• Commiunism@beehaw.org
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    7 hours ago

    Someone poor gets murdered: You’re lucky if they’re gonna bother checking a couple of cameras and do some interviews

    Someone rich gets murdered: Begin nationwide search for the culprit, look through every single camera in the city to see their tracks, plaster their face all over the media and offer $50,000 of tax payer money to anyone who might have any information

  • Hirom@beehaw.org
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    13 hours ago

    Medias and part of the public pay more attention to CEO’s welfare and wellbeing than random people’s wellbeing, making some crime even more high-profile.

    This put extra pressure on law enforcement to focus on some crimes at the expense of others. Police doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

    Police need to better protect average people, but this probably require both changes in police and in culture more broadly.

    • Lime Buzz@beehaw.org
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      Police shouldn’t exist exactly because of this. They cannot and do not care about the problems with society and just exist to enforce the law which doesn’t do anything to help society.

      They should be replaced with local community support instead and the good amount of saving the city or whomstever save should go to building things people actually need like third places and places folks can go to actually be safe.

  • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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    13 hours ago

    I’m pretty sure that’s a reaction to media attention. If a crime makes the headlines of big news, this somehow causes law enforcement to put extra effort in.

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      14 hours ago

      He clearly didn’t subscribe to REO meat wagon. They would’ve saved him since there was no headshot