#crime procedural

[countesspetofi]

More from the Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars: George Takei in PERRY MASON, season three, episode four, "The Case of the Blushing Pearls" (original air date October 24, 1959).

George plays Toma Sakai, a friend and co-worker of Perry's client, a Japanese immigrant framed for the theft of a valuable piece of jewelry.

#george takei #star trek #star trek tos #star trek the original series #perry mason #1960s tv #1950s tv #tv sci fi #courtroom drama #crime procedural #raymond burr #william hopper #barbara hale #william tallman #nobu mccarthy #gay icons

[tinyreviews]

Movie Review: Anatomy of a Fall 2023. High-tension procedural.

What a thought-provoking story. Despite Sandra being unlikeable and Samuel being pathetic, I could empathize with both. And the ending could have gone either ways. Either Sandra is guilty and a lying psychopath, or innocent and an unfortunate victim of circumstance.

I especially empathized with Sandra’s writer need to over-explain things, to establish certain beats, literally beating around the bush before getting to the punchline. Her need to setup her points ironically makes her look more guilty, more defensive, resulting in a suspect, unlikeable character. Did you find Sandra unlikeable?

I really enjoyed the tension. Good pacing and reveals. 

Anatomy of a Fall (French: Anatomie d'une chute) is a 2023 French legal drama thriller film, directed by Justine Triet from a screenplay she co-wrote with Arthur Harari. It stars Sandra Hüller.

#anatomy of a fall #anatomie d'une chute #french movie #legal drama #crime procedural #procedural #sandra hüller #mystery #movie review #2023 #french cinema #french film #oscars

[thenerdsofcolor]

Brett Dalton Shares Why NBC’s ‘Found’ Felt Important to Him

NOC Interview: Brett Dalton Shares Why NBC’s ‘Found’ Felt Important to Him @IMBrettDalton #NBCFound @nbc @peacock

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#Actor #Brett Dalton #crime procedural #drama #exclusive interview #Found #Interview #NBC #new series #Television #TV

[forecast0ctopus]

say sike right now

#as someone with a longstanding dislike of crime procedurals this is so embarrassing for me #psych #psych tv #burton guster #shawn spencer #psych fanart #psych art #society if i could just put a show on while im working and not get too invested 🏙️🏙️🏙️ #dont use an offwhite/yellow bg or draw 25 #🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏

[gothicwill]

Putting the line “killing must feel good to god too. He does it all the time, and are we not made in his image?” In the first episode of your cannibal show was a bold ass move and I commend them for it everyday.

#“you thought this was gone be a regular crime procedural HAHA #hannibal #nbc hannibal #will graham #hannibal lecter #hannigram #nbc hannigram #hugh dancy #mads mikkelsen

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Microsoft put their tax-evasion in writing and now they owe $29 billion

I'm coming to Minneapolis! Oct 15: Presenting The Internet Con at Moon Palace Books. Oct 16: Keynoting the 26th ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing.

If there's one thing I took away from Propublica's explosive IRS Files, it's that "tax avoidance" (which is legal) isn't a separate phenomenon from "tax evasion" (which is not), but rather a thinly veiled euphemism for it:

https://www.propublica.org/series/the-secret-irs-files

That realization sits behind my series of noir novels about the two-fisted forensic accountant Martin Hench, which started with last April's Red Team Blues and continues with The Bezzle, this coming February:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865847/red-team-blues

A typical noir hero is an unlicensed cop, who goes places the cops can't go and asks questions the cops can't ask. The noir part comes in at the end, when the hero is forced to admit that he's being going places the cops didn't want to go and asking questions the cops didn't want to ask. Marty Hench is a noir hero, but he's not an unlicensed cop, he's an unlicensed IRS inspector, and like other noir heroes, his capers are forever resulting in his realization that the questions and places the IRS won't investigate are down to their choice not to investigate, not an inability to investigate.

