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[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 238 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Because the police protect capital above all.

If CEOs are dying there's a potential negative financial impact, whereas unhoused people dying makes their job easier.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Dying unhoused people don't effect the economy which is why no one cares .... unless we can use them as indentured servants or outright slaves, then we could care more about them.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks ago

Slavery 4 Change

[–] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This. If you look very closely at police cars that say “Protect and Serve”, you’ll notice the fine print after that says “the wealthy”.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Barricade just looked around at US society and put the slogan on himself that made sense as a cop car. "To Enslave and Punish."

I'm starting to think the autobots weren't the "good guys." At least in Micheal Bay's Transformers.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure this is the only way for Reaganomics to actually work.

As wealthy people die, the wealth gets spread out and taxed (a little), so more people have access to spend it. Now we just need them to be more like musk and spawn a horde of children to increase this effectiveness.

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 230 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Remember about a year and a half ago when no expense or resource was spared to try to rescue a billionaire with a deathwish from the bottom of the Atlantic while AT THE VERY SAME TIME over 500 refugees that could have been saved, who were still at the surface, were left to drown off the coast of Greece.

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/titanic-submarine-billionaires-get-massive-global-rescue-effort-refugees-left-to-drown/

The ship had been in distress almost two days before it sank, but help didn’t come until it was too late. How many might have been rescued with one-tenth the resources that were rushed to save the five billionaires and millionaires on the Titan?

This isnt a healthcare problem. This is a global crony market capitalist problem.

This is a class ~~warfare~~ occupation problem.

Fuck valuing human life on the basis of ego score.

[–] A7thStone@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

All capitalism is crony capitalism

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

I'd argue the allowance of passive shareholders is what causes the biggest problems. Shares of profits should go to active employees only, unless they've fulfilled the requirements of a pension, not entities that intend to collect capital while contributing no labor towards the products/services generating the profit.

Passive income should only be hard earned. The only passive income that should be legal should be after 20+ of laboring/supporting the means by which those profits were generated, so it cannot be gamed.

Not some random asshole leeches who don't want to work showing up with chips from their last trip to the exploitation, insider info casino, demanding any, let alone all profit. People have to earn a living, it's perfectly reasonable to DEMAND skin in the game in order to make money.

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[–] nonailsleft@lemm.ee 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Doubt the US Coastguard is going to sail over to Greece though

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago

Lazy bastards

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[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 96 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

This is why serial killers often got away for so long. Many serial killers picked their victims very specifically based on economic and social standing. Sex workers were often ignored by ignored by everyone and their killers frequently got away with it.

Even historic serial killers like Albert Fish (a incredibly monstrous person) chose to kill poor black children because he knew that the (mostly white) police force of the time would not give two fucks about a missing poor black child.

[–] Charapaso@lemmy.world 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

One of the most on the nose scenes in the Wire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6r2a2PaQPI

The conversation (copied from IMDB)

Detective James 'Jimmy' McNulty : Guy leaves two dozen bodies scattered all over the city, no one gives a fuck.

Detective Lester Freamon : It's because who he dropped.

Detective William 'Bunk' Moreland : True that. You can go a long way in this country killin' black folk. Young males especially. Misdemeanor homicides.

Detective James 'Jimmy' McNulty : If Marlo was killin' white women...

Detective Lester Freamon : White children.

Detective William 'Bunk' Moreland : Tourists.

Detective James 'Jimmy' McNulty : One white ex-cheerleader tourist missin' in Aruba.

Detective William 'Bunk' Moreland : Trouble is, this ain't Aruba, bitch.

Detective Lester Freamon : You think that if 300 white people were killed in this city every year, they wouldn't send the 82nd Airborne? Negro, please.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 8 points 2 weeks ago

That is a great phrase I missed: "Misdemeanor Homicide".

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Maybe this guy will be the first serial killer of CEOs of evil companies?

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[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I guess someone finally got tired of the guillotine jokes and actually did it.

[–] PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 79 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They probably got tired of seeing their family die from treatable diseases.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago

That could be correct, but potentially it could be more personal.

