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
Must have had the Trauma Team platinum package
He clearly didn’t subscribe to REO meat wagon. They would’ve saved him since there was no headshot
Meanwhile, prolific serial killers operating in black neighbourhoods without the cops even noticing, let alone investigating anything.
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.
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.
Even with the national media coverage, the amount of resources thrown at this case massively dwarfs what they have done for poorer victims.
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.
But that’s why it got the media attention.
I’m sorry, but this is nonsense. They didn’t just let Penny go, did they? He had to stand trial like anyone else.
Sincere question, do you honestly believe the police devote the same resources to catching a killer when a peasant is murdered vs what they did for CEO Brian Thompson?
As far I understand it, Penny turned himself in so I suppose he saved them a lot of time and effort, but they still spent all the money required to bring him to trial, right? State attorneys and judges cost money, too. If they were blatantly racist they could have just let him go with no charges, would have saved them a lot of dough.
