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DanielHB 2y ago
You are not 100% wrong, but I think it is the media that makes the cops put extra resources on certain cases. Now the media did bring it to international attention partially because he was rich and had some power. But the main thing really was because he worked on healthcare which everyone is pissed off about in the US.
Spooky23 2y ago
Eh. Midtown murders are pretty rare. They get solved. Would they have burned millions in overtime? No.
brickfaced 2y ago
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- oneeyedpigeon 2y ago
  Not only white, but rich too!
Cumpiler69 2y ago
>if you are white Huh, what does this have to do with it? Of course, discriminatory comments like these that segregate people on race are never flagged on HN as long as it's against "the usual suspects".
naming_the_user 2y ago
I don’t know why people bring this up as if it’s some sort of revelation. That’s literally what status is. People care more because you are actually a more meaningful individual in a real sense. The gunman is hardly a nobody either. There might be an issue if murders in general were going uninvestigated. Realistically it’s more that you just don’t see it happen.
- TheFreim 2y ago
  Speaking entirely separately from the CEO assassination case, people often have a flawed comic book villain vision of wealthy people as being universally or unambiguously evil but that's just not the case. Wealthy people are often involved in their communities and actually want them to improve. I can think of a few people where I live who are very wealthy and also very generous, and as a result have touched the hearts of many more people in the community.
TheFreim 2y ago
Targeted assassinations should get more attention and resources. The ramifications of allowing an assassin to go free are much worse than a random killing. There is a small subset of the population that is both smart enough and crazy enough to successfully plan an assassination, that group of people needs to know that they won't have a chance of escaping and that they'll be hunted down. Think of it this way: do you want your political enemies to start thinking, "Hey, I bet I could get away with assassinating that activist/politician"? Personally, my disdain of the American Healthcare complex is overruled by my opposition to normalizing political assassinations.
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Hilift 2y ago
NYPD has abundant resources with $11 billion budget/36,000 sworn officers and has a high murder clearance compared to other large urban cities in the US. 2023 346/257 cleared (74%). LA was 683/395 (58%). This guy wanted to be caught and didn't make much of an effort.
shadowbanned-00 2y ago
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You are not 100% wrong, but I think it is the media that makes the cops put extra resources on certain cases. Now the media did bring it to international attention partially because he was rich and had some power. But the main thing really was because he worked on healthcare which everyone is pissed off about in the US.

Spooky23 2y ago

Eh. Midtown murders are pretty rare. They get solved. Would they have burned millions in overtime? No.

brickfaced 2y ago

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oneeyedpigeon 2y ago
Not only white, but rich too!

Cumpiler69 2y ago

>if you are white Huh, what does this have to do with it? Of course, discriminatory comments like these that segregate people on race are never flagged on HN as long as it's against "the usual suspects".

naming_the_user 2y ago

I don’t know why people bring this up as if it’s some sort of revelation. That’s literally what status is. People care more because you are actually a more meaningful individual in a real sense. The gunman is hardly a nobody either. There might be an issue if murders in general were going uninvestigated. Realistically it’s more that you just don’t see it happen.

TheFreim 2y ago
Speaking entirely separately from the CEO assassination case, people often have a flawed comic book villain vision of wealthy people as being universally or unambiguously evil but that's just not the case. Wealthy people are often involved in their communities and actually want them to improve. I can think of a few people where I live who are very wealthy and also very generous, and as a result have touched the hearts of many more people in the community.

TheFreim 2y ago

Targeted assassinations should get more attention and resources. The ramifications of allowing an assassin to go free are much worse than a random killing. There is a small subset of the population that is both smart enough and crazy enough to successfully plan an assassination, that group of people needs to know that they won't have a chance of escaping and that they'll be hunted down. Think of it this way: do you want your political enemies to start thinking, "Hey, I bet I could get away with assassinating that activist/politician"? Personally, my disdain of the American Healthcare complex is overruled by my opposition to normalizing political assassinations.

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Hilift 2y ago

NYPD has abundant resources with $11 billion budget/36,000 sworn officers and has a high murder clearance compared to other large urban cities in the US. 2023 346/257 cleared (74%). LA was 683/395 (58%). This guy wanted to be caught and didn't make much of an effort.

shadowbanned-00 2y ago

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