Here is the discussion topic for Law & Order “Inherent Bias” which aired on Thursday, April 10, 2025. Please feel free to add any feedback you have about this episode in the comments!
Here is the discussion topic for Law & Order “Inherent Bias” which aired on Thursday, April 10, 2025. Please feel free to add any feedback you have about this episode in the comments!
3 comments:
Easily my least favorite episode, this season, and probably the series. I feel like maybe this case should not have ended in a guilty verdict, there was too much reasonable doubt. Also I really don't like how they're treating Shaw in situations involving black suspects. Nolan is still the worst by the way.
This reboot just can’t get it together, can it? For every step they take forward such as this week they had an excellent defense attorney that came with a bulldozer of facts and studies to riddle the case with all sorts of reasonable doubt. Even though his one question with no foundation shouldn’t have been allowed. But everything else was just insufferable. I’m tired of the criminal sympathetic police and district attorneys in this reboot. We need a Jack McCoy type again. It doesn’t matter why you murdered. It’s wrong and against the law. You deserve to be punished.
I liked this episode in a strange way. It provided a controversy that pitted the detectives against each other and even the lawyers against each other and the detectives. But I am tiring a bit of Shaw putting everything in the frame of racial bias when it deals with a suspect or victim of color. And there was clear animosity between him and Riley that I don't think can ever be repaired. Riley was right to call Shaw on Shaw's own bias. I don't want to plame the suspect here but he caused the problem first by running, and second by throwing what he knew was evidence against himself - even though it may have been evidence of something else. Price wanted to win the case and I don't blame him for questioning Riley about Shaw and for Riley to state that Shaw went into this already wanting the guy not to be guilty. I'm sure the case will be appealed and if so, it will force the detectives to look for other suspects. What I don't undertstand is how can the facial recognition program pinpoint the suspect but not be able to show an image of what they latched onto to identify him? I didn't follow their reasoning.
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