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Conversely, dramas where:
- Multiple murders happen in a small town with barely any police
- Suspect is gasp the police chief’s son!
- Lots of intrigue very drama! How will we catch this killer? We are just small town cops!
Call the fucking FBI - that’s their whole thing. I get rugged individualism but it’s 2024, you’ve got phones, nearest field office is probably a few hours drive away, I’m sure they’d be happy to come help. It’s not the 1840s anymore.
NO BIG-TIME FEDS ARE GOING TO TAKE OVER A CASE IN MY TOWN! I’M THE SHERIFF HERE!
If Fargo has taught me anything it’s that the police departments of small towns in Minnesota always have at least one officer who is an absolute genius at finding serial killers.
If there’s anything true crime podcasts have taught me, it’s that police imcompetence is not constrained to small towns.
Yes. Remember: About half of all murders in the United States are never solved. Only 52.3% are, to be exact:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/194213/crime-clearance-rate-by-type-in-the-us/
The rape clearance rate is even worse: 26.1%. And If your vehicle is stolen you have less than 1 in 10 odds that whoever did it will actually be caught. Doesn’t that just make you feel all warm and fuzzy?
Sadly nobody ever wants to fund any of it… It would be nice if we could send DNA evidence to somewhere that doesn’t have a 20 month backlog for felonious convictions 5 states away.
Say you want more money for LEO Diversion programs or behind the scenes stuff all you want, nobody just wants to pay taxes cause the vast majority of everyone is too poor already with swaths of them who refuse to do the one thing they could to help, which is vote lol.
And yet. Try growing some weed or better yet, saw your rifle down to 15.95" instead of 16" and guess who suddenly has the time, manpower, and equipment to come kick in your door.
I just saw a post about someone rejected for the police force for being too smart. I often wonder if we would catch a lot more criminals if cities hired much smarter people as detectives versus promoting from within the ranks.
What is up with that? How is that not a liability/ lawsuit already?
I’ve read the story a few times over the years and it’s kinda a myth, so feel free to be skeptical.
Apparently there was a program going some 40-50 years ago. Train the best and brightest, deck them with the best equipment available and send them out there as the elite. It failed horribly leading to the highest death count the police force had seen. With what little money was left, the opposite was done afterwards. Send in the dumbest hicks around and give them free reign.
It worked brilliantly. Crime rates were down, death count for the police force was down, costs were down and the bosses were happy.
Everyone else suffered, but who gave a fuck? And so, the modern police force was born.
yes, that is a very beautiful pile of bullshit. First who was running this program what is the “police force” because that doesn’t exist in the US. there is a different police force for every county or city
Thank you.
This just made me rage at the Dexter reboot… Greatest serial killer of all time… Evades Miami police force, FBI for decades… And is taken down by some noname bumfuck cop in butthole nowhere…
Pretty much every crime documentary or series based on a true crime story, I’m just yelling at the tv cause it’s always the cops and their complete lack of giving a fuck that lets the killers continue on. Especially if the victims are sex workers or gay men. Gay man gets brutally murdered by a serial killer, cops are like “probably a gay thing”.
To be fair, being brutally murdered is a kink of mine ;)
I hate people who are “fascinated” by serial killers. They are just emotionally stunted morons who get off to violating the social contract. There is nothing special about them.
I am fascinated by what causes a person to become that way. But I agree, I once read up on Manson cause you hear so much about him. Manson was a moron and a jackass, just a complete waste of a person, an utter loser, yet people talk about him like he’s a genius. He’s honestly so ordinary and unimpressive.
I don’t think it’s unreasonable to be interested in people who act in really unusual ways that cause problems; exceptions are interesting, and threats to your survival are interesting. What bothers me is more the mystique and cool factor that gets applied to them. Interest is warranted, respect isn’t.
Yeah my issue is that it often comes packed together. I go to these serial killer documentaries and I see comments praising the serial killers intellect or something stupid. And to your point, it’s the mysticism that bothers me the most, these people are not that different than that shitty narcissist you personally know and hate, its just that they took up killing as a hobby. And here is my point, killing doesn’t make them special, most people are capable of killing and governments normalize it all the time. It’s shocking to us, sure, but for me it’s no different than the narcissist that spends time screwing over people in other ways. In my eyes it’s the same basic psychological mechanism at play.
i myself find specifically unsufferable the people who describes them as those like unstoppable force of nature like they are some apex predatores, a tough fighter.
My brother in christ, the overarching tendency of all the victims of serial killer is that they tend to be small framed women and fucking children. They always take the easiest victims in the whole area
