• 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

        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

          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.