This is why serial killers often got away for so long. Many serial killers picked their victims very specifically based on economic and social standing. Sex workers were often ignored by ignored by everyone and their killers frequently got away with it.
Even historic serial killers like Albert Fish (a incredibly monstrous person) chose to kill poor black children because he knew that the (mostly white) police force of the time would not give two fucks about a missing poor black child.
One of the most on the nose scenes in the Wire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6r2a2PaQPI
The conversation (copied from IMDB)
Detective James ‘Jimmy’ McNulty : Guy leaves two dozen bodies scattered all over the city, no one gives a fuck.
Detective Lester Freamon : It’s because who he dropped.
Detective William ‘Bunk’ Moreland : True that. You can go a long way in this country killin’ black folk. Young males especially. Misdemeanor homicides.
Detective James ‘Jimmy’ McNulty : If Marlo was killin’ white women…
Detective Lester Freamon : White children.
Detective William ‘Bunk’ Moreland : Tourists.
Detective James ‘Jimmy’ McNulty : One white ex-cheerleader tourist missin’ in Aruba.
Detective William ‘Bunk’ Moreland : Trouble is, this ain’t Aruba, bitch.
Detective Lester Freamon : You think that if 300 white people were killed in this city every year, they wouldn’t send the 82nd Airborne? Negro, please.
That is a great phrase I missed: “Misdemeanor Homicide”.
Maybe this guy will be the first serial killer of CEOs of evil companies?
That would be a real tragedy
Fingers crossed…
Ah yes, the “Less Dead”… I’ve heard of this
Well, it’s not weird, weird. It’s more like immoral, but kind of regular.
Its sweet and innocent that thinks the cops even give a thousand dollars of time and effort to investigating crimes against the poor.
Police clocking fifty hours of overtime at $75/hr playing candy crush while they claim they’re investing a bike theft is something in willing to believe.
Thats why the worst time to have an interaction with a cop is within 30 minutes before end of shift/shift change.
Cause they make tons of false arrests to milk several extra hours of overtime slow walking paperwork and other bullshit.
Wrong, police spends quite a lot against poor and homeless people to “keep them in line”
In line and on display to motivate the near-homeless working class to keep going to their three jobs to stay afloat.
Someone has to weld spikes onto benches
They should close the investigation now before we waste more resources. Can’t they just get another CEO? Plus its not like the old CEO is just gonna wakeup and start ceo-ing … Not with all them speed holes.
The king is dead, long live the king?
It’s very likely that NYPD is going to spend a lot more on this murder than an “ordinary” one, but do you really know they only spend a few thousand on an ordinary one or did you just pull that number out of your ass? Cuz I have no idea what the murder investigation budget is.
To play the devil’s advocate, it is scientific fact that people are less deterred by gravity of punishment than certainty of punishment. if you understand the police’s job as both preventing crime and investigating crime, than crime prevention is the more important job than crime investigation, because every victim would be the happiest if they never had been a victim. So it is logical, that if a crime happened, you want to investigate and if possible, use the investigation to prevent crime. As perceived certainty is such a good deterrent of crime, you want to be perceived as highly successful with investigations and therefore punishment as highly likely.
So that brings you in the situation where an investigation has a higher value for the police when the investigation is in the news, as a success in that investigation will raise the perceived certainty of punishment more, compared to a “unknown” crime. As the value is higher, the resources spend on it can be higher too, as long as the additional funds are relative to the additional value of the investigation.
It seems immoral to spend more resources on high profile cases, as it seems to value certain lives more but arguably it raises the safety of everyone by making punishment seem more certain.
Obvious counterpoint: If you know that they are doing that, you aren’t perceiving them as successful in the average investigation and there you don’t feel like punishment is certain, or more certain.
Interesting article, but it says this $17.25 million figure includes besides police and court expenses, lost time for the victim and perp, and “estimates on the public’s resulting willingness to pay to prevent future violence.” And I don’t think they mention whether it includes incarceration costs. The detailed version still didn’t shine any light on any of that, or anything about the research team’s methodology. But that number definitely isn’t what people are talking about when they say, “Police spend $x to investigate crime A and only $y to investigate crime B.”
It’s only weird if you believe the prime function of the police is to protect everybody.
If you think the prime function of the police is to protect the rich and their assets, these action of theirs make perfects sense as do many other actions (such as prioritizing fighting crime against property over stopping violence)
Fighting crime against the property of the capitalist class. They don’t give a shit about your or my property.
I saw nothing.
Imagine being the bystander who nopes out in the video - I bet their immediate future involved a serious change of underwear.
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What do you think thr 1950s was? The giant boom following USA government subsidies of the middle class, courtesy of FDR. The 1950s had a raging lack of equality, and were in part sustained on the backs of women, but that’s another discussion. It would not have happened at all, in any format, without government subsidy.
From FDR to 1981, an American middle class was subsidized. American labor was valued. You could say it was one of our best commodities, for everyone concerned.
Then, in 1981, the format switched. The idea was, the most financially efficient way to run America was to subsidize the investors and corporate. As such, the wealth would then trickle down to all parts of society, enriching the nation as a whole with this fantastical efficiency. Subsidizing the middle class was systematically broken, overturned, and the subsidies were then given to investors and corporate.
American labor was systemically devalued.
Which brings us to present day. Biden did start to pick away it the 1981-2020 travesty, but fixing broken things takes time, and this broken thing will take more than a couple years to fix. Some teamsters got to keep their retirement, infrastructure will slowly feed us in years to come, but it’s not enough, and it’s certainly not something that even helps most of our day to days as of yet.
Well, that ended this year.
And now we have the people subsidized and grown fat from the 1981-2020 structure in charge.
What will happen next?
Will American labor regain its value? Will we subsidize a middle class instead of the upper tier of individuals, the very people running the show now, going forward? Or will we all be financially squeezed even further beyond our capacities?
We will have to wait and see.
Of course it is, just look at Elon and Vivek drooling over their possibilities. Fuck them both.
The police, in their fear of having their names on searchable and public property deeds, regularly rent at a discount from the rich.
The police don’t rent cheap places from the poor. The police rent from the rich. It is not because the rich are better people. It is because they have the wealth to give to the violent.
It seems to me that we as a people could press vocally but not violently at this collusion of economic class warfare to force change.
Press on the rich that enable police abuse under to cover of cheap or free rent and ANONYMITY
Stop the vassal state.
Where you are from police rent?
Squeaky wheels get the grease.
Yeah, and when the machine is specifically for directing murder, some of them are considered features rather than bugs.
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selfresponsibility. if u rich as fuck and ppl around u are poor as fuck you might want to pay for security yourself when a country cant even protect its weakest citizens.
I’ve been thinking that myself. At a certain level of money, you probably ought to be treated with Telvanni conventions.
