Does “CSI” Make The Real Detectives Look Dumb?

“The increasing sophistication with which television dramas have portrayed investigators in recent years nearly guarantees our disappointment when we encounter the real ones, who too often don’t display the intuitive or analytic genius of a Monk on ‘Monk’ or McNulty on ‘The Wire.’ ‘Crime 360’ unintentionally creates the suspicion that gadgetry has supplanted thinking.”