A&E Network has a TV show called The First 48 which I've watched occasionally. In case you've never seen it, it's a "reality show" that brings us actual footage of police departments investigating murders and usually arresting someone for the crime. The title refers to the premise that the golden time to solve a murder is the first forty-eight hours after the killing…and the real-life cops followed by the show's cameras usually do. But as this article claims, the rush to catch the killer in that amount of time often results in arresting and jailing the wrong person — and when that happens, the producers of the program really don't care.