Would more crimes get solved if detectives all had troubled personal lives and/or a drink problem?

[Jambaliar]

TV detectives always solve the crime. On that basis, should our police do a recruitment drive amongst grizzled, middle aged, weary of life men or women, who have a troubled personal life and/or a drink problem? Who appear anti-social and dishevelled but who have brilliant analytical minds?

I think lots of them have a drink problem

Ad if they don’t have a drink problem, they usually have screwed up personal lives!

They should certainly be badly dressed if they want to solve more crime. Possibly even with a rain mac ?

This was my big takeaway from my media studies GCSE in the 90s! All police show hero/antiheroes shared one personality and had relationship issues.

Nothing has changed since 😅

I mean a lot of higher-up police officers do have broken marriages and stuff just because of the nature of the job. It’s very unforgiving of family time or commitments. When I worked for police as a civilian, the DCIs etc would sometimes be working from like 6am until midnight on an active case, for days at a time. It’s a very difficult working pattern to have with a family, and there were a lot of inter-police affairs going on, I’m guessing a combination of spending so much time together and that shared sort of ‘experience’. A lot of divorces, separations, affairs. Alcohol was also very prevalent, a lot of them were quite big drinkers.

I could give it a go I suppose?