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0xdeadbeefbabe · 2014-05-22 16:14:23+00:00

No it's ruled by lawyers making a show of how much they love law and order.

eklavya | karma 1293 | avg karma 1.72 · | 2020-02-17 07:15:30

Do you mean law and order?

cloudcloud3243 | karma -2 | avg karma -0.22 · | 2023-09-09 03:05:05

law and order

ClumsyPilot | karma 18478 | avg karma 2.3 · | 2021-08-22 05:48:24

Do we have law and order?

daenney | karma 5531 | avg karma 5.99 · | 2017-03-07 04:25:31

Did I miss the part in Law & Order where it says this is an accurate representation of US law, the court system etc?

0xfeba | karma 1870 | avg karma 2.45 · | 2017-10-10 13:13:14+00:00

What, like in Law & Order?

sparrish | karma 2271 | avg karma 3.19 · | 2020-07-27 16:58:26+00:00

It's almost like law and order is good for business...

mattl | karma 3245 | avg karma 1.38 · | 2020-03-04 03:42:36

Law and Order in some variety.

ClumsyPilot | karma 18478 | avg karma 2.3 · | 2021-08-23 22:47:52

Glad you aren't

Then wonder what happened to law and order

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michaelbuddy | karma 262 | avg karma 0.34 · | 2016-09-06 01:49:16+00:00

Law and order is not a 'loaded' term. That's just foolishness to think so.

a1o | karma 1177 | avg karma 2.17 · | 2022-07-06 13:41:09

Doesn't Law and Order oftenly introduce the criminal early on? It's not about the investigative part, but being able to go through the full law enforcement process including the judgment part. Law and Order isn't a detective show in my opinion.

shusaku | karma 1497 | avg karma 3.05 · | 2021-07-13 20:29:05

Yeah that just sounds like something you made up. I suppose Perry Mason is a parody of the American legal system too?

Wohlf | karma 1445 | avg karma 3.08 · | 2017-08-08 16:46:25

Law and Order certainly pulls a lot from real cases, but it's not that high of a percentage. I'm sure many are inspired by multiple cases mixed together but most murders are pretty boring by fiction standards.

adrianratnapala | karma 3270 | avg karma 2.22 · | 2018-05-01 04:03:54+00:00

Night Court was a great show.

The TV Tropes (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/NightCourt) page says that "many legal professionals confide that Night Court is far ''more'' realistic than most straight Law Procedurals." I can't vouch for that, but my father is a lawyer, and it was one of his favourite shows too. His other favourite was Rumpole of the Bailey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumpole_of_the_Bailey.

The common thread here that both shows are both (a) funny, and (b) portray defense lawyers as more-or-less good guys. (My father worked for the Attorney General's department).

I can't think of a law procedural from the last two and a half decades that has either of those features. Why is that?

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libraryatnight | karma 3515 | avg karma 3.2 · | 2016-10-01 18:28:17+00:00

"Law and order!"

eli_gottlieb | karma 9637 | avg karma 1.3 · | 2015-05-24 17:25:04+00:00

Law & Order is deliberately sampling from the scummy tails of the person distribution.

ghaff | karma 44589 | avg karma 1.65 · | 2021-07-30 14:42:46

One of the most successful franchises on TV, "Law and Order," at least used to frequently advertise episodes as "ripped from the headlines."

ZeroGravitas | karma 26196 | avg karma 2.14 · | 2022-09-22 15:11:53

"Law and order" is not a reference to having laws and order, it's a reference to this concept:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_order

Hence why the people calling for "law and order" are often calling for and doing illegal things.

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tedhuang | karma -13 | avg karma -1.62 · | 2020-08-10 05:40:21

another man's word: Law & Order

kunle | karma 5497 | avg karma 6.66 · | 2013-05-02 18:06:51+00:00

This law and order episode is being written as we speak.