The IRS Files are a testimony to this proposition: that Leona Hemsley wasn't wrong when she said, "Taxes are for the little people." Helmsley's crime wasn't believing that proposition – it was stating it aloud, repeatedly, to the press. The tax-avoidance strategies revealed in the IRS Files are obviously tax evasion, and the IRS simply let it slide, focusing their auditing firepower on working people who couldn't afford to defend themselves, looking for things like minor compliance errors committed by people receiving public benefits.

Or at least, that's how it used to be. But the Biden administration poured billions into the IRS, greenlighting 30,000 new employees whose mission would be to investigate the kinds of 0.1%ers and giant multinational corporations who'd Helmsleyed their way into tax-free fortunes. The fact that these elite monsters paid no tax was hardly a secret, and the impunity with which they functioned was a constant, corrosive force that delegitimized American society as a place where the rules only applied to everyday people and not the rich and powerful who preyed on them.

The poster-child for the IRS's new anti-impunity campaign is Microsoft, who, decades ago, "sold its IP to to an 85-person factory it owned in a small Puerto Rican city," brokered a deal with the corporate friendly Puerto Rican government to pay almost no taxes, and channeled all its profits through the tiny facility:

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-irs-decided-to-get-tough-against-microsoft-microsoft-got-tougher

That was in 2005. Now, the IRS has come after Microsoft for all the taxes it evaded through the gambit, demanding that the company pay it $29 billion. What's more, the courts are taking the IRS's side in this case, consistently ruling against Microsoft as it seeks to keep its ill-gotten billions:

https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-microsoft-audit-back-taxes-puerto-rico-billions

Now, no one expects that Microsoft is going to write a check to the IRS tomorrow. The company's made it clear that they intend to tie this up in the courts for a decade if they can, claiming, for example, that Trump's amnesty for corporate tax-cheats means the company doesn't have to give up a dime.

This gambit has worked for Microsoft before. After seven years in antitrust hell in the 1990s, the company was eventually convicted of violating the Sherman Act, America's bedrock competition law. But they kept the case in court until 2001, running out the clock until GW Bush was elected and let them go free. Bush had a very selective version of being "tough on crime."

But for all that Microsoft escaped being broken up, the seven years of depositions, investigations, subpoenas and negative publicity took a toll on the company. Bill Gates was personally humiliated when he became the star of the first viral video, as grainy VHS tapes of his disastrous and belligerent deposition spread far and wide:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/12/whats-a-murder/#miros-tilde-1

If you really want to know who Bill Gates is beneath that sweater-vested savior persona, check out the antitrust deposition – it's still a banger, 25 years on:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/09/revisiting-the-spectacular-failure-that-was-the-bill-gates-deposition/

In cases like these, the process is the punishment: Microsoft's dirty laundry was aired far and wide, its swaggering founder was brought low, and the company's conduct changed for years afterwards. Gates once told Kara Swisher that Microsoft missed its chance to buy Android because they were "distracted by the antitrust trial." But the Android acquisition came four years after the antitrust case ended. What Gates meant was that four years after he wriggled off the DoJ's hook, he was still so wounded and gunshy that he lacked the nerve to risk the regulatory scrutiny that such an anticompetitive merger would entail.

What's more, other companies got the message too. Large companies watched what happened to Microsoft and traded their reckless disregard for antitrust law for a timid respect. The effect eventually wore off, but the Microsoft antitrust case created a brief window where real competition was possible without the constant threat of being crushed by lawless monopolists. Sometimes you have to execute an admiral to encourage the others.

A decade in IRS hell will be even more painful for Microsoft than the antitrust years were. For one thing, the Puerto Rico scam was mainly a product of ex-CEO Steve Ballmer, a man possessed of so little executive function that it's a supreme irony that he was ever a corporate executive. Ballmer is a refreshingly plain-spoken corporate criminal who is so florid in his blatant admissions of guilt and shouted torrents of self-incriminating abuse that the exhibits in the Microsoft-IRS cases to come are sure to be viral sensations beyond even the Gates deposition's high-water mark.

