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Ray Donovan, despite being entertaining, has some serious problems with police procedure, evidence and forensics.
Ray is a fixer.
He's the guy who makes problems go away for the rich and famous in LA.
If only he was fucking better at it...
His boss, in a fit of rage, kills a former lover with a fire-poker.
Ray and his crew clean up the scene for the boss and create a false trail that the ex-lover stole a bunch of money and fled the country.
Someone who Ray had previously fucked over figured out Ray was involved.
This guy then gets into Ray's storage unit AND FINDS THE FUCKING MURDER WEAPON BEING STORED THERE!!!!!
He threatens Ray's boss over it and blackmails him into accusing Ray of committing the murder.
Boss's daughter doesn't back the accusation and tells the, truthful, story that Dad had murdered his lover.
Boss goes jail, happily ever after!
What about that whole accomplice after the fact and hiding the body and sanitizing the crime scene to hide evidence?
Ray and associates are still guilty of that!
Isn't that something the cops should look into? We never see anything suggesting there was a bribe or an exchange of favors.
FFS!
Don't even get me started on an earlier episode where Ray's daughter was laying in the back seat of an SUV when the driver and front passenger were shot at close range. The killer didn't notice her and she snuck off. She was covered in glass and blood; but forensics didn't notice that the back seat wasn't?
Keeping the murder weapon? What in thunder FOR, for the gods' sake? I knew better than that when I was ten years old! (Not that I would ever commit murder...*innocent look*) Even if it's a valuable antique or an important heirloom, if it's a murder weapon, you damn well GET THE FUCK RID OF IT! Preferably in some way that it can't be recovered, or if it is recovered, it can't be traced to you! This is elementary!
ReplyDeleteThe LAPD/LASD Forensic guys have long had a reputation of furk-up merchants, willing to not notice for something-something.
ReplyDeleteStill less corrupt than the vaunted FBI's Crime Lab, where due to their incompetence we almost lost fingerprint evidence as a viable tool, only being saved when computer analysis equipment came about. Their DNA lab has been repeatedly shown to be incompetent or just wrong. Same with their gunshot lab. And everything else.