• HeroHelck@lemm.ee
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    29 days ago

    Extremely gross that they’re putting this much effort into protecting only the rich, But completely unsurprising. I don’t understand why SO MANY Americans are just completely accepting of this obvious favoritism.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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          29 days ago

          Regular old people get murdered all the time. Sometimes in targeted assassinations. The killers get caught all the time.

          The cops spend nowhere near this amount of resources, obviously, but saying the killer would never be found is nonsense.

          Prisons are not filled with murderers who have only been convicted of murdering the wealthy.

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              29 days ago

              Which statement did I make that was wild? Because none of that contradicts anything I said.

              I never made the claim that all or even most murders get solved.

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            29 days ago

            NYPD barely bats above 50% for murder arrests in a ‘good’ period - not convictions. 33% is abysmal given their absurd budget and frankly unconstitutional practices like stop and frisk.

            Within the U.S. criminal justice system, criminal cases can be cleared (or closed) one of two ways. The first is through arrest… The second way a case can be closed is through what is called exceptional means, where law enforcement must have either identified the offender, gathered enough evidence to arrest, charge, and prosecute someone, identified the offender’s exact location, or come up against a circumstance outside the control of law enforcement that keeps them from arresting and prosecuting the offender

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        29 days ago

        No, they fucking don’t. When I came home to a burgler actively in my fucking apartment I called 911 and the police didn’t show up for four fucking hours.

        The US has absolutely awful police forces with terrible incentives.