It's not just Ballmer, either. In theory, corporate crime should be hard to prosecute because it's so hard to prove criminal intent. But tech executives can't help telling on themselves, and are very prone indeed to putting all their nefarious plans in writing (think of the FTC conspirators who hung out in a group-chat called "Wirefraud"):

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/03/big-tech-cant-stop-telling-on-itself/

Ballmer's colleagues at Microsoft were far from circumspect on the illegitimacy of the Puerto Rico gambit. One Microsoft executive gloated – in writing – that it was a "pure tax play." That is, it was untainted by any legitimate corporate purpose other than to create a nonsensical gambit that effectively relocated Microsoft's corporate headquarters to a tiny CD-pressing plant in the Caribbean.

But if other Microsoft execs were calling this a "pure tax play," one can only imagine what Ballmer called it. Ballmer, after all, is a serial tax-cheat, the star of multiple editions of the IRS Files. For example, there's the wheeze whereby he has turned his NBA team into a bottomless sinkhole for the taxes on his vast fortune:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/08/tuyul-apps/#economic-substance-doctrine

Or his "tax-loss harvesting" – a ploy whereby rich people do a "wash trade," buying and selling the same asset at the same time, not so much circumventing the IRS rules against this as violating those rules while expecting the IRS to turn a blind eye:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/24/tax-loss-harvesting/#mego

Ballmer needs all those scams. After all, he was one of the pandemic's most successful profiteers. He was one of eight billionaires who added at least a billion more to his net worth during lockdown:

https://inequality.org/great-divide/billionaire-bonanza-2020/

Like all forms of rot, corruption spreads. Microsoft turned Washington State into a corporate tax-haven and starved the state of funds, paving the way for other tax-cheats like Amazon to establish themselves in the area. But the same anti-corruption movement that revitalized the IRS has also taken root in Washington, where reformers instituted a new capital gains tax aimed at the ultra-wealthy that has funded a renaissance in infrastructure and social spending:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/03/when-the-tide-goes-out/#passive-income

If the IRS does manage to drag Microsoft through the courts for the next decade, it's going to do more than air the company's dirty laundry. It'll expose more of Ballmer's habitual sleaze, and the ways that Microsoft dragged a whole state into a pit of austerity. And even more importantly, it'll expose the Puertopia conspiracy, a neocolonial project that transformed Puerto Rico into an onshore-offshore tax-haven that saw the island strip-mined and then placed under corporate management:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/27/boricua/#que-viva-albizu

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/13/pour-encoragez-les-autres/#micros-tilde-one

My next novel is The Lost Cause, a hopeful novel of the climate emergency. Amazon won't sell the audiobook, so I made my own and I'm pre-selling it on Kickstarter!

#pluralistic #irs #puerto rico #puertopia #microsoft #micros~1 #tax avoidance #tax evasion #pure tax play #big tech can't stop telling on itself #corporate crime #rough ride #the procedure is the punishment #steve ballmer #pour encouragez les autres

[horrorlesbians]

shows like nbc hannibal and true detective (season one at least) are not cop propaganda at their core. criminal minds and b99 are. hope this helps

#🦌 #dexter counts too. probably twin peaks too but i haven't finished that (as not cop prop) #you can talk about how the crime procedural as a genre may always lean cop prop but if you #walk away from the show thinking 'wow they're so good at catching bad guys and saving the day' its cop prop #and you DO NOT think that leaving either shows #like yeah will and rust (and marty) are good investigators but they are shown going clearly out of their power and abusing it in some cases

