A “person of interest” pictured in photos widely distributed by police was detained Friday night in the gruesome case of a dismembered body found in a suitcase South of Market, San Francisco, California officials said.
Like the forensic cop shows on television (see CSI:(insert place)) attempt to simulate in unreal time, actual procedural police work as a deductive process rather than repression/militarization occurs on a daily basis, not unlike how cops of the time thought
Adam-12 was most like their daily routine. An anonymous tip brought this man to the attention of the San Francisco police within the first 48 hours often highlighted by reality cop television.
A man was detained Friday night in connection with a suitcase that had been found on a downtown San Francisco street stuffed with dismembered human remains, as police looked into the possibility that organized crime or a gang was responsible, authorities said.
Police Chief Greg Suhr confirmed the "person of interest" was detained for questioning in the Tenderloin district, the San Francisco Chronicle reported (http://bit.ly/...).
The move came only hours after police released grainy surveillance photos of a man wearing a striped baseball cap, light blue jeans and a blue and orange jacket.
The suitcase was found Wednesday afternoon on a street in the city's South of Market neighborhood. More body parts were found in a trash can nearby.
The condition of the man's torso has police considering the possibility that organized crime or a gang was responsible for the remains, Officer Albie Esparza told the Chronicle. He did not elaborate in the story.
A Police Procedural is concerned with an accurate representation of the day to day realities and procedures of the police. It's a very specific sub-genre of crime fiction. The Police Procedural is almost the antithesis of the Cop Show. The Police Procedural is characterized by the lack of emphasis on the character's personal lives and the increased focus on the nuts-and-bolts of law enforcement.
This term is also sometimes used specifically to describe the "Reverse Whodunnit" style of crime drama made famous by Columbo, despite the fact that most examples have very little to do with actual police procedure.
Both the Police Procedural and the Cop Show are sometimes called "Precinct Shows".
This is the more interesting aspect of such reality since it has the ability to generate so much other fictional speculation, for example the remains' proximity to the dance clubs on that street, if gangs, then message....etc.
Because deduction rhymes with reduction, you can easily remember that in deduction, you start with a set of possibilities and reduce it until a smaller subset remains.
For example, a murder mystery is an exercise in deduction. Typically, the detective begins with a set of possible suspects — for example, the butler, the maid, the business partner, and the widow. By the end of the story, he or she has reduced this set to only one person — for example, "The victim died in the bathtub but was moved to the bed. But, neither woman could have lifted the body, nor could the butler with his war wound. Therefore, the business partner must have committed the crime."
Induction begins with the same two letters as the word increase, which can help you remember that in induction, you start with a limited number of observations and increase that number by generalizing.
For example, suppose you spend the weekend in a small town and the first five people you meet are friendly, so you inductively conclude the following: "Everybody here is so nice." In other words, you started with a small set of examples and you increased it to include a larger set.
7:46 PM PT: Mark Jeffrey Andrus was booked into San Francisco jail at 2:24 a.m. on suspicion of one count of murder, records show. Police said he is 59, but jail records give his age as 54. He is being held without bail. The victim has not been identified, and authorities did not immediately say Saturday how the man had died.