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Because the Crime Prevention Analysis Heart has identified many, many occasions, tv crime exhibits appear to suppose criminals are always utilizing machine weapons to commit crime. In actual life, criminals typically use machine weapons so hardly ever that a 2016 survey of jail inmates solely broke down the numbers for makes use of in crime of handguns (11.2%), rifles (0.8%), and shotguns (1.1%). There are few rifles, and the survey didn’t even point out totally computerized weapons. The same discovering is out there from the FBI UCR report the place 2.6% of all murders contain rifles of any sort and 0.3% of all murders contain unspecified “different weapons.” There’s a motive for that. Since 1934, there was only one possible known use ever of a civilian using a machine gun in a murder. And even earlier than 1934, they have been very uncommon.
Listed here are a pair extra examples from NBC’s new “The Endgame” (February 21, 2022).
Extra examples of any such bias are available here.
Here’s a video on Hollywood’s bias towards weapons.
Reveals from the present season.
NBC’s Chicago PD (Season 9): E3, October 6, 2021
NBC’s The Blacklist (Season 9): Episode 10, January 10, 2022
NBC’s Endgame (Season 1): Episode 1, February 21, 2022.
CBS’ The Equalizer (Season 2): E1, Oct 10, 2021
CBS’s “FBI: Most Needed” (Season 3) E1 September 28th, 2021 & E2 September 28th, 2021, Episode 12, February 1, 2022
CBS’s S.W.A.T. (Season 5) E1 October 1, 2021, E2, Oct 08, 2021, E7, December 3, 2021, E10, January 10, 2022.
CBS’s “FBI: Worldwide” (Season 1) E2, September 28th, 2021. In one other “FBI: Worldwide” (S1 E1) criminals have been proven carrying machine weapons however not utilizing them. E5, November 2, 2021.
From previous seasons, listed below are a number of the exhibits with criminals utilizing machine weapons (this isn’t meant to be a whole listing):
ABC’s The Rookie (Season 3): Episode 11 April 18, 2021; Episode 12 April 25, 2021; Episode 14 May 9, 2021; Episode 3, January 17, 2021
NBC’s Legislation & Order: Organized Crime (Season 1): Episodes 1 & 2, April 1 and 8, 2021
CBS’s Bull (Season 5): E6, January 18 2021
CBS’s FBI Most Needed (Season 2): E4 January 19, 2021, E5 January 26, 2021.
CBS’ Coyote (Season 1): E2 January 7, 2021 and E5 January 7, 2021
CBS’ SWAT (Season 4): E7 Jan 13, 2021, E8 January 27, 2021, E9 Feb 17 2021
CBS’s Blue Bloods (Season 11): Episode 16, Might 14, 2021
CBS’ Magnum PI (Season 3): E3 Dec 11 2020; Episode 7, February 5, 2021
CBS’ The FBI (Season 3): E1 Nov 17 2020, E4 Jan 24, 2021
CBS’s NCIS LA (Season 12): Episode 8, January 10, 2021
NBC’s Legislation & Order: Organized Crime (Season 1): Episodes 1 & 2, April 1 and 8, 2021
NBC’s The Blacklist (Season 8): Episode 1, November 13, 2020
NBC’s Chicago PD (Season 8): Episode 7, February 17, 2021
In final years’ season (2019-2020), we haven’t been retaining shut monitor, however different current examples include:
CBS’ SWAT (Season 3): E11 January 15, 2020; E21 Might 20, 2020
In final years’ season (2019-2020), we haven’t been retaining shut monitor, however different current examples embrace:
CBS’ SWAT (Season 3): E11 January 15, 2020; E21 Might 20, 2020
CBS’ FBI (Season 2): E12 January 14, 2020; Episode 18, March 24, 2020
Fox’s Deputy (Season 1): E1 January 2, 2020
FBI: Most Needed (Season 1): Episode 4, January 28, 2020; Episode 6, February 18, 2020, Episode 9, March 24, 2020
Chicago PD (Season 7): Episode 10 January 8, 2020; Episode 16, March 4, 2020; Season 7, Episode 17, March 18, 2020; Episode 20, April 15 2020
Hawaii 5-O, Season 10, Episode 18, February 28, 2020; Episode 20, March 13, 2020; Episode 21, March 27, 2020
Magnum PI, Season 2, Episode 18, Might 1, 2020
Blue Bloods, Season 10, Episode 19, Might 1, 2020
The Blacklist, Season 7, Episode 18, Might 8, 2020
Here’s a listing of exhibits from the 2018-19 tv season that confirmed criminals utilizing machine weapons.
The Rookie (Season1): E2, E4, E9, E17, E20
Magnum PI (Season 1): E1, E15
Chicago P.D. (Season 6): E14
Different examples of tv media bias on this explicit level will be found here.
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