Law and Order always covered plenty of "ripped from the headlines" topics but they didn't make them character driven political hit jobs. They were procedurally driven and Jack McCoy usually pulled a rabbit out of his hat by the end. The detectives asking the governor for an alibi is ludicrous when they already have eyewitnesses and the description doesn't fit the governor. Then they arrest the brother because he fits the description of a "young white male wearing a baseball cap". Are they serious? If they want to be really current, how about showing the DA not allowing them to arrest most people and releasing the rest ROR? The lieutenant being angry that the governor thinks New York is crime ridden and it turns out he was right is laughable. The last straw was them making the brother the killer. How did they even get a search warrant based on that vague suspect description? New York is a crime ridden cesspool these days where people are routinely pushed on to subway tracks and into the street by random strangers. Most of which are committed by people other than "young white males wearing baseball caps". This isn't "ripped from the headlines". This is ripped from a Democrat campaign ad. Liberal viewers will love this episode. Longtime Law and Order fans see it as a shadow of the quality it used to have.
Review of Battle Lines
