Movie Theater Addicted to "The First 48"

[Clark]

When I watch this with hunting buddies and with all the advertisement on cable TV, I laugh all the way.

But when I watch it in the middle of the night by myself on my computer with Windows Media center and fast forward through the adds, episode after episode, I get scared.

When I bike every day, I look for bodies.

When I walk on the street in Seattle, I carry two pistols, one in each hand in my jacket pockets. And I look over my shoulder.

My wife doesn't have to bitch at me to lock the front door at night any more.

Here is a video of one episode:
http://www.aetv.com/the_first_48/video/i...tid=16780278001

 

[Krav69]

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Good show and very informative. Most of the images of homicide tend to come from Hollywood, and this show tells it like it really is. Fascinating as hell.

Joe Schilaci (sp?) of the Miami Homicide squad is the coolest, and gawd, I'd hate to ever have him looking for me!!

 

[InTheWeeds]

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Great show. Only thing that pisses me off is the typical cut away to commercial BS before you find out if the perp gave a confession or not.

 

[AtOne]

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It is a great show ! Made even better now that Netflix has quite a few seasons of it without commercials and on demand !

 

[Clark]

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Have you noticed the frequency of the words "cousin" or "crown Victoria" show up in these murders?

 

[slowkota]

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I've loved the show since it premiered!

I'm just amazed at how stupid some suspects can be when they get into the interrogation rooms!!!

I'm not condoning murder or criminal activity or anything... But shiiiiit, lawyer up... and shut up!

 

[Mr Pink]

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im also a big fan of the show. i love the miami crews, they have so much swagger. =)

 

[Clark]

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I come from a family of almost all alcoholics.

I do not drink much, but some in the family are ready to do an intervention on me watching "The First 48".

I lock my doors.
I carry a gun.
I look for bodies as I am biking around.
I keep an eye on young black male strangers like I would keep an eye on a stranger pit bull off the leash.

In Seattle today bike shopping, I had my HAND on the gun in my pocket for 2 hours.

I have gone all obsessed and paranoid.

Still those confessions are just killer.
The detective wants a confession so bad, but can't say, "Look, you talk, and we get you off, you don't talk, and we charge you with murder." But they hint around it.

The guilty as hell seasoned criminals always lawyer up.
The newbies sometimes talk themselves into a life sentence.

The one fake thing was when they got an anonymous phone tip about the location of the victims cell phone after the phone had passed through many hands, when in reality that information no one person could know, and must have come from cell phone triangulation.

 

[500grains]

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I am afraid to watch the show. After spending 4 years living in Philadelphia, I saw more than a lifetime of that behavior first hand and up close. Like the forumite above me, I keep well away from those things which statistically are dangerous to me, such as the typical perp on the First 48 (50% felony conviction rate on that demographic, by the way). I wonder what percentage of pit bulls maul people. 1 percent? Less? If so, shouldn't we be less afraid of pit bulls than that demographic? Just trying to be logical here.

The illegal alien demographic is a notorious perpetrator of violent crime as well.

 

[MattA]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: slowkota</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
I'm just amazed at how stupid some suspects can be when they get into the interrogation rooms!!!

I'm not condoning murder or criminal activity or anything... But shiiiiit, lawyer up... and shut up! </div></div>

No kidding. I knew this pretty much from my line of work. But damn... for a lot of these guys this isn't their first rodeo, so you would think they know to keep their mouths shut.

 

[Clark]

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When I watch fiction, the black male is never the perpetrator.
When the FBI crime statistics were more available on line 2 years ago, I could see that the black male did it half the time.
But the inner city homicide cases filmed in the First 48 make it look more like 90%.

This is like the old mystery novels where it was common, "The butler did it."

 

[500grains]

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A guy from Brasil told me that their negro pro soccer players have to be driven by chauffers because if they drive themselves, they are pulled over all the time on suspicion of auto theft. Keep in mind that statistics do not prove anything about a particular individual, but they do show trends which a person with a well-developed self-preservation instinct will be aware of and modify his behavior as appropriate.