SVU

In this weeks episode of SVU there were a lot of underlying messages. The most contriversal message was to me was that of currupt cops. However, these cops were not just characters brought in for the show, they were the detectives who are the main characters, the dectives we've grown to love and can not picture being "bad." Detective Benson was being accused of giving her fugitive boyfriend money, which is obviously not good considering her line of work and she decides at the end to confess and face what is coming to her. Fin is being questioned for bringing home evidence (gun and drugs) instead of immediatly logging it at the station. This was an accident however it is a huge deal. Detective Stabler had gotten his daughter off of a DUI charge and when this was brought up in trial the judge had to request to leave because she knew about this, and knew it was true. Stabler had to have his daughter arrested and face the charges like a normal citzen. The captain is facing heat do to all the contriversy with his detectives and may have to take a leave of absense.

This episode had a million other story lines but these issues really struck me because cops are always getting heat for their mistake and or what they do wrong. All of these characters are very good people who got caught up, and are now paying for their mistakes.

SVU

The episode I watched started with a person dying in jail. He had been raped with an object so roughly that his colon had been punctured and he died from internal bleeding. This was a controversal because Benson and Stabler found out that it was the arresting cops that inflicted this damage on the prisioner. When they started investigating this case, they found out that these two cops had killed a multitude of other perps. One was getting paid to kill off drug dealers and make it look like it was out of self defense. The other cop went along with it becuase he felt that he owed it to his partner. The last cop said that he would testify against his partner. This guilt proved to be too much and he hung himself while in jail waiting for his trial. This episode was controversal because it dealt with dirty cops. Although they were getting drug dealers "off the streets", they were killing people for their own agenda. We are supposed to trust cops to do the right thing and protect us, and these cops were killing people for money.

Law And Order SVU

In this weeks episode of Law and Order was about a lady and her "nephew". The"nephew" was brought in on murder charges and they needed the lady to testify involving her being raped. She would not testify, but they kept on trying to get her too. Finally she decided that she would after the female detective convinced her to and told her that she was a product of a rape. While testifying the "nephew" got up and questioned her about the rape. She ended up being his mother not his aunt. He also kept asking who raped her and she said it was her father. That is why she hated her nephew so much, she couldn't stand to look at him without seeing her father. The jury ended up coming to a verdict of not guilty for all counts on him. It is really sad the things that happen in todays world especially some one getting raped by their father, it is just sick. I think that we need more help for these people so they can try to live somewhat of a normal life without always hating the product of the rape because it wasn't their fault.

Law & Order: SVU

Tonight I watched an episode of Law & Order:SVU about a woman who was murdered; she had been stabbed and raped. When the detectives found her they also found a room in her house where she was growing a large amount of marijuana. After the autopsy, the detectives found out that the victim had cancer and she was growing it to help her sooth the side effects of her chemo treatments. In the end, the detectives find out that it was two boys in the sixth grade who thought the woman was a drug dealer and broke into her house to steal money from her, but one of the boys ended up stabbing her and raping her while the other stood and watched; he ended up throwing up and covered the woman with a blanket because he said he couldn't leave someone like that.
I think this episode is reflecting on the larger societal issue of kids growing up too fast. The boy who killed the woman was only in sixth grade and he felt no remorse for stabbing her or raping her, he said she was asking for it.

Law + Order : SVU [HARM]

Last night's episode of SVU was quite interesting though it wasn't really my taste seeing as though it was somewhat confusing and filled with political drama. The episode starts off as a woman is stabbed and left for dead. It is later determined that the woman did some type of work with Arabic refugees. We go on to find out that Kate, the woman who had been stabbed, was receiving phone calls from an anonymous caller who had been harassing her. After the calls are traced, Benson + Stabler arrive at the house where the calls were traced from. They find the suspect had died though his wife was not quite bought on the fact that it was a simple heart attack. It is later found that Habas, the suspect, was tortured several times which led him to have a heart attack. Habas' wife then found that it was the fault of the US government, and Kate was trying to help Habas spread his story to the world about being tortured in Iraq.
In the end of the episode we find that both Kate and Habas were set up to be murdered by Faith Sutton, who trained the man who was to kill the two of them. The trail of Faith Sutton was declared a mistrial and she temporarily lost her license as a doctor.

Law and Order SVU

This week's episode was all over the place. It started out with a woman who had been stabbed in the heart, blead to death, and might have been raped. This woman worked with refugees from Iraq, since she could speak Arabic. The center lead the detectives to a home where some of the refugees lived. The woman had said that her husband had died the same night has the other woman had. After some questioning, the detectives found out that the man had been part of an interrogation by the governement; a cruel torturing that "allegedly" did not leave long term physical or mental damage. The woman who was killed was helping the man write a tell-all book to expose what the government was doing. Although the man died from a heart attack, he had it because he had heart failure from being forced to stay in a freezing ice bath for over 48 hours. The detectives found the woman who taught the army how to use these interrogation "tactics" and tried her for negligance homicide. The trial was declared a mistrial, but the "doctor" temorarily lost her liscence. This was a big political episode. The part about the doctor and the torturing well shown well, but they left a lot of loose ends untied, a lot of unanswered questions.

