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It's an older book, but it still should give you a very well written perspective of how actual detectives handle crime. There are crime labs, there are forensics, there are things like Law and Order / CSI - but those shows are exaggerated, and what might take minutes in the show would take days or weeks at a real crime lab.
> is the East Coast largely like that too
Well, Chicago is around 800 miles west of the East coast. We like to call the Great Lakes region "The Third Coast" LOL. But in regards to the East Coast- I haven't been north of South Carolina, Hilton Head area... so hard to say.
I've met people from the New York City area & I've heard "mixed reviews" of NYPD. Which sounds about right for a city of around 70 precincts. I new a girl who LOVED Pittsburgh & spoke highly of the police agencies there... though she's the only person I've met from Pittsburgh so take that with a grain of salt.
> The west coast seems more militarized and amped for engagement than other parts of the nation I’ve been in
Now I ain't an expert on the history of Police in America, but if I had to point the finger at a singular person it would be Daryl Gates, former Chief of Police of the LAPD. He was highly influential in the advancement of police strategies utilizing SWAT (LAPD was first in the nation to have a military-style Tac Team) which was the brain child of a USMC veteran & LAPD officer John Nelson... and was one of the biggest purchasers of police fleet vehicles in the early days of his leadership. His general idea was that it would be fundamentally better if officers could respond to calls faster: meaning less foot patrols & more patrolling via vehicle.
To summarize, from memory mind you, what was observed by Miles Corwin who authored the book "The Killing Season"... the nature of police work changed in a rather rapid fashion on the west coast, i.e. what other cities east of The Rockies had generations to adapt to in terms of crime & police response LAPD had maybe a generation to catch up.
Sorry, I prattled.