That one line from a Netflix show about cops that totally missed the point

I was watching some detective drama last week and one character said 'gut feelings are what solve cases, not data.' My dad was a cop for 25 years in Detroit and he would've laughed at that. He always said the real work was in the boring stuff like witness statements and phone records. Gut feelings are just your brain noticing patterns you haven't named yet. That show made it sound like magic and I think that's why people get wrong ideas about how investigations actually work. Has anyone else ever watched a show and just known the writers never talked to a real person in that job?

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the_emma12d ago

Your dad's point about pattern recognition is spot on. Gut feelings aren't random magic, they come from years of experience noticing small details without consciously thinking about it. Writers just skip the boring part because showing someone reading phone records for three hours doesn't make good TV.

rowanbennett12d ago

Yeah but three hours of phone records sounds way better than my actual job so I'm still jealous.