The lack of cultural scrutiny on police stories is highlighted, contrasting it with the abundance of stories about professions like truck drivers, nurses, and teachers. Despite the significant number of police officers in the United States, there is a scarcity of narratives focusing on their experiences, in contrast to the numerous representations of other professions in popular culture.
Today, another episode from the Revisionist History Live universe. It's an old fashioned lecture, recorded at the New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University. Malcolm talks about a totally real thing he made up—a taxonomy of the modern mystery story—with a focus on murder mysteries and police procedurals. From Dragnet, to John Grisham, to Sherlock Holmes, it's all in there...and all connected to how we view real policing.
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