fromJezebel
4 hours agoHow Many People Does a Man Need to Threaten to Kill Before Police Will Bother to Listen?
One of the more frustrating things one so often comes across in media reporting on violent crime are expressions that offhandedly acknowledge that the suspect was "known to police prior to the killings." Such a phrase, dropped into a piece of CNN reporting on the arrest this week of a man suspected of killing three elderly men in his community, happened to catch my attention, because it's one of those phrases that implies an entire story happening behind the story. Put simply, the police don't just "know" everyone. A person is "known," in this context, because they've already been flagged to law enforcement before, either by their own actions/prior record or because people have been reporting that they are concerned about/frightened by the individual.
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