What are some good crime shows?

[Rev. Rye]

Here's one idea for a show I've been thinking about; calling it America's Least Wanted, and have it be about re-enactments of crimes where either the criminals were dumb (, the cops were extremely stupid, or the crimes were just plain weird.

I've actually covered a few stories like this for my weird British Crime column.

Dumb Criminals:

• Criminals try to pass off blocks of ice as iPads.
  
• Blind man leads police on 85 mph car chase.
  
• Drunken revelers confuse policewoman for a stripper.
  
• Man breaks out of Lancashire jail because there's too many Lancastrians and Liverpudlians there.
  
• Hyperactive Wild West fan threatens electrician with toy gun.
  
• Convicted burglar sulks about pictures of him being taken, blocks his mother for objecting.
  
• Man steals fishtank, returns to the scene of the crime minutes later to buy fish for it.
  
• Man with a plastic bag on his head robs a convenience store with a cell phone.
  

Dumb Cops:

• Man found guilty, but let go because the jails are too full, and the bus to the prison doesn't run on Thursdays.
  
• 16-year-old not allowed to buy spoons due to the law.
  
• Police mistake a remote control in a person's home for a deadly weapon.
  
  

Weird Crime:

• Two criminals break into a bakery in the middle of the night for some quiche, and start a five-hour standoff.
  
• A riot breaks out when a 99p store cancels their half-price sale.
  
• A singalong of "Ding-Dong The Witch is Dead" leads to domestic violence.
  
• Man stabs his son over a bacon sandwich.
  
• Cross-dressing conmen fleece seniors of their savings.
  
• Cat burglar goes on panty raid... specifically, a tabby burglar.
  
• Swans commit hate crimes against university students.
  
• Mugging foiled by a parrot.
  

All these really happened in Britain since June of last year. And there's more I have yet to cover.