Law & Order SVU

The Law & Order on tonight was very political, which also made it somewhat confussing. The government was a huge part of it because it was about how they were being questioned for their techniques on questioning iraqi prisoners in iraqi. Someone they had previously questioned years before had a heart attack in a resturerant when he regconizes a soilder and a doctor who had locked him up, tortured, and beat him in Iraq years before. The DA wants to convict the phsycologists (Dr.) who oversees these interegations for assisting in the homicide. The Dr. claimes she did this to help the government and that these people need to be beaten and hurt in order to get an answer out of them. She said " without being treated this way do you think these people will tell us the next time they are going to fly a plane into our buildings?" This stuned the court and the judge called an objection, just then a man who is a jury member has a heart attack. The docter runs over and tries to help revise him, the next thing you know she is on the front page of the paper and it becomes a mistrial because she helped a jury member. This episode was a lot different then the rest because it really hit hard. At one point they had different races of people talking to the camera, telling us what the soilders did to them and how bad they were hurt. The government can not be doing this, I understand what Dr. means in that we have to get answers out of them to save our country but killing them does no good in the long run. This type of questioning needs to come to an end.

Law&Order:SVU

This week on SVU a docotor who was in Iraq was arrested. She used stress tactics to get suspected terrorists to confess. However she did do it in America when she came back which is against the law here. One of her army friends left the country because he knew what they did in Iraq torturing people. One of the supposed terrorist saw the doctor in a restoraunt and got rally scared and piked everywhere. That goes to show you how scard of her he was. Then he died because of a heart attack when he had no heart problems prior. This shows how he and other young men died from heart problems due to the doctor's stressful tactics.

Law & Order:SVU

Today I watched an episode of Law & Order:SVU that had a ton of twists in the plot. First, the show started with a little girl telling Olivia Benson that her mom was having sex with her step-brother. Next, the husband of the woman ended up dead and they found a bloody baseball bat under the bed of the son who they thought was having sex with the stepmother. To make things even more weird, the mother marries the stepson so that he doesn't have to testify against her because of spousal privilege. In the end, we find out that the women was having an affair with another man, who she framed as raping her by planting his frozen sperm on her and also convincing him to kill her husband so they could be together. In the end, the son divorces his stepmother and the stepmother is arrested for having her boyfriend kill her husband and planting evidence on herself to frame him.
To me, this episode challenges once again the cultural norm of sex between family members, even if not blood related, is wrong. This stepmother has sex with her stepson when he's only 16 and then marries him! That certainly challenges what most people would view as normal. Also, the show really capitalized on the viewers emotions by playing dramatic music when they revealed another twist in the plot and moving the camera close in to someone's face when they were being told something they didn't know before. In addition, this episode definitely showed the advantages someone with money and fame has when they are being charged with something or on trial. The stepmother was a famous actress, and she was able to get her son out of a bail of more than one million dollars and she also was able to hire a lawyer that was one of the best in New York City.

Law and Order SVU

This week I watched an episode of Law and Order SVU about a judge who was shot and also lost his step daughter after she was beaten to death. In the end I learned that the judge had actually impregnated the step daughter but covered it up by saying that him and his wife adopted the child. The judge made the step daughter's life hell by sending her to a juvenile detention center to cover up the pregnancy and while she was there, she ended up writing letters to inmates who had been put in jail by her step father. She promised them sex so that they would meet with her, and when she eventually met with one, she asked him to kill her step father. It ended up that the girl was killed by her own mother who was so upset that her daughter had been impregnated by her husband.
This episode definitely challenged the idea of American family life, since it is considered disgusting and wrong to sexually abuse a child, let alone your own child. It brings up an issue that has gotten more and more attention since the outburst of new media, which is child molestation and pedophilia. Now there are shows that talk about this all the time, shows that bait men and then arrest them once they tried to engage in any type of wrongful activity with a minor. Also, the fact that the step daughter uses her father's position as a judge to find someone he convicted to kill him seems funny, because no matter what, you always go for the man above you; the convicted men may not have been the ones to shoot the judge, but they didnt hesitate to meet with his daughter.

Law and Order SVU

In this week’s episode of Law and Order SVU a lady was almost killed. The lady was cheating on her husband who was away a lot for his job. They had a daughter with Williams disease which is a disability dealing with emotion. The husband was a suspect but it was not him who killed his wife. The only witness was the daughter. The wife was having an affair with her best friends husband. But even he was not the person who tried to kill her. It was the best friends son who tried to kill the lady because he knew that his father had got her pregnant. The only way this was all proven was through the daughter because she can tell the exact pitches of voices. She heard the voices in her mother’s bedroom, she knew it was not her father in there. But there were two guys in the room at different times, the first guy who was having the affair did not try to kill her according to the daughter. The second voice was the one who tried to kill her and the daughter recognized the voice as the son of the mother’s best friend. I think this episode was to show that the daughter could prove the case even though she had a disability.

Law & Order: SVU

This weeks episode of Law and Order: SVU was intriguing and compelling as usual. It was exciting and nerve racking as it always it. The central problem in this episode was about a woman who was beaten almost to death. Her husband was the main suspect, but the detectives were not allowed to talk to him because of the Patriot Act. He had been working with the FBI to catch biochemical terrorists. The show also focused on the daughter. She was mentally challenged in a strange way. She was super sensative and very receptive to other peoples emotions. She could hear pitch perfectly and also heard the way people speak magnified in her ears. She was the only witness to her mother's beating and the court had to decide if she was capable to testify. The father hid from the FBI and the detectives found him. Although he did not hurt his wife, he was illegally selling biochemical information to lesser companies. He did not go to jail because he testified against the man he sold the information to, in order to get immunity. Most Law and Order: SVU episodes do not get overly political, so I was suprised when they had the issue of the Patriot Act.