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[-] lukes26@lemm.ee 126 points 1 week ago

With Mangione's action having the "capability to inspire a variety of extremists and grievance-driven malicious actors to violence," the NYPD encouraged companies to increase precautions and security for executives.

Isn't this straight up saying that Mangione is the assassin? Obviously innocent until proven guilty has always been bullshit, but where's the bare minimum "alleged" at?

[-] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago

Psh, those low quality NYPD shitrags never gave a fuck about integrity. The uniform is just a costume.

[-] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago

The whole idea of parading suspects in front of the media is a mockery of the principle.

Fuck the NYPD.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

That does seem rather reckless of ABC News.

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago

I tried looking through how to email them to request a correction but it looks like you have to download their app just to contact them.

[-] HeroHelck@lemm.ee 93 points 1 week ago

Extremely gross that they're putting this much effort into protecting only the rich, But completely unsurprising. I don't understand why SO MANY Americans are just completely accepting of this obvious favoritism.

[-] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 week ago

Police have only ever protected the rich. That was why they were created. Check out all the union-busting they were involved in on behalf of Henry Ford, among others. The Dollop has a few good episodes on the topic.

[-] Free_Opinions@feddit.uk 5 points 1 week ago

Only the rich? Do police not come when you call 911?

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 69 points 1 week ago

If you were killed in the same manner as Thompson, your killer would never be found.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Regular old people get murdered all the time. Sometimes in targeted assassinations. The killers get caught all the time.

The cops spend nowhere near this amount of resources, obviously, but saying the killer would never be found is nonsense.

Prisons are not filled with murderers who have only been convicted of murdering the wealthy.

[-] Phishr42@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/crime-without-punishment-new-york/

Seems like it's pretty much a coin flip. Also (to no one's surprise) you get a much better chance of them catching your murderer if you're white.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Now of that I have no doubt. I was just saying the idea that only rich people's murders get solved is just not true. But apparently I misunderstood what the person I was replying to was saying.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago

I think the amount of resources expended is absolutely valid criticism. There are active kidnappings that have less mobilization than this fucking circus - there are times people are still alive and end up dead because cops couldn't give a fucking damn... especially if we open the can of domestic abuse.

[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago

There's also a non zero chance the police kill a 911-caller/victim/hostage/bystander.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I agree. It is completely valid. I thought My post suggested it.

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's still part of the problem with the justice system and prisons generally aren't filled with murderers.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Are you saying there aren't a lot of murderers in prisons?

And people really think murderers only get caught if they only murder rich people?

Because otherwise I don't understand the downvotes. I can provide so many examples of poor people getting murdered and the murderer going to prison. Is there really a claim that doesn't happen?

Again, the cops spend nowhere near the amount of resources on such murders, but that doesn't mean that they all go unsolved.

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Are you saying there aren't a lot of murderers in prisons?

Definitely not. Simply that prisons generally aren't filled with a majority of murderers.

people really think murderers only get caught if they only murder rich people?

You're getting downvoted because this a bizarre extrapolation from my original comment. A ghost gun with a silencer, very little unintentional evidence, and a clean getaway is a hell of a case to crack. They barely managed it even with all the resources they used, and I have my doubts that Luigi is just a scapegoat. If you or I were killed like this, our murderer would not be caught.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

It wouldn't have hurt if someone had explained that to me earlier rather.

But then this is the internet and courtesy is generally considered a bad thing in my experience.

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Then I apologize for assuming you had the full context before engaging the way I did. You deserved to get a chance to understand before you got dog piled.

this is the internet and courtesy is generally considered a bad thing

I want to be the change with this perspective, so I hope that only the downvotes were the outcome of this misunderstanding!

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Thank you. I am glad you agree with me on courtesy. I hope more people do.

[-] Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago

NYPD barely bats above 50% for murder arrests in a ‘good’ period - not convictions. 33% is abysmal given their absurd budget and frankly unconstitutional practices like stop and frisk.

Within the U.S. criminal justice system, criminal cases can be cleared (or closed) one of two ways. The first is through arrest… The second way a case can be closed is through what is called exceptional means, where law enforcement must have either identified the offender, gathered enough evidence to arrest, charge, and prosecute someone, identified the offender’s exact location, or come up against a circumstance outside the control of law enforcement that keeps them from arresting and prosecuting the offender

[-] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 week ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Which statement did I make that was wild? Because none of that contradicts anything I said.

