I think we're also just experiencing the difference between the actual capabilities of police and the propaganda of post-9/11 police procedurals.
It's easy to forget that in previous generations american police were widely viewed and portrayed as incompetent and corrupt. Neither is completely true of course. Modern police are extremely well equipped and have an almost unfathomable surveillance apparatus at their disposal. But they are also incompetent and corrupt so it's kind of a wash.
While we all live under constant surveillance and are treated as a suspect for crimes past and future by our government, in the end it's looking like it wasn't the spy drones, or facial recognition AI, or the internet data collection that caught this guy, and instead it was just some random dude at a McDonald's who recognized him and called the police. Same basic tactic that's worked for ages. No fancy spy stuff needed.
I hope he gets away. If only because the resources wasted on this murder investigation are a waste of taxpayer money. After all the other 100 NYC murders every year don’t get any resources. Why should this ordinary citizen?
> As the hours have passed and the manhunt has continued to come up short, some commentators have started creating a mythology about the killer, who has stayed ahead of the NYPD and all its cameras. The victim ran a business that effectively decides which medical care its customers can and cannot get. Commentators who dislike the American health-insurance system are using Thompson’s death as an occasion to condemn the industry’s conduct, as if the assassin were a modern-day Robin Hood.
Ah, and now it's time for settling into that good old corporate media management of the Overton window. The reaction to this event definitely isn't an immediate society-wide outpouring of energy from everyone being thoroughly frustrated with the healthcare racket specifically, and the utter lack of corporate accountability in general. No, it's just a small faction of "some commentators" who "dislike the American health-insurance system" creating a "mythology" only after "the hours have passed". Everyday upstanding people all believe that it's downright shocking how a member of the corporate class that has managed to except themselves from every other form of accountability has suffered this escalated attempt at accountability. He had a family, don't you know!
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It's easy to forget that in previous generations american police were widely viewed and portrayed as incompetent and corrupt. Neither is completely true of course. Modern police are extremely well equipped and have an almost unfathomable surveillance apparatus at their disposal. But they are also incompetent and corrupt so it's kind of a wash.
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I don’t live in the US and in a perfect world I wish such event restart the conversation of how to build a less treacherous health care system.
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Ah, and now it's time for settling into that good old corporate media management of the Overton window. The reaction to this event definitely isn't an immediate society-wide outpouring of energy from everyone being thoroughly frustrated with the healthcare racket specifically, and the utter lack of corporate accountability in general. No, it's just a small faction of "some commentators" who "dislike the American health-insurance system" creating a "mythology" only after "the hours have passed". Everyday upstanding people all believe that it's downright shocking how a member of the corporate class that has managed to except themselves from every other form of accountability has suffered this escalated attempt at accountability. He had a family, don't you know!