Jeremiah 2:32 "Can a
maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten
me days without number."
Police procedural stories
seem easy to write. With all the cop shows on television and at the movies, we
think we are familiar with what goes on at the police department when they are
investigating a crime.
But if we write police
procedurals based only on that knowledge, our stories will suffer. Based on the
other worlds we have researched, we know that sometimes we change facts to fit
the story we are trying to tell.
Until we do the research
for ourselves, we won’t know what facts other writers have changed. Even though
most of the crime world stories seem very similar, those who actually are
police folk, detectives, and other crime-stopping related folk will know we
have been lax about the facts when we base our work on the fictional work of
others.
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