TV Tattle refs this article about how there is no CSI effect, that is, no evidence that juries now expect hard irrefutable forensic evidence in murder case.
I'd like to know if there's another CSI effect: people less likely to murder because they have a deepening respect for the cops' ability to nail them. Used to be you could expect to get away with it if no one saw you do it. But if you have to worry about whether you tracked in carpet fibers from your home, or whether your dandruff has left DNA evidence on the corpse, you're less inclined to knock somebody off.
I know I am.
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Or perhaps the opposite, maybe there are more unsolved murders because people copy CSI episodes for the techniques of killing someone, and just fix the mistakes the criminal made so that they won't be caught.
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