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View submission: The UnitedHealthcare Gunman Understands the Surveillance State
Those percentages can be different based on the socioeconomic/race status of the person who was murdered.
This guy was Uber rich and white. So I imagine they’ll be putting all the resources in finding the hero-gunman.
Comment by HopefulWoodpecker629 at 06/12/2024 at 23:17 UTC
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If the gunman killed a homeless person in the same way the cops would have said “huh, weird” and sent the case files straight to the shredder.
Comment by pablotweek at 06/12/2024 at 22:32 UTC
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Yep you can get as much justice as you can afford and NYPD's close rate of white people murders is about 83%. Black woman gets robbed and shot in a stairwell, it's too bad. This guy gets popped and suddenly they're busting out the DNA swab kits and tossing through garbage cans
Comment by Otis_Manchego at 06/12/2024 at 23:31 UTC
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Yeah, they will have the entire NYPD working on this case as well as the entire FBI and homeland security department. They have likely already spend tens of millions of dollar in the case in regular and overtime pay of all people working in this case. They will probably continue paying the entire police force to solve this indefinitely and this case will never be closed. Most cases are closed within a few months, I guarantee that if no one is arrested this case will be open for far longer than any other unsolved murder. Is there data on the number of unsolved shooting cases in NYC? I’d love to go through the data to see how much time is spent on other similar crimes.
Comment by Dandan0005 at 06/12/2024 at 23:49 UTC
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Yeah it’s not like every murder is a flip of a coin whether or not they’ll get caught.
Doing this in public, to a high profile figure in the middle of manhattan would normally make the suspect way more likely to be quickly caught.
Comment by JohnAnchovy at 07/12/2024 at 00:26 UTC
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But a stranger hit has to increase the odds of getting away dramatically. I'd put it back at 50/50.
Comment by mackiea at 07/12/2024 at 01:28 UTC
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Or, at least, someone who fits the description. The police can't simply call this unsolved if their leads dry up. Somebody, anybody, has to be arrested. Not hard to find someone with a beef against United.
Comment by snorlz at 07/12/2024 at 02:45 UTC
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i think its more cause this is international news so the entire world is watching them work
Comment by IlIllIlIllIlll at 07/12/2024 at 04:18 UTC
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I agree, however just to play devils advocate, some murders have less evidence than others. Lets say someone gets shot in a poor inner city neighborhood. If its not on camera, and it isn't reported right away, then maybe some of the DNA evidence gets lost to the weather in the hours before it is discovered. Then when investigating it, if there aren't any witnesses that will talk to you, and the neighborhood has fewer cameras, it can be even harder. Finally there are some cases where there just isn't a body to work with, or even a crime scene, so then it becomes a guessing game.
I do agree that this one is getting a ton more resources because of who it is. But it also does just have more information to work with as well.
Comment by TheFBIClonesPeople at 07/12/2024 at 05:02 UTC
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Yeah, this is one of the cases where they're actually dusting for fingerprints and testing DNA and shit.
Comment by GhostahTomChode at 07/12/2024 at 05:18 UTC
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Nah he was a pedestrian at the time.
Comment by mOjzilla at 07/12/2024 at 06:40 UTC
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You say hero-gunman assuming that what he did was for greater good. What if he was hired by victim's competition and was a paid assassin.
Do you support vigilantism or just gunning down who ever one wishes to ? Did civility vanish over night.