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CSI Effect: How Forensic Science on TV Impacts Our Real Justice System
- thewileyone 17y agoMy brother-in-law is a homicide detective and is constantly asked by victims' families why is it taking so long to solve cases when it's over in CSI by the end of the hour.
- btilly 17y agoThanks to CSI and relatives, here is what the public thinks image manipulation can do: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk The ridiculousness may be lost on you if you need an explanation why a digital image of a crappy security camera can't be used to zoom in on a reflection of an eyeball. Or of why a 2-dimensional image can't be used to construct a 3-dimensional image of the scene, that you can rotate to see objects out of the line of view of the camera.
- rtp 17y agoThis might be of interest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSI_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSI_effect
- gte910h 17y agoAtlanta's crime lab is so backed up most items aren't even submitted unless they are key pieces of evidence; they just won't be ready in time otherwise. Of course my wife doesn't find this out until after the jury renderered a verdict (with her as a juror). Other than the medical examinier's testimony, there was almost no physical evidence.