This is hidden brain.
I'm Shankar Vedanta.
One of the first television crime dramas in the United States debuted in 1958.
The same guys wearing rubber Halloween masks, one of them with a sawed off shotgun.
They've knocked off 16 pawn shops, liquor stores, naked city told stories of detectives in New York's 65th precinct.
Each episode was a new case.
I'm not saying the money he drifted off with is yours, but it's somebody, and it's good hard cash.
The premise of the show there are good guys and there are bad guys.
Let me tell you something, mister, we've got you nailed pretty good.
At the end of every episode, the narrator declared, there are 8 million stories in the naked city.
This has been one of them.
60 years later, crime dramas havent changed much.
There are still good guys and bad guys, but the bad guys are now savage, remorseless, beyond redemption.
He slits their throat so they cant scream.
What the hell is wrong with this guy?
Thinks hes Jack the Ripper.
The way we think about crime dramas is very similar to the way we think about crime.
Homicide, robberies and other kinds of violent crime have been spiking in many big cities in the United States in recent years, coming after a long period of declining crime rates.
This has caused people in many areas to demand solutions, to demand that the good guys catch the bad guys.
But it turns out there are some profound mistakes we are making in thinking about crime, both in police traumas and in actual policing.