Sentences with phrase «police procedurals on»

Many of the police procedurals on TV would collapse if they couldn't show the lead characters finding somebody by tracking his / her cellphone signal.

Strongly recommended to all who like their police procedurals on the cerebral side.

When not scoping out the newest fiction, Jo can be found teaching professional stretching (aka Pilates) to her (mostly complying) colleagues, performing with her band, dancing, reading or watching police procedurals on Netflix.

Although Mirielle Enos» talents are wasted — she anchors a police procedural on television, but this Hollywood movie is content to cast her as a standard - issue Dutiful Wife — there are some dandy cameos and supporting turns.

Not exact matches

It's clear that today even the best language - parsing engines and related algorithms are no match for the old family connectivity trees built out of bright - colored Post-its tacked to the wall, or the white boards that we see every night on the tube in the police procedural shows like Law and Order.

In fact, Bratton recently ran into Tom Selleck at Elio's and pointed out to his friend, who plays a New York City police commissioner on CBS's «Blue Bloods,» that his character's wearing of a uniform is a procedural and sartorial faux pas.

The police - procedural aspect of the film is pretty stock stuff, with the cops circling Pascal, closing in on him.

Meanwhile, the film is based on the first Mickey Haller novel by ace crime novelist Michael Connelly, who literally reinvented the L.A. noir novel with his realistic procedural series starring iconoclastic police detective Harry Bosch and now his Lincoln Lawyer series featuring attorney - at - law Michael «Mick» Haller.

The predecessor to the TNT series The Closer, Major Crimes checks in for its final season on DVD that's a pretty standard Police procedural drama.

While the premise of the film sounds like something you might see on any one of the many police procedural shows on television, it has a decidedly different feel than prime time.

Whether you make it to that pay - off punch will depend, to a large degree, on how much recycled police procedural you can stomach.

This fresh spin on the police procedural takes inspiration from Michael Connelly's novels and plays it pretty safe, smartly integrating genre conventions with its own voice.

by Walter Chaw Leaden with mock gravitas and embarrassing aspirations to the Shakespearean, Michael Caton - Jones's aggressively uninteresting City by the Sea is a purported true story (based on an article by Michael McAlary) that proves to be just another by - the - numbers police procedural crunched with an abortive middle - age romance and a stultifying Oedipal complication.

The difficulties with the film spring from the misunderstanding that it somehow adheres to the conventions of a thriller or a police procedural when, in fact, The Caveman's Valentine is a superhero fable that takes on the cause of the homeless (again like McFarlane's Spawn) while attacking the entrenched ruling classes in government and the arts.

AGATHA PASSED ON STUDIO: ABC Studios TEAM: Tom Donaghy (w, ep), Mark Gordon (ep), Nick Pepper (ep), Michael McDonald (ep), Jace Alexander (d) LOGLINE: A character - driven procedural about a former convict - turned - big - city criminologist who is brought in to help local police crack a case involving a perplexing disappearance.

The film's only decent male figure is Harvey Keitel's Hal Slocumb, the compassionate Arkansas cop who's hot on the duo's trail, but — as befitting a story that presents testosterone as a dangerous enemy of female independence — he's barely heard from except during police procedural sequences in which he interviews suspects, taps phone lines, and argues with superiors in an unconvincing Southern accent.

Writer / director Hong - jin Na's The Wailing is a strange film that shifts from a police procedural to a complicated supernatural mystery that involves ghosts, demonic possessions, blood rituals, and zombies, before the whole bonkers affair ends on a note of metaphysical tragedy.

Armored Car Robbery (1950) is a superb marriage of gangster getaway thriller and police procedural with gravel - voiced Charles McGraw on the trail of the crook (future Perry Mason co-star William Tallman) who shot his partner.

Detective Trousers In The Beat Goes On is an animated police procedural featuring animal detectives.

The volatile culture of the setting enriches the procedural but it's the partnership of American homicide detective Sonya Cross (Diane Kruger), an obsessive, brilliant, by - the - book cop with borderline Asperger's symptoms, and Chihauhau State Police detective Marco Ruiz (Demian Bichir), a moral cop in an amoral system who latches on to this cross-jurisdictional case because it may allow him to do real police work unencumbered by corrupt bosses, that defines thePolice detective Marco Ruiz (Demian Bichir), a moral cop in an amoral system who latches on to this cross-jurisdictional case because it may allow him to do real police work unencumbered by corrupt bosses, that defines thepolice work unencumbered by corrupt bosses, that defines the show.

On just about every police procedural, you can tell who the main guy is without watching the show, because the casting is a spoiler: just take a look at who is being featured as the «guest» star for that episode.

About mysteries and crime novels of all kinds: thrillers, cozies, thrillzies, police procedurals, P.I. novels, Irish crime novels, Scandinavian crime novels, Antarctic crime novels, original e-books, short stories, nonfiction about the mystery, classic novels and graphic novels, and on and on.

