
How TV cop shows can help keep you safe
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The story of an 11-year-old girl who said she used something she learned from watching "Law & Order: SVU" to help her fight off and identify an alleged would-be abductor is an example of how TV police dramas are influential in real life.
Not that such shows are often very reflective of real life policing. For example, they hardly ever arrest the wrong person, and DNA evidence is always collected and processed quickly, which is not the case in the real world.More Related News

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