Whenever they got to a point, where the detectives and CSI would be painstakingly going through the evidence, sifting out clues, they'd throw the suspect into "the cage," and beat a confession out of them.
His son is getting into the act, but seems to be more interested in depicting "the right way."
His show is an Amazon show, named On Call: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14582876/
I enjoyed it.
Besides any conscious philosophy of the producers & writers, perhaps making the show more character driven as opposed to procedural has an impact on the stories. Maybe it's easier to understand when a suspect's rights are being violated (and to not be banal about it) when you're writing a deeper portrayal of the person who wields the power.
"Officer Jones just blew the entire chain of custody around the bloody knife"
"Flabbodell vs Borkweather says they have to give you access to counsel within X hours and they just ran out the clock"
"This type of traffic stop is explicitly forbidden in 17 states, including the one this show is nominally set in"
1. https://chicagoreader.com/news/the-police-torture-scandals-a...
Main character tortures a low-level grunt
Gets false confession
Goes off on wild goose chase based on that confession
Bad guys get away with their plot as a result
“Yes, you were torturing me, I’d obviously have said anything to get you to stop.”
I feel like I’ve seen this sequence once or twice, but I can’t remember what it was in. It actually seems like something that is more likely to be put in a comedy, where the protagonist can be shown to be stupid occasionally. Maybe Brooklyn 99, or Barry, or something like that?