Actually soprano, marwel raises an interesting point - because although the police etc won't be affected by a soap, the general public often are and that can have a bad affect on anyone in a similar situation...not being believed, accused of deliberately twisting things, newspaper articles, accusations of "doing a tracey" - so it may even make some people keep quiet, when they should speak out.
marwel wasn't suggesting that these were real people, but rather that the issues raised in the soap do indeed happen to real people and the soaps serve to highlight them.
if you must try to be a smart arse, try to do it with a modicum of intelligence, rather than incoherrent rambling.