CSI: Miami "Meltdown"

In addition to calling out commercials that coarsen the viewer, I will also rant a bit about mistakes made in TV series that just grate on me.

Of course, criminals must make mistakes, otherwise they cannot be caught...but police officers shouldn't make mistakes.

They do it for drama, of course. Two cops walk up to a man and say, "Hi, we want to talk to you." No drama in that. So, they stop twenty feet away from the guy and shout, "Hey, we want to talk to you." This gives their suspect time to start running, and we get a nice exciting chase.

IT still makes the cops seem stupid.

I am not a particular fan of CSI: Miami, but I was watching it on Monday night.

Delko, who apparently had left the series for a while, returns, undercover, to the lab. Apparently when evidence from the lab has been sent to trial, evidence has been missing or tampered with. So he's volunteered to go to the lab to try to find out who is doing it (and who has stolen a million dollars worth of diamonds out of the evidence room.)

Now, I know that the police in various cities, and their CSI labs, have been revealed to be grossly imcompetent in real life lately, but I cannot believe that this actually flies.

An actual former member of the CSI lab, who could be expected to have friends among everyone there, is sent to the lab to try to find out who is stealing evidence? I do NOT think so.

In addition, had this been happening, after the first or second time, at the most, surely the big guns would have been brought to bear at that time, with everyone investigated immediately. (Or would police unions have prevented such an investigation from happening?)

I know it's all done for dramatic purposes, but it's just a case of the viewer either expected to be too dumb to realize how implausible it is, or the audience too dumb to realize it because of too many viewings of such shows.