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In defense of the SFPD, they gets tips on who the Zodiac killer is on a weekly basis.
by jonny_eh 4y ago
In defense of the SFPD, they gets tips on who the Zodiac killer is on a weekly basis.
- w-ll 4y ago
- pengaru 4y agonit: harebrain
- eyelidlessness 4y agoI move that this malopropism be prioritized in the great inevitable eventuality of descriptivism, partly because both forms are equally evocative, but mostly because I admire buns’ smarts.
- pengaru 4y agoThere's also a sort of precedent in the phrase "dumber than a box of hair"...
- thakoppno 4y agoi’m ashamed to admit how much that error bothered me and how relieved i am to know there are others perturbed by such minutiae.
- fsckboy 4y ago> nit: harebrain hmmm, while we're here... harebrained
- teolandon 4y agoOK, I'll stop. Do all the other people sending them tips all read HackerNews too?
- BrianHenryIE 4y ago> the San Francisco Police Department used a woman’s DNA previously obtained from a rape kit to arrest her for a property crime. https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SFPD-allegedly-used-rape-kit-for-arrest-16918819.php https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SFPD-allegedly-used-r...
- nullc 4y agohas to be fake news-- ... when was the last time SF prosecuted a property crime? :D
- jonny_eh 4y agoI don't see what that has to do with Zodiac.
- BrianHenryIE 4y agoFrom the article: > When the Zodiac killed his last victim, taxi driver Paul Stine, he left behind several bloody fingerprints (which, it should be noted, have never been linked to any of the other suspects). Although the San Francisco Police Department did not respond to numerous requests for comment for this story, it should be a simple matter for someone in the cold case division to pull Doerr’s own prints from the Military Service Records Center and do a comparison. I mentioned it to show the police in SF evidently have the resources, but their priorities are whack.
- coldtea 4y agoDoes the average such tip come with 2 books, major outlet articles, and detailed years long search on a suspect?
- giantg2 4y agoThey probably just don't care at this point. It's an old cold case and the killer is likely dead at this point. They aren't likely to use any resources on it, even if they're getting tips... unless someone political gets involved due to the high profile.
- spywaregorilla 4y agoImagine you're a detective, and your buddy says "wanna spend 5 minutes trying to solve the Zodiac killer? Looks like we just need to run a print", and you're like "Nah".
- giantg2 4y agoMaybe. But it depends on the policies of the department. I wouldn't be surprised if it's a violation to run something if it's not associated with an active case, or a case you're assigned.
- MomoXenosaga 4y agoHonestly I agree. Looking at my own country most of the cold cases that still receive attention after 20+ years involve children. If you don't have a DNA sample you're not going to solve a case from that long ago. Eye witness accounts are known to be unreliable, witnesses and detectives dead or suffering from dementia, no camera footage or other electronic trails.
- Taniwha 4y agoMaybe they could just release the prints ....