History Series / Longmire

* {{Irony}}: The Bureau of Indian Affairs Police (I.e. the Res Police) appears much better funded and resourced than the Absaroka County Sheriff's office, but in practice they are much worse due to solving crimes, not due to the incompetence of Mathias or their officers, but because of Byzantine requirements placed on them by federal law: they cannot investigate or prosecute felonies; only the federal government can, and often choose not to. They cannot prosecute crimes committed by white men against Native American women until a change to the Violence Against Women Act more than halfway through the series, and finally, many of their members and especially their chief, Malachi Strand, are corrupt, only investigating crimes when paid to do so, and even, Malachi may just take a victim's money and then take money from the perpetrators not to investigate anyway.

* Irony: The Bureau of Indian Affairs Police (I.e. the Res Police) appears much better funded and resourced than the Absaroka County Sheriff's office, but in practice they are much worse due to solving crimes, not due to the incompetence of Mathias or their officers, but because of Byzantine requirements placed on them by federal law: they cannot investigate or prosecute felonies; only the federal government can, and often choose not to. They cannot prosecute crimes committed by white men against Native American women until a change to the Violence Against Women Act more than halfway through the series, and finally, many of their members and especially their chief, Malachi Strand, are corrupt, only investigating crimes when paid to do so, and even, Malachi may just take a victim's money and then take money from the perpetrators not to investigate anyway.

* FakingTheDead: Branch is convinced that [[spoiler:David Ridges]] did this before shooting him. [[spoiler:Season 3 episode "Harvest" reveals that this is true.]]

** In 3.2 "Of Children and Travelers" has Walt and Vic take a drive down to Arizona over the course of a single day. It was well after sunrise when they left, and they still managed to get there before nightfall. No overnight is implied to occur during the trip. Even if they only drove to the Arizona border, that is about a ten hour drive one way. (It would be a much shorter drive from the show's production home in new Mexico.) They do end up staying the night in Arizona, but mention they're going to go back to talk to the victim of the week's parents "first thing in the morning", meaning they expect to stay the night in Arizona and make it back to Wyoming in time to talk to the victim's parent's that early. Even if they drove from border to border, that's nearly 8 hours that would involve crossing Utah or Colorado. The writers seem to have no idea of the sheer scale of the American West.

** Walt Longmire speaks German, quotes UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill, and is a fan of the Franchise/SherlockHolmes stories. HandWaved simply with "I read."