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    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?

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    “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?”

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    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?

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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        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.

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        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.

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        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.

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        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.

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          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.

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            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

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            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.

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              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.

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

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              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.

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                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.

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                  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.

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        If you’re not rich you have to worry about them killing you and/or everybody else at the location.

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        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.

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          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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    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!)