I’ve said it before , but people are very easy to influence, particularly with the stories we tell ourselves, via Hollywood. These stories include crime dramas, police procedurals, detective stories, and courtroom dramas.
Solving the crime typically drives the plot, and the bad guys perish, or are appropriately punished roughly 90% of the time. Is there any murder plot so complex Perry Mason can’t solve it? I don’t think so!
In real life, the police and courts solve far fewer crimes—13 percent in California in 2022 (says the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice here ).
Meanwhile, Hollywood’s stories have […]
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