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The DoJ actually has a grant program that pays networks to make these shows. Of course, there are criteria, like the police are shown to always be law-abiding, diverse, and caring of victims. Whites are shown as criminals instead of blacks, good cops never cover up for bad cops, and they always catch the criminal. You know, the complete opposite of reality in American policing?

It's one of the longest-running PsyOps in America, meant to discourage crime by instilling either admiration or fear of the legal system by always showing criminals getting caught, despite the reality that some 80% of homicides go unsolved in America. Financial crimes are given more attention and resources than murders. Look up the clearance rates of most major cities. It's pathetic.

The cops aren't as capable or intelligent as shows like "CSI" want us to believe. But the clearance rates don't entirely show how bad the situation is, because it doesn't rank cases by complexity/ difficulty. The homicides that do get solved are the lazy cases where the victim was known to their killer, like gang rivals, employees, neighbors, ex-boyfriends, etc. Or they pull cellphone data to see who was in the area at the time. They try to present that as "sophisticated" but it's actually really lazy, and it's far from their portrayal of police as omnipotent "demigods" that can see everything we do.

How many detectives in big cities do you think are losing sleep trying to solve every shooting in the hood? The truth is that police make their reports and move on to the next statistical occurrence. Ask a cop why they signed up. You're not going to get many heroic speeches. "It was a good job with great benefits." Yeah, there's a few Captain America's and a few American Psycho's on the police force, but most are just there for the pension and benefits.