In Darkness & andamp; Light, British novelist John Harvey, author of the Frank Elder police procedural series, brings the veteran cop out of retirement (yet again, and somewhat reluctantly on Elder's part) to solve the case of a middle - aged woman who has gone missing after a succession of Internet - arranged dates, some with surfers of dubious integrity.

Now the Cape Town crime writer returns with Dead Before Dying, a gripping police procedural centered on a serial murder case in which the common denominator is that there is no common denominator.

Favorite nonfiction genres include memoirs, biography, and autobiography, while in fiction she particularly enjoys work on mysteries, police procedurals, suspense, and thrillers, and has completed ghostwriting assignments as well.

So when the sale ends, I'll have six $ 3.99 ebooks ranked high on the genre bestseller lists (horror, occult, police procedural) and I expect they'll stick there for long enough for me to make up the money I've lost (for the free days, sale days, and ad costs), plus a tidy profit.

That Kindle Exclusive debut novel is currently among the top 1,000 bestselling books in the Kindle Store and it's # 12 on the «Police Procedurals» category bestseller list.

Those should give our customs department some thought, as there are books on Forensics, Police Procedurals and How to kill somebody with poison.

As I write this, «Claw Back» is No. 95 on the police procedural bestseller list.

Annelie Wendeberg is an award - winning author of historical and climate fiction, and has been using AMS ads on three of her books in the past few months: The Devil's Grin (Victorian mystery / thriller), Keeper of Pleas (Victorian mystery / police procedural), and 1/2986 (Climate Fiction / Hard Science Fiction).

So, fans of police procedurals may be as excited as I was to read on Ed Goreman's blog that Hard Case Crime will be publishing two lost novels by Ed McBain, both of which have been unavailable for over 50 years.

On the other hand it wants to be a police procedural with a hefty dose of action and a cops versus robber multiplayer.

It's an odd choice for Spooky Doorway's decidedly goofy take on a paranormal police procedural, but Prunty's score adds a layer of eldritch menace to offset the silly dialogue.

Apparently, the patent office thought people might confuse a video game that few people remember with a police procedural that nobody remembers (though its description on Wikipedia makes it sound hilariously terrible).

It mixes superhero fantasy, crime noir and the police procedural, a blend that you'll be able to taste test on all devices that can access PlayStation Network.

«If Republicans had objected on procedural grounds,» Zach Carter writes, «the could have simply sent the crew to the front desk, rather than ordering police to arrest journalists.

The Bill represents a step backwards in Canadian justice reform, which threatens to erode individual rights and procedural safeguards, slow down the Court system, and shield police officers from cross-examination on their actions.

There are numerous procedural requirements on statements obtained by the police, such as the famous case of Miranda v. Arizona which requires police to inform a person in custody of their relevant rights.

There are procedural limits as well, because search warrants must be based on probable cause and police do not have unlimited powers.

To illustrate the problem with accusing judges of bias, given the term's various meanings, the article focuses on recent federal litigation over NYC police stop - and - frisk policy in which (1) the district judge found «implicit bias» in police practices based on accumulated evidence and expert analysis, (2) the Second Circuit found that the district judge engaged in disqualifying judicial bias because of her comments in a prior related lawsuit and in the media, and (3) critics accused the Second Circuit of bias in making decisions that were hard to justify on either procedural or substantive grounds.

As the majority explained, if Mr. Penner knew that the police disciplinary proceedings were his only shot at administrative justice, he would presumably have insisted on all of his procedural rights (see paras. 62 - 63).

In addition, we look at policing, currently the focus of the majority of criminal justice research on procedural fairness, but we retain an emphasis on the courts.

The Effects of Trust in Authority and Procedural Fairness on Cooperation (link to paid article) David de Cremer & Tom Tyler, 92 Journal of Applied Psychology 639 (2007) Contrary to a 1998 study by Van den Bos et al., Cremer and Tyler found that, when trust in authority is high, procedural fairness has a strong effect on cooperation wiProcedural Fairness on Cooperation (link to paid article) David de Cremer & Tom Tyler, 92 Journal of Applied Psychology 639 (2007) Contrary to a 1998 study by Van den Bos et al., Cremer and Tyler found that, when trust in authority is high, procedural fairness has a strong effect on cooperation wiprocedural fairness has a strong effect on cooperation with police.

The present study utilizes survey data collected from a representative sample of 1,204 Australians to show that the effect of procedural justice on victims» willingness to report crime to police is context specific.

Occasionally on police procedurals some well - meaning or otherwise bystander disturbs the absolute sanctity of a crime scene before Our Heroes ™ can perform a CSI montage.

By looking at two surveys of New Yorkers, the study determines that procedural fairness is key to both white and minority group residents in creating legitimacy and that legitimacy has a strong influence on the public's perceptions of the police.

The result is very entertaining, inflammatory, and doubtless sells newspapers but does serious violence to the administration of justice and the presumption of innocence — two principles Ms. Blatchford has shown general disdain for on numerous prior occasions (unless the accused happens to be a police officer in which case she becomes a born - again believer in the Charter and all its myriad procedural rights heretofore known as «technicalities»).