I don't normally write commentary about TV shows, because it's not really my thing, but I've started watching the NBC series Trauma. The show kind of sucks, but I like watching the bits of San Francisco in the background and Sara likes yelling at the TV.
There are lots of things to yell about. Honestly, we've just kind of gotten used to saying "oh, yeah but it's a TV series, I guess they don't have to pay attention to reality."
The thing is, tonight's show was really bad. Way worse than the inaccuracies of the first few episodes.
In case you weren't watching, and I'm assuming you weren't since the ratings for the show have been abysmal, I'll summarize the part that we have issues with. The scene is a Chinese restaurant in China Town. A couple is having lunch, and then the restaurant explodes. After the firefighters clear the scene, they find one guy left in the restaurant, but he's already dead. There's a comment about how it's weird that he's wearing a condom, and then they hear knocking behind a door. The medics knock the door down to find a room full of scantily clad Asian women.
Following this is a street scene with the medics treating the women for smoke inhalation. The thing is, there absolutely no SFPD anywhere. I mean WTF? There would be a whole bunch of Chinese, Mandarin and Cantonese speaking SFPD and social workers there, even before the room full of sex slaves was found, and there for sure afterward. To add insult to injury, the "pimp" is allowed into the scene to frighten the women into not staying and giving testimony to the police that should have been there.
I know the SFPD doesn't get enough credit for fighting human trafficking in this city, but there's no way what happened on Trauma tonight would have been allowed to pass. This was an outrage, and NBC should apologize to the hard working people in our police force and the non profit agencies around the city that work tirelessly to fight against sex trafficking.