[fereldanwench]

night city noir 🌃

⚠️ do not reupload or edit my shots without my permission ⚠️

#goro takemura #takemura goro #takemura tuesday #takemura x v #cyberpunk 2077 #cp2077edit #cp2077 screenshots #cyberpunk 2077 photomode #cyberpunk 2077 v #cyberpunk 2077 oc #female v #fem v #c: goro takemura #oc: valerie v powell #ship: goro x valerie #g: cyberpunk 2077 #mine: edits #misc: queued #i did these a couple months ago #the crime procedural/neon noir shit has been a bit of a brainrot recently #idk if this is worth a full au #(famous last words ik) #but i do love the idea of them being detectives together

[queerholmcs]

hbomberguy's thesis is Flawed. also i don't remember him ever mentioning gatiss

LITERALLY!!! he spends an hour and fifty minutes complaining about how he hates moffat like he's the only person responsible for the show and his entire beef with the show comes down to "i have only engaged with the material on a very surface-level reading and i think they're clever little detective stories and i want any adaptation of the material to be a detective procedural done as a serial with isolated episodes. how dare you call the show SHERLOCK (in all caps) and then spend the majority of the runtime showing us the characters and not the crimes. also john watson literally serves no purpose and sherlock himself is just an absolute asshole all the time, we know this because he says he's a sociopath and also here are three clips of him being a pedantic dick, i am very good at engaging with media. tsot was a stupid episode because it opens with an insanely overproduced and high-effort scene for the sake of one stupid joke about how sherlock is thoughtless about other people's lives and then most of the episode is just sherlock standing in a room talking, he's not even solving crimes." and i'm like. literally What Are You Talking About shdkshdkdhdk. did we watch the same show. i have never watched someone be so wrong about so many things with such conviction.

#i watched the second half on 2x speed waiting for there to be another Point #but no it really was just “i wanted a crime procedural serial and this was really bad at being one (because it wasn't one)” #like he almost had a point with moffat being a dick to his audience at the end there but the rest of it was in such bad faith #i'm not giving him credit shdjshdkshdkh #ANYWAY. i think that's all i'll say on that. it sure was a way to spend an evening. #and fwiw i do enjoy a lot of his other videos! this one was just like. buddy... you just missed the point from the start huh... i'm sorry...

[nowherelaney]

So much for stardust (the song) has such a procedural crime show transition scene vibe to it. Like when they’re going through forensics and stuff.

#do you know what i mean #the instrumentals specifically #fall out boy #so much for stardust #fob #patrick stump #pete wentz #joe trohman #andy hurley #text post #txt post #like early 2000s crime procedural

[polyamorouspunk]

Everyone talks about bad polyam rep but I feel like the bad polyam rep I see the most is in crime procedural shows where a victim and their spouse/partner is like “we have an open relationship” and the cops are like “clearly that’s a motive because you are clearly jealous” and when the spouse/partner is like “no I’m really not” then they usually attack them for not being traditional.

#not saying that crime procedurals are the pinical of representation of whatever but as someone who watches them I see it a lot

[disenchanted-youth]

These two really ticked off the doctor with their mind-blowing night escapade. How do we feel about the teaser for next week's episode? I can already feel the pain. Phaya's gonna drown and Tharn will obviously try to push him away again. Phaya is too stubborn to let him pull away, but it's gonna be a pain until then. They really can't enjoy their happiness for long and we're stuck suffering with them.

Besides that, everyone who chose Billy and Babe to play Phaya and Tharn deserves major props. Their chemistry is off the charts and they perfectly embody their characters. Like I really can't picture any one else in those roles. It's a delight watching them act together. To be honest, every single casting choice of this show has been amazing, even the guest stars.

