty pool to get a reaction.
Don’t have a story? Get some woman raped and murdered–THAT’ll brng in the viewers!
Ew.
Daniel
Meh. The show’s taken its cue from CSI in that it dicks around with the audience for the first 45 minutes playing “suspect, suspect, who’s got the suspect.” I caught an episode yesterday (no idea if it’s new or not) in which a teenage girl is found tied up at a construction site, intially claims she was raped by several unidentifiable men, then gradually fingered a few ROTC-ish cadets, then recanted, then the cops suspected her stepfather (they found his palmprint on a piece of gyprock in the room where she was found), then she fingers his boss, who apparantly is the real rapist, but since the girl has changed her story so many times, he’s acquitted, but then some woman comes out of nowhere in the last ten seconds to claim she was raped by the same man… sigh. Why was the stepfather’s palmprint at the scene? Who knows? It’s just another meaningless, pointless, time-wasting coincidence.
The only high point, for me, was the stepfather becoming sufficiently incensed to deck Stabler. Frankly, I’d like to see the detectives take a few bruises when they go too far in interrogations.
I agree! I opened this thread for the sole purpose of posting my opinion that Detective Munch is H-O-T-T hot!