u/JoelPomales

So like I mentioned in another post, and I am sort of new to this sub, I'm a big fan of OTR crime procedurals. Heard a whole lot of them and I can recall most. But last night I heard one for the first time that has had me thinking all day.

I'm going to set it up. This is Dragnet "A big something something".

Ex-Con leaves Fulton. Not escapes, leaves. He's done. Couple of days later, he goes to the house (how did he know?) of the cop that arrested him and offs him with a shotgun. A cop is dead, that means all hands on deck.

The Ex-Con is on the run. He commandeered a friend's car, ditches the shotgun, gets a .45 and he's running. He gets to a store (grocery or pharmacy, I can't remember) robs it and offs the manager or an employee. So now it's to homicides.

Long story short. They nab him in some hills, he got up to a tree and fires upon the cops, Joe Friday, Romero, et al. But tosses the .45 that killed the store clerk. They can't find it.

So they got him for the killing of the cop. First degree, and jury doesn't want to send him to the gas chamber. Life, with the possibility of parole.

Now, the cops *know* he killed the store clerk. Or at least, they suspect that. But they need the gun, which the Ex-Con threw away in some hills (I'm not familiar with LA geography; they have a name). They can't accuse him of *that* murder since they don't have the gun. So Joe's captain convinces him to pose as a prisoner in jail awaiting trial while the Ex-Con is awaiting sentencing so that he can string him up and see if the Ex-Con says where the gun is.

And with some cockamamie scheme, he does. And he gets convicted of the second murder. And *yet*, the jury doesn't sentence him to death. They give him life without the possibility of parole.

I tell you. I am not a lawyer, but these things defy logic. Like in many procedurals, the cops, or the detective, goes to the landlord and asks in to someone's apartment and they go "yeah, here's the key! Help yourself to a chicken liver sandwich and there's the liquor cabinet!".

Wild.

I listen to OTR shows because they help me fall asleep. LOL. Mostly crime related shows (Dragnet, Broadway, Spade (not a big fan of Sam, at least on the radio), Marlowe, etc.

One thing that I've been thinking lately is how casual, how common even, is the mention of capital punishment in many of the shows after someone offs another person. Dragnet, for example, sends a whole lot of people to the gas chamber. Broadway to the chair. I'm guessing that, at the time, this was very common? There are plenty of examples of this.

I find it interesting although I am opposed to it.

This is something that I've noted a lot everytime I log in with an admin account.

I created a separate admin account and disabled the default admin account. I also use 2FA and a very strong password.

If I log in to do admin stuff (updates, mostly) and I walk away, DSM doesn't kick me out as it should. If I use a 'normal' non-admin account it locks me out. I've tried to see if there's a setting somewhere for that account, but I have not found one. Any ideas?

Aside from the fact that the organizers tell people not to bring dogs, and they still do, I really feel for the babies and small kids.