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I would assume if you're an overworked cop in an underfunded police department, it's gonna be hard to prove a murder from what looks like a suicide. A toxicolo
by bb88 2y ago
I would assume if you're an overworked cop in an underfunded police department, it's gonna be hard to prove a murder from what looks like a suicide.
A toxicology is going to cost money and maybe not actually provide any more details. Any needle marks are likely to go unnoticed by the coroner doing the post mortem, if one is even given.
And the sad thing is, after all the investigation has happened, it's possible he killed himself. I'm sure lots of parents have thought their children would have never be capable of doing that, only to find out later that they did.
- hulitu 2y ago> I would assume if you're an overworked cop in an underfunded police department, it's gonna be hard to prove a murder from what looks like a suicide. In some countries, a doctor clarifies the cause of death.
- fakedang 2y ago* In almost all countries I don't know any developed country where a trained coroner does not do handle unnatural deaths. But apparently USA likes to do its own thing.
- spencerflem 2y agoBut when a different citizen (CEO) dies, they have the resources for a hundred detectice manhunt
- wlcmetousabuddy 2y agoWelcome to the USA buddy.
- justbecausedodo 2y agoWhy doesn't the US gov investigate and prosecute all the people on Epstein's video tapes found in his New York mansion? When you give me the answer to that you will have the answer to your question. You are asking the right questions Obi One.
- SpicyLemonZest 2y agoSan Francisco exhaustively investigates when people are murdered on the street, no matter who the victim is. They have a 94% clearance rate for homicides.
- c420 2y ago94% feels low when they are determining suicide in only 40s
- gruez 2y agoSomeone notable, unambiguously murdered in broad daylight, with ample surveillance footage to go off of, is far easier to justify spending investigative resources on than an apparent suicide maybe being a murder. As the saying goes: "when you hear hoofbeats, think horses not zebras"
- joshribakoff 2y agoYou’re just reiterating the parent commenters point, the first reason you listed was that he was “notable”. It would not be hard to find cases of unambiguous murder that go unsolved or under-investigated due to lack of notoriety.
- gruez 2y ago>You’re just reiterating the parent commenters point, the first reason you listed was that he was “notable”. The parent commenter did not mention anything about being "notable". At best he was trying to imply it by burying it in between the lines. I stated it explicitly.
- F7F7F7 2y agoIn one of the busiest square .5 miles on the planet, no less.
- hiddencost 2y agoThere was a brown kid stabbed to death in NYC the same day. No resources were expended to find his killer.
- xcrunner529 2y agoWhat about the migrant killed? NYT didn’t even report it.
- lupusreal 2y agoYeremi Colino, 17, stabbed to death in a fight between two street gangs. The police have published photos of the murderers but evidently nobody in that community wants to say anything about who they are. NYPD claims they are putting resources into catching them, but how was the CEO killer caught? Some random member of the public turned him in.
- bb88 2y agoThat's NYC. Interesting thing about NYC is that they have a lot of cops. I mean a lot. $11B spent on policing and the police to resident ratio is 1:162. Compare that with Boise, ID say where residents pay half per person as much but the police to resident ratio is 1:563.
- kindeyoowee 2y ago[flagged]
- giraffe_lady 2y agoIsn't their budget literally like a billion dollars a year?
- SideQuark 2y agoNo, it is not. And their budget is similar per citizen to most major cities [1], so implying that somehow they should spend money on every whim isn’t justified. [1] https://www.vera.org/publications/what-policing-costs-in-americas-biggest-cities https://www.vera.org/publications/what-policing-costs-in-ame...
- giraffe_lady 2y agoWell, and are they underfunded or not?
- gruez 2y agoThe point is if that billion is already earmarked for normal police activities, and they're already underfunded, they can't be expected to cough up a bunch more money for this investigation.
- giraffe_lady 2y agoBut are they underfunded?
- SideQuark 2y agoYes, they are so vastly underfunded they cannot follow all such wild fantasy chases without ignoring things for which they have evidence, which would necessarily put other things behind, and then you could rant about those things. Is this answer enough for something you could simply try to understand directly instead of repeating such simplistic and myopic beliefs?
- giraffe_lady 2y ago