#i need this show to not stress me out for one episode #is that too much to ask #just let them be happy for a episode and solve the week's crimes #that teaser took out all the wind from under my wing that 5/5 gave me #the sign the series #the sign #as someone who used to be obsessed with procedural cop shows #i'm loving how this show scratches that itch #if next ep gives me more mythology i'll have no more complaints

[mellomemos]

I really can not explain it but some of the writing in Disco Elysium matches this exact energy

#disco elysium #games #harry du bois #kim kitsuragi #hi hi I’ve been playing disco elysium and it’s very fun and I love it so much #it’s incredible #it gets so many things right that are often ignored or gotten wrong in other pieces of police procedural media #and also calls out the true crime community lmao #that being said #fuck this game for having a completely accurate death notification scene #learning how to do that in my forensics training was a fucking awful experience

[hurtthemgently]

I wanna become a professor so I can be that eccentric character in every investigation procedural who solves all the crimes using their chosen field of study

#bones #hannibal #numb3rs #criminal minds #scorpion #perception #probably more but these are the only ones I’ve seen #edit adding more #person of interest #csi cbs #izombie #(talking about the virologist as the medical examiner) #on the other side #leverage #does house count? #it’s not a crime procedural but it is a procedural #almost paradise #the x files #fringe

[pickletrip]

I had the pleasure of watching a beautiful Chinese crime drama called 'Under the Skin'. This was on someone's recommended list on Tumblr and I'm always excited to check out new shows and stories from Asian countries. Boldly I set out to start this show and what a beautiful ride it has been. Tan Jian Ci as Shen Yi and Jin Shi Jia as Du Cheng was truly a wonderful pairing.

There were so many stories surrounding women and involving women that I was surprised and happy to see how the cases were solved. There were some far reaching elements in the plot occasionally but then which crime drama doesn't have these unbelievable elements.

I loved this show because it brought into focus a side of investigation that we rarely see on screen - Portraitist, the one who sketches and brings to life the person from just a description. Shen Yi was a well rounded character with great motivation to do what he did as an artist and Du Cheng was equally compelling as the officer who strove to fight for justice.

These are some of the paintings and sketches Shen Yi drew and we see this in the last scene of the last episode. He kept a record of all the cases he was involved in and look how beautifully he brought out the pain and joy involved in each story.

And we were left with this cliffhanger and I heard there's a season 2 that they've been considering and talking about. I'd be delighted to watch season 2 of Under the Skin. If anyone wants to watch something different, give this show a chance.

A hearty thanks to @lurkingshan for the recommendation. I'll probably get to all the other recommendations soon.

#under the skin #chinese drama #cdrama #猎罪图鉴 #tan jianci #jin shijia #police procedural #crime drama #police drama #shen yi #du cheng #portraitist #such a good satisfying watch

[countesspetofi]

More from The Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars: Nearly five years before James T. Kirk set off on his five-year mission into space, William Shatner guest-stars in "Portrait of a Painter," episode 14 of the third season of "Naked City" (original airdate January 10, 1962).

Roger Barmer (Shatner) is a disturbed young artist who believes he may have killed his wife during an epilepsy-related blackout. He confides in his doctor, who convinces him to turn himself in to the police. It is a very sensitive performance, nearly free of the swagger that we've come to expect. The physical resemblance between young Shatner and Merritt Butrick (David Marcus) is very noticeable here.

Given the 1960s medical establishment's belief in homosexuality as a mental illness, the discussion of Roger's issues with women and intimacy (and his mother, oh, you have so much to answer for, Dr. Freud), the physical clinginess he displays toward the doctor, and body language that I recognize as coded for femininity and submission from my own Shakespearian training, I don't think I'm reaching too awfully far when I see some queer subtext in the extended scene in the doctor's office. (He looks like he could be playing Desdemona or Ophelia on that couch.)

Other Trek connections: The doctor is portrayed by Theodore Bikel, who played Worf's adoptive father Sergei Rozhenko in the Star Trek: The Next Generation fourth-season episode "Family." I nearly didn't recognize him without his signature beard, but the voice was unmistakable.

#image heavy #william shatner #naked city #1960s tv #crime drama #police procedural #star trek #trar trek tos #star trek the original series #star trek tng #star trek the next generation #theodore bikel #tv sci fi #queer coding #epilepsy #emotional disturbance