1. MUST, MUST, MUST have a car chase.
2. No need to clear the area of innocent bystanders when firing indiscriminately. Bullets are like magic and rarely strike anyone other than criminals.
3. Procedure isn’t as important as catching the bad-guy. However, try to not have your characters corrupt evidence (i.e. wear gloves, tape off crime scenes).
4. Reads eat up the good cop/bad cop routine.
5. Snitches are all important. This is true in real police work, so having snitches in a story makes it appear “authentic”.
6. No matter how outrageous the crime or motive, real police have seen even more outrageous. Just make sure the dots are connected clearly for the reader, so he/she doesn’t have to go searching back through the story when the culmination doesn’t make sense to them.
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