Who is a Detective

Two examples of current detectives are professional sports referees and talent scouts for various sports teams. Referees are like detectives because they must make decisions based on evidence they have in front of them. However, a referee’s decision is not quite as important as a detective’s decision which may be determining if a man goes to prison or not. A scout is like a detective because they both must go and find evidence. A scout must find evidence of a talented person and a detective must find evidence to support an investigation.

Detectives are popular because they are trying to solve a mystery. People like to read, watch, or hear about a detective solving such a mystery and try to pin point what happened before the detective does. Also, people want to see justice and most detective stories end in the detective catching the “bad guy”.