Woe is CSI: New York and the Law and Order franchise

... as "New York City crime rates at record low: police" from Reuters.

I joke that tv shows like CSI: Miami are hardly "advertisements" for tourism, even though they are pretty fake and disconnected from reality.

But with Law and Order, Law and Order Criminal Intent, Law and Order Special Victims Unit, plus CSI: New York, each year they produce more episodes than there are murders in Manhattan, I think the number for 2009 will be under 70 ... (although many of the shows seem to go outside of New York County into the other boroughs).

It's definitely an endorsement of the "broken windows" theory, and focusing resources in a comprehensive and data-driven manner, on interdicting and reducing crime.