Tonguez
A suffusion of yellow
Sounds great. But I was specifically referring to the true crime genre where the crime and the investigation are real and therefore progress along a specific path. If you exaggerate elements and give PCs freedom to explore its no longer ‘true’ crime, and probably approaching poor taste.
Have you seen GURPS Cops? its very realistic, very gritty and not something I would want to play, but it does get into the nuisances of real police investigation, arrest and criminal prosecution. It can and has been done