How Real is Too Real For Satellite TV Crime Shows?

If you're a big fan of real life crime shows, the ones that take you inside a police bust like Cops or Dog the Bounty Hunter, you might be thinking to yourself that all that second hand, already edited for content information just isn't good enough. Instead, you may want to see what's happening at the scene of the crime right as it goes down. You may even want to be able to go there and check it out for yourself. Luckily, if you life in Baltimore, you can with the help of SpotCrime.com. This website allows you to get free local crime reports and up to the minute maps of crime scene locations in your neighborhood. If you live outside of the greater Baltimore area, sit tight. The company has plans to expand.

While showing the world what the police are up to live via the internet might seem like going a bit too far, it's certainly not as far out there as showing such footage live on satellite TV. However, the television execs have "gone there," and soon SpotCrime programming will be available for viewing right from your home, live. This means that there's no more need to wait for the five o'clock news to see all the bad stuff that happened today, you can go right to your television and catch the action in high definition.

Iphone Application

Many people think of the service as helpful, and necessary for local citizens to know what's happening in their town. Others think of it as an opportunity to always know when area police are preoccupied. That's right, criminals can sign up for satellite TV and get internet access too. While the neatly packaged real crime shows shown today might be getting stale, it might be time to take a step back and ask what is really necessary to be shown on television.

As the world gets increasingly wired, it is leaning towards becoming entirely wireless. Now, with technology like the iPhone, it is possible to get an Application allowing you to see where crime, and cops, are at the moment even while on the road. This sounds like a great opportunity to commit the perfect crime. Taking the phrase 'opportunistic' to a whole new level, criminals of all kinds can save valuable seconds, once spent looking over their shoulder, to get the job done quickly and quietly.

Reality television is certainly entertaining, and crime prevention efforts are very important, but at some point satellite TV will have to draw a line between the two. Or at least it should draw a line. As this kind of information technology spreads across the country, allowing people to access information relating to police whereabouts by simply typing in their zip codes it's certain crime rates will change. The question is whether they will change for the better.

Currently on TruTV we can see crime chasers listening to their police radio scanners and heading to the scene of the crime when something comes across. This seems to be quickly changing to yesterday's technology. With any luck, the bad guys will take a while to catch on.

How Real is Too Real For Satellite TV Crime Shows?