• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    A partial fingerprint and DNA recovered during the search have so far not yielded matches when compared against law enforcement databases, according to a law enforcement official

    This got rushed…

    Meanwhile the NYPD specifically and law enforcement in general has a massive backlog of untested rape kits they can’t even quantify because they’re spread out in hospital closets all over the place without even a comprehensive index.

    The fact that NYPD is fast tracking this is exactly why everyone hates law enforcement.

    There’s a different set of rules for the wealthy than everyone else, and a different set of punishments.

    Anytime a wealthy person is the criminal it takes years (if ever) to see a court date. If the victim is a wealthy person everything else gets thrown out the window.

        • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.social
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          17 days ago

          Or Exxon who made a ton of promises they knew they couldn’t keep, and then had the Valdez spill that decimated a whole community and then some.

          Exxon Valdez oil spill

          Exxon denial -

          “We’ve done 350 peer-reviewed studies of Prince William Sound, and those studies conclude that Prince William Sound has recovered, it’s healthy and it’s thriving.”

          From 2014 (25yrs later) -

          Federal scientists estimate that between 16,000 and 21,000 US gallons (61 to 79 m3) of oil remains on beaches in Prince William Sound and up to 450 miles (725 km) away. Some of the oil does not appear to have biodegraded at all. A USGS scientist who analyses the remaining oil along the coastline states that it remains among rocks and between tide marks. “The oil mixes with seawater and forms an emulsion…Left out, the surface crusts over but the inside still has the consistency of mayonnaise – or mousse.”

          -Source

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      17 days ago

      If the guy had raped the CEO first, do you think they’d suddenly fly through all those rape kits?

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        No, they’d skip everyone in the backlog and do the wealthy person’s…

        The difference isn’t the crime, it’s the social standing of the victim.

        Like, there’s been other murders in NYC, which would have also left this kind of evidence, they don’t check those either.

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          I guess I was thinking those rape kits might help solve that hypothetical case but I suppose not.

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            No worries, when they’re brought up a common complaint is there could very likely be a fraction of rapists as there are victims.

            Because serial rapists are a thing, and the open knowledge that cops don’t care about them unless the victim is high social standing means they’re likely to keep doing it.

            But that still doesn’t get cops to look at a backlog in those few cases to see if there’s matches. People that habitually prey on others know that if you target the rich, the cops actually try. So with a high profile victim, it’s more likely to be staged as random crime of opportunity as to really be random.

            If you look back on serial killers/rapists that were caught, it’s pretty common for them to be caught because one of their victims was from “middle class” or higher, and the vast majority of victims were from disadvantaged communities.

            So there’s a lot going on with the topic.

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            17 days ago

            In for a penny, in for a pound: maybe he’ll “slip up” and imply that he’s a serial rapist, then refuse to answer any further questions about it. Make them search the evidence.