On the lookout for a suspect, spotted, with cops yell out the suspects name, then the police department they are with, stop, put your hands behind your head, etc.
All this from 30/40/50 meters away. Giving the suspect ample time to make a dash for freedom.
Why do they not nonchalantly walk along, showing no interest in the suspect, then nab the person?
Yeah, yeah, chases are suppose to make it more exciting, yada yada yada.
Many times the suspect gets away.
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And people ducking bullets!
AI says: Rifle bullets can achieve speeds exceeding 900 meters per second (about 3 times the speed of sound).
OK pistol bullets are not quite that fast, but still fast enough to hit before youâve heard it.
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I reality there are many glaring errors in cop shows. All in the name of raising the excitement levels.
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Any movie trailer showing people ducking bullets does nothing for my excitement levels.
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57 shot revolvers.
97 bullets fired by the bad guys with rifles, either missing completely or only lightly nicking the god guys.
Good guys hitting bad guys with pistols at long range after the bad guys have missed with rifles
UK judges using gavels in court
Fitting silencers to revolvers
Car chases where vehicles hit piles of cardboard boxes or barrels of water
Body falling or thrown from a tall buildings always lands on a car and sets off the alarm
The first arrest is always the wrong guy/gal
The lead cop is always flawed such as being an alcoholic, or divorced, or having marital problems, or all of the above
After a long shootout, the cops always only have three bullets left between them
Nobody ever goes for a pee no matter how much coffee is drink nor how long a stakeout lasts
Crimes can be solved in 24 hours
Etcetera
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There are too many to name:
âPut your hands out of the windowâ but âswitch the car offâ but âopen the doorâ but*âshow me your paperworkâ but âstep out of the carâ but âdonât moveâ. How the bloody hell are you suppose to accomplish all of that with your hands out of the window and âkeep your hands where I can see themâ? 
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And then there is âimmediatelyâ. She immediately dialled the cops. The dispatcher immediately sent a car. The police arrived immediately. The cops noticed the victims head was severed and immediately determined he was dead. I mean, cripes! Isnât it common practice to finish your lunch before going out on a âshots firedâ homicide case or a âbuggery in progressâ assignment? 
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HAHA. When I started to handload my own ammo, competitive shooting, etc. I watched TV shows & even the news & got lotsa great laughs.
After a school shooting there were debates about arming teachers. One school principal suggested keeping a bucket of rocks by the teacherâs desk to throw at the shooter. (No, Iâm not making this up)
After I was through laughing, I posted some info:
Even a professional baseball pitcherâs fastball is around 95 mph. A .223 bullet from an AR15 leaves the barrel at 2,250 mph. Which will get there faster?
Even a relatively slow 9mm bullet leaves the barrel at 820 mph.
Simple formula: Multiply fps x 0.6818 to get mph.
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Yeah! And how come TV cops never eat doughnuts?
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I just remembered a couple of bloopers from âDirty Harry.â Remember when Clint wounds a bank robber & says his famous line - âI know what youâre thinking, did he fire six shots or only five. Do ya feel lucky?â
When you watch the clip below, after the robber says âI got to knowâ & Clint cocks the revolver & pulls the trigger, the cylinder of the revolver turns. Us gun people know that when the hammer on a revolver is cocked & the trigger is pulled, the cylinder doesnât turn. That particular gun was scarce at the time, so it was assembled from spare parts & it malfunctioned.
Also, in the same clip, when the robberâs car flips over, you can clearly see the cable on the back of the car that makes it flip. (Scenes like this are expensive to create, so they didnât want to redo it)
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Whenever George Dixon reported that there was some interesting excitement down the Green last week.
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I may appear that like Britian, Cameras are everywhere and the best
Legal evidence and spotter of bad people. Most all homes have door
cameras and indoor cameras to spot stuff.
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Hi
I can only comment on British Police Shows.
Worked with them for years, on TV they outrun the criminals.
Nope, the Criminals are younger, fitter and faster.
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And criminals do not have stab vests, radios, batons etc etc etc to carry so regardless of body size, are many Kiloâs lighter.
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How many criminals are later nabbed at the crime scene after a return, or nearby, pointed out by witnesses. But still more because of videos of them doing the deed or before & after, near it.
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I just remembered a good one from a great movie: âNo Country For Old Men.â
The hit man - Anton Chigur - used a silenced Remington Auto Shotgun, which ejects each empty shell as itâs fired (like in the video below). But when the same shotgun is fired in the movie, no shells come out.
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Why should one believe that watching video is really real.
U have become a customer of some producer and a fool.
Thas supposed to be comedic not personal! âŠ
Never walk around with a firearm loaded, shell in the chamber, cocked and safety off!
Not to say a firearm should not be loaded for your safety. If the safetyâs off U become your own Target!
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Guns should be legal in the UKâŠJust small arms to protect yourself or your business. Scallies are helping themselves to stock and just blatantly walking away. Shop owners are not allowed to apprehend or they could be facing charges.
The scallies might think twice if they risk taking a bullet to the knee.
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I believe Hunting Rifles and shotguns are if one has a permit.
Most likely semi autos are banned.
The cost of the permit may be hanging there too!
Considered not a right but a privilege to hunt. Most likely money
And a good lifestyle precludes any number of safely stored bolt
Action rifles and shotguns.
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I just think that itâs a bad situation when a shopkeeper canât protect his livelihood. The scallies know that these days there is nothing that the shopkeeper or their staff can do to stop them and they brazenly walk out of the store with handfuls of clothes, food and booze.
You didnât need protection in my younger day, there werenât that many scallies around, and people would step in to help if they saw someone stealing things in a shop, or attacking someone in the street. Itâs different now, you hardly know the people that live around you or pass through your community. We have even had people tied up, threatened and robbed in their own homes not far from where I live, and as I grow older I am less able to protect me or my family.
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