Maybe the shooter themselves had an illness or condition that was expensive to maintain, or treatment was rejected. If they had nothing to live for or weren’t super-concerned with getting caught, that could be an explanation.

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 weeks ago

You guys have been joking?

[–] MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Murica gonna Murica, what else can I say?

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 47 points 2 weeks ago

Like it’s unique to America lol

See sinking of Bayesian yacht recently in Italy for example

[–] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 weeks ago

Don't kid yourself in to thinking the same thing doesn't apply wherever it is you are in the world.

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 48 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Wrong, police spends quite a lot against poor and homeless people to "keep them in line"

[–] Iconoclast@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 weeks ago

In line and on display to motivate the near-homeless working class to keep going to their three jobs to stay afloat.

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 46 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's only weird if you believe the prime function of the police is to protect everybody.

If you think the prime function of the police is to protect the rich and their assets, these action of theirs make perfects sense as do many other actions (such as prioritizing fighting crime against property over stopping violence)

[–] A7thStone@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

Fighting crime against the property of the capitalist class. They don't give a shit about your or my property.

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 45 points 2 weeks ago

Well, it's not weird, weird. It's more like immoral, but kind of regular.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 35 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It's very likely that NYPD is going to spend a lot more on this murder than an "ordinary" one, but do you really know they only spend a few thousand on an ordinary one or did you just pull that number out of your ass? Cuz I have no idea what the murder investigation budget is.

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 weeks ago

To play the devil's advocate, it is scientific fact that people are less deterred by gravity of punishment than certainty of punishment. if you understand the police's job as both preventing crime and investigating crime, than crime prevention is the more important job than crime investigation, because every victim would be the happiest if they never had been a victim. So it is logical, that if a crime happened, you want to investigate and if possible, use the investigation to prevent crime. As perceived certainty is such a good deterrent of crime, you want to be perceived as highly successful with investigations and therefore punishment as highly likely.

So that brings you in the situation where an investigation has a higher value for the police when the investigation is in the news, as a success in that investigation will raise the perceived certainty of punishment more, compared to a "unknown" crime. As the value is higher, the resources spend on it can be higher too, as long as the additional funds are relative to the additional value of the investigation.

It seems immoral to spend more resources on high profile cases, as it seems to value certain lives more but arguably it raises the safety of everyone by making punishment seem more certain.

Obvious counterpoint: If you know that they are doing that, you aren't perceiving them as successful in the average investigation and there you don't feel like punishment is certain, or more certain.

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[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

RTO? How about DTO (Death To Oligarchs)?

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[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Imagine being the bystander who nopes out in the video - I bet their immediate future involved a serious change of underwear.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They should close the investigation now before we waste more resources. Can't they just get another CEO? Plus its not like the old CEO is just gonna wakeup and start ceo-ing .... Not with all them speed holes.

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[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Its sweet and innocent that thinks the cops even give a thousand dollars of time and effort to investigating crimes against the poor.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Police clocking fifty hours of overtime at $75/hr playing candy crush while they claim they're investing a bike theft is something in willing to believe.

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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 weeks ago

Don't you understand how serious it is to have any threats to oligarchy???? Even if 300m people would accept an offer to replace him in his job, and provide just as effective claims denials, a homeless person...

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

🍽🍽🍽🍽🍽🍽🍽

[–] testfactor@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Have I missed something? I feel like the NYPD is investigating this the same way they do every murder.

Sure, the media is covering it like crazy, but I haven't seen anything to indicate that the NYPD is doing anything different than their norm. And the NYPD can't exactly control what the news covers.

At worst they've been told, "hey, there's a lot of scrutiny on this one, so give it a little extra attention," but that's not "millions of dollars" they they otherwise wouldn't have spent.

[–] OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world 61 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

They don't have press conferences, raise the bridges to stop traffic out of the city, put out (this many) ground units to question and collect evidence for every murder in New York. Not by a long shot. The location of the murder and identity of the victim are playing a big factor in this. Because coverage happened, they're responding. If there were 270 news articles written about Non-Descript-Murdered-Citizen #6hey might give it the same attention.

There were 808 murders in New York in 2020. Did you see this response from those deaths, do you recall?

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