I never made the claim that all or even most murders get solved.

[-] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 week ago

Regular old people get murdered all the time. Sometimes in targeted assassinations. The killers get caught all the time.

This you?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

"All the time" and "every time" are not even close to the same thing.

So again, your link doesn't contradict what I said.

There are constant murder trials. Do you deny that fact?

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

You're correct and I think your original statement was pretty fair - but "All the time" and other soft indications like that - serve poorly when we're discussing something as serious as murder. Most murders go unsolved and while a very significant number of murders are resolved if you happen to be talking to someone who has intimate knowledge of a family member or friend being murdered "all the time" is likely to come across as cavalier.

Our language gets weird around strongly emotional events (you'll get a similar response if, at a friends' wedding you comment "You know, most marriages end in divorce" even if it's objectively the truth).

So written by a person with a little bit of ASD and has similarly put their foot in their mouth in the past.

[-] HeroHelck@lemm.ee 40 points 1 week ago

Genuinely? I've reported multiple thefts over the years, never had any of it returned. Had to get a bike that was stolen from me (with my full name engraved) back by literally stealing it back from the person I knew stole it in the first place.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 week ago

No, they fucking don't. When I came home to a burgler actively in my fucking apartment I called 911 and the police didn't show up for four fucking hours.

The US has absolutely awful police forces with terrible incentives.

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 21 points 1 week ago

Oftentimes no. The last couple of times I called nobody showed up. Granted, the last time I was actively trying to avoid them coming because it was a mental health issue (a naked homeless dude spouting nonsense) but there was still never any follow up. The previous time my wife was cornered in her office at work but some random guy who exposed himself to her. The police never sent anyone or even called back.

[-] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Are you not American or just completely oblivious to the current US police problem?

[-] astanix@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

That heavily depends on your location.

[-] FringeTheory999@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Once I called them because two guys were beating up a homeless guy. they never showed. They called three hours later and asked if I still needed them to drop by. Their stated policy says that they will show up within 15 minutes if people are in danger. I guess homeless people aren’t people.

[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I mean, they do, sometimes, if there is an immediate danger or ongoing crime.

... And they might just barge into the wrong apartment and shoot your neighbor to death.

Or shoot you or your dog to death.

Sometimes they all show up and form a perimeter around an ongoing crime scene and then proceed to let the criminal go around murdering children for an hour, despite massively out numbering and out gunning him, and then spend weeks and months lying about doing exactly that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uvalde_school_shooting

Oh you had a break in and your stuff was stolen?

Oh you got mugged and the guy ran away?

Oh your car was stolen?

I mean... sure, the police will show up and write a report...

Investigate anything? Recover your stolen stuff?

Pff, nah.

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 84 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"UnitedHealthcare killed everyday people for the sake of profit. As a result Brian Thompson was denied his claim to life. Who will be denied next?"

[-] UntitledQuitting@reddthat.com 59 points 1 week ago

seems like we're all out of bread and circuses

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Breadflation

[-] Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 58 points 1 week ago

You guys in the USA are starting to sound like France 1789

Far from it. France deposed their tyant, USA installed a tyrant.

We basically need to depose [Name Redacted] just like France did in 1789

[-] PyroNeurosis 14 points 1 week ago

Lets be real, France didn't have a great track record of picking winning leaders.

So in our store-brand French revolution, we're probably gonna go through quite a few Robespierres.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I keep pointing out that it took 15 years from France getting rid of a king to giving the exact same powers to an emperor.

People seem to think the guillotines came out and everyone's problems were solved. Just like they seem to think if a few CEOs get assassinated, corporations will put people over profits.

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[-] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Who's gonna be our crazy guy in a bathtub demanding the execution of scores of enemies?

[-] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 38 points 1 week ago

US Wealth disparity is already worse than 1789 France, here.

[-] hemmes@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago

Whelp, looks like the whole private healthcare business is just too much for corporations to deal with properly. Maybe the government should step in and take care of it from now on?

[-] beansbeansbeans@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago

Perhaps they should all reflect on why these lists are popping up.

[-] ramsorge@discuss.online 35 points 1 week ago

Protecting the ruling class

"Delay, Deny, Depose" is the new "Fuck Around, Find Out"

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

You know what'd be more dangerous would be to spread 3D printing info and other useful tips we as a society may have learned from this whole manhunt info dump. Just saying, of course (I don't even own a 3d printer, officer!)

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