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”.
Ah yes, the “Less Dead”… I’ve heard of this
Maybe this guy will be the first serial killer of CEOs of evil companies?
Fingers crossed…
That would be a real tragedy
Squeaky wheels get the grease.
Well we could ask the same question when Notre dame de Paris burned, how many millions went to rebuild it?
I respect the arts and the building is an important part of French history which is important.
I would however say that it is interesting that we cannot raise money for charities but if an art building burn oh well… Let the millions pour in…
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.
RTO? How about DTO (Death To Oligarchs)?
Sounds french
Now the French really know how to do civil upset
Maybe it’s a good reason to reduce public spending in general. People act like public spending is a way to even things out, but in practice as the post evidences, the more we tax and the more the government spends the more wealth has actually been concentrated.
It surely matters how that money is spent. So a better solution would be to redirect some of the police funding to social programs.
Don’t worry, nuance and complexity are things you start to pick up as you get into your 20s :)
People fall into the trap of thinking of things in broad terms like “taxes good/bad” or “regulations good/bad”. There are benefits and drawbacks for each individual tax/regulation/policy/etc. What is clear is that the government tends to work for the benefit of the rich, which is a natural consequence of the influence of money in politics, and we certainly need to do something about that, but the system will be heavily resistant to such efforts.
I guess someone finally got tired of the guillotine jokes and actually did it.
They probably got tired of seeing their family die from treatable diseases.
That could be correct, but potentially it could be more personal.
Maybe the shooter themselves had an illness or condition that was expensive to maintain, or treatment was rejected. If they had nothing to live for or weren’t super-concerned with getting caught, that could be an explanation.
You guys have been joking?
Have I missed something? I feel like the NYPD is investigating this the same way they do every murder.
Sure, the media is covering it like crazy, but I haven’t seen anything to indicate that the NYPD is doing anything different than their norm. And the NYPD can’t exactly control what the news covers.
At worst they’ve been told, “hey, there’s a lot of scrutiny on this one, so give it a little extra attention,” but that’s not “millions of dollars” they they otherwise wouldn’t have spent.
They don’t have press conferences, raise the bridges to stop traffic out of the city, put out (this many) ground units to question and collect evidence for every murder in New York. Not by a long shot. The location of the murder and identity of the victim are playing a big factor in this. Because coverage happened, they’re responding. If there were 270 news articles written about Non-Descript-Murdered-Citizen #6hey might give it the same attention.
There were 808 murders in New York in 2020. Did you see this response from those deaths, do you recall?
I mean, yes you’re correct on all points, but 2020 is a really bad year to pick. They kinda had people dropping dead all over the city to the point of mass graves. Pretty sure that might have stretched the emergency services just a teensy bit.
According to This, there were 29 murders in New York in October of this year. How many of those got the same treatment?
Have I missed something?
Nah. Just a bunch of terminally online living out their cyberpunk fantasy.
cyberpunk?
They don’t typically immediately deploy helicopters, drones, and dogs when someone gets shot.
Have I missed something?
Yes, reality.
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.
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Of course it is, just look at Elon and Vivek drooling over their possibilities. Fuck them both.
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?
I saw nothing.
Imagine being the bystander who nopes out in the video - I bet their immediate future involved a serious change of underwear.
Because the police protect capital above all.
If CEOs are dying there’s a potential negative financial impact, whereas unhoused people dying makes their job easier.
Dying unhoused people don’t effect the economy which is why no one cares … unless we can use them as indentured servants or outright slaves, then we could care more about them.
Slavery 4 Change
This. If you look very closely at police cars that say “Protect and Serve”, you’ll notice the fine print after that says “the wealthy”.
Barricade just looked around at US society and put the slogan on himself that made sense as a cop car. “To Enslave and Punish.”
I’m starting to think the autobots weren’t the “good guys.” At least in Micheal Bay’s Transformers.
Holup. I am certain this is going to be very good for the finances of everyone, including police.
I’m pretty sure this is the only way for Reaganomics to actually work.
As wealthy people die, the wealth gets spread out and taxed (a little), so more people have access to spend it. Now we just need them to be more like musk and spawn a horde of children to increase this effectiveness.
trickle down is when i piss on thatcher’s grave
So while I am sure the expense per person is more. Expense for rich murders vs poor murders is probably the opposite simply because of the difference in quantity.
I think the point is that “rich vs poor” should not be a distinction that matters when considering what resources to expend on the investigation.
If you start from that premise, there’s really no reason to compare what is spent collectively on the murder of wealthy people to what is spent collectively on the murder of poor people.
The comparison itself assumes as given that there is some reason to divide the victims in that way.
