Episode 355: We’ll Always Have Lennie Briscoe Pt 3 and Finale of Copaganda

March 21, 2022

Show Notes Episode 355: We’ll Always Have Lennie Briscoe

Pt 3 of Copaganda

This week Host Dave Bledsoe demands a detailed forensic analysis of his bartab to prove he actually owes that much money. (The boys at the lab say he owes even more) On the show this week we wrap up our series about the influence of cop shows on the public in the 90’s and 2000’s. (Do we mention how much New York loves Jerry Orbach? You bet we do!)

Along the way we learn that Dave has the worst taste in TV cop role models. (Jimmy McNulty was a drunk fuck up, so I guess maybe he is right after all.) Then we dive right into how the end of the crime wave in the 90’s caused TV to swing back toward the pro-cop narratives it largely left behind the 70’s and 80’s with the biggest cop show of all time, Law and Order. From there we dig into the other big shows of the 90’s before finally arriving at one of the most influential police procedurals of the modern era and how it literally gets EVERYTHING about forensics and crime scene investigation wrong! (Turns out TV lies to you!) Then wrap up with how shows like CSI actually made it harder on cops rather than easier.

Our Sponsor this week is Fast Eddie’s Expert Witnesses, all forensics are bullshit anyway so why pay more? We open the show with magical technology from CSI and close with Russ Simms explaining some strange science.

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Citations Needed:

Law & Order Taught Americans to Root for the Police

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/law-and-order-policing-media

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Wikipedia