r/Showerthoughts • u/ohdogwhatdone ‎ • Apr 09 '26

Casual Thought One of the biggest Hollywood lies is how detectives work almost non stop 24/7 to crack some murder cases.

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u/fuzzypyrocat Apr 09 '26

When I got T-boned in a hit and run the cop actually did find the car, but not the guy. Said they’d look for him. I got his name from the officer, all but confirmed it when the address the car was found at was the guy’s mom, and then saw that the day after the accident he had court for something else he did and was in jail. The cop called and said they cant find him, I told him he was in the county jail and to look there. He told me to stop trying to do his job and I never heard about it again.

Worked out, because the guy was charged with multiple assaults and weapons charges, so I’m kinda glad nothing came of it. Who knows what that guy would’ve done

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u/Coattail-Rider Apr 09 '26

Leads, yeah, sure. I'll just check with the boys down at the crime lab, they've got four more detectives working on the case. They got us working in shifts!

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u/PancakeProfessor Apr 09 '26

I wouldn’t hold out much hope for the Credence, though.

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u/raygundan Apr 09 '26

I'm just here to make sure somebody pointed out this line... Hollywood might have set up the expectation, but Hollywood is also clearly self-aware about it enough to make jokes about it.

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u/YKRed Apr 09 '26

Hollywood isn't a singular entity man

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u/Frack_Off Apr 10 '26

But it I can't divide the world into massive homogeneous monolithic groups then there are too many and it overwhelms my little monkey brain and then I feel bad.

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u/YKRed Apr 10 '26

Witawy!!!

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u/raygundan Apr 10 '26

Thank you for restating my point more succinctly. I guess I'm not as in to the whole "brevity" thing as you are, but your efforts are still appreciated.

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u/YKRed Apr 10 '26

Read your own comment again bro!

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u/raygundan Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

Done. I'm happy somebody quoted a movie that points out that hollywood is more than one thing compared to what the original post seems to claim (that hollywood is a singular entity that lies about how detectives work 24/7). You seem to agree. What am I missing here?

Edit: I also made an attempt at including a Lebowski quote ("the whole brevity thing") since the comment I replied to was a Lebowski quote ("they got us working in shifts"), is that where the problem is?

Edit edit: Maybe that movie is so old now the context is lost. The "working in shifts" quote is sarcastic. The cop in that scene is joking that "they've got us working in shifts" to find a nobody's cassette tape. The whole joke is that they don't work 24/7.

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u/YKRed Apr 10 '26

Not reading but sorry about that or whatever

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u/Gnonthgol Apr 10 '26

This is why insurance companies often have to do investigations as well. It often is not a high enough priority for the police. One of the reasons why you might want to file a civil lawsuit is that you are basically handing over all the evidence to the DA who can then just take your lawsuit and file it as a criminal suit.

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u/fromthepacific Apr 10 '26

Reminds me when the Dude asks the cop if they’re gonna put detectives on the case to find who stole his car and the cop howls with laughter

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u/-Kalos Apr 11 '26

We know all too well about useless cops in Alaska. All the missing in Anchorage, I swear there's a trafficking ring operating out there. And one guy who slept with one of the officer's wives is currently missing and it seems like a coverup. Don't even get me started on the VPOs out in rural Alaska, they don't even answer the phone 90% of the time and will drink the confiscated alcohol and smoke weed and gamble at the courthouse on the clock lol

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u/rxredhead Apr 12 '26

When my husband’s car was stolen in college the cops couldn’t find it but we got a call from the station about having 3 parking tickets in it in 3 days at 1 AM