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Police arrested Ted Bundy. Do you think serial killers operating with impunity are beneficial for society?

• ncmncm 5y ago
  How hard was it to get them to arrest Ted Bundy, or even to acknowledge that there was anything to arrest him for? How long did they stall first?
  • oh_sigh 5y ago
    Is your argument that delaying the arrest of a serial killer is worse for society than not arresting him at all? Bundy was arrested in 1975 but released due to lack of evidence. Does that mean the police didn't want to arrest him, or does that mean the police officers were following the law, and couldn't just lock him up on their hunch? Look up the Aspen summit, where dozens of officers and prosecutors came together to share information, discuss his case, and they agreed that Bundy was the man they were looking for, but needed more hard evidence to arrest and convict him. That certainly looks like the behavior of officers who want to arrest him, and not stalling behavior.
• pvaldes 5y ago
  Is not always so simple as "more police = less serial killers". There are also a few notorious cases of serial killers that were also cops. This in 2021 for example https://nypost.com/2021/09/30/french-cops-suicide-note-confesses-he-was-serial-child-killer-rapist/ https://nypost.com/2021/09/30/french-cops-suicide-note-confe... Or this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Poehlke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Poehlke
• greedo 5y ago
  It's also bad when the cops are killers themselves... https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/crime/chp-officer-murder-san-diego-state-student-prison-craig-peyer-cara-knott/509-e9c41aa4-afb5-441a-adeb-7f10dabb99ce https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/crime/chp-officer-murder-s...