I hate how in the show hunted the hunters speak to people so disrespectfully
Especially when the ground hunters are talking to people who may or may not have helped a fugitive. I’m watching the current series of the celeb version and they’re after telling a poor woman that she should be ashamed of herself because she helped a team. It’s not like they’re real criminals. And she didn’t even know them, she helped them out of the goodness of her heart and shared her cancer story with them. And earlier in the series another ground hunter scolded the wife of a fugitive for smiling, saying that there’s nothing funny about the situation. Honestly you would think they actually had done something.
Edit: omg can everyone stop saying it’s a fake show. They legally cannot mislead viewers and contestants, and the expectations for contestants are laid out in the application process.
Yes you are expected to taunt the hunters and move every few days otherwise it wouldn’t make good tv. I imagine they reshoot some moments if the camera didn’t catch it right, like if someone was hiding in plain sight and the camera man can’t give away the position, I definitely remember seeing chase and hiding scenes where the weather looked slightly different.
It’s no more fake than love island or the chase. It’s obvious how they replicate the powers of the state to anyone with a brain, it doesn’t need to be spelled out to you.
There is a go between man that handles all the information and decides whether to give that info to the hunters if they did the work, now since he is ex law enforcement I wouldn’t be surprised if he personally was slightly biased towards the hunters but as far as the structure of the show goes, it’s supposed to be an unbiased third party.
As for in the hunters hq, they just edit the police work terribly, if you watch the early series they always mention how it took them a few hours or days to get the information, and it’s probably the same now, apart from any improvements made to technology. But they edit it to make it look like they get the information within seconds. Probably due to pressure from actual law enforcement, if people think they can catch you that fast after committing a crime, it probably acts as a deterrent.
Plus nowadays it looks like most of their detective work comes from the fugitives social media or a known associates, so that in itself would be instantaneous.