Best of luck with getting cooperation from citizens at large.
All 337,522,185 of us didn’t see nothin’.
…but the cameras and AI did :(
I’m not too fussed about the AI, to be honest. It’ll just declare that it has 14,986 suspects who “definitely” did it, most of whom will just coincidentally turn out to be black.
The odds of them being able to definitively tie a face to a name in a single stroke are pretty remote. The investigation strategy will probably revolve around tracking down where he went and how he got there. If he rode a bus, they will investigate who was on that bus. Same if he took a plane. Or if he hired an Uber, or whatever. Whose credit cards were used to purchase tickets, whose cell phones were tracked in those locations at those times, etc. Wasn’t he on a rental bike? They will try to track payment methods for those rental bikes. Etc.
Even with all their manpower and spy technologies and cell phone spoofing towers and dogs and any amount of shiny badges, the cops can’t clear a solve rate for murders in the US that’s any better than 50%. So there’s a coin-toss chance this guy didn’t go out of his way to do anything right and still walks away.
According to an ABC article, he apparently used cash for everything. Clever dude if true
I didn’t know you could use cash for rental bikes.
All the ones in Chicago need the app in order to rent them.
Could you do it with a burner phone and load the app from a Visa gift card? Rent and place the city bike around the corner, do the deed, drop the phone (whether on accident or on purpose), take off on the bike.
Maybe pay a random stranger in cash to rent a bike for you
I really hope this doesn’t lead business to not accept cash.
I should use more cash on a daily basis to discourage this…
Businesses in NYC love cash. Shops everywhere have discounts for paying in cash. There are ATMs everywhere with $1 or less fee.
the cops can’t clear a solve rate for murders in the US that’s any better than 50%.
That is averaged between the murders they don’t care about and the ones they put effort into. It isn’t thst every individual murder has a 50% chsnce of being solved.
Turns out AI is wrong 90% of the time though
The reality is: Unless he fled the country he was always going to be caught. That is the point of living in a surveillance state. It was just a matter of time.
As a thought exercise, imagine a bathroom. Ten people go in. One person flips their jacket inside out. Ten people come out. Do you suddenly lose that one person who now has a green jacket instead of a red one? No. You realize the person with a green jacket never “entered” and know something was up.
And now extend that to every single traffic camera, security camera, and so forth in the city and in the country. Because now that “bathroom” is a camera at every major exit in and out of Central Park as well as places where the shrubbery is low enough that you can hop a fence.
And yes, that is a VERY large amount of data. If only we had spent the past few decades learning to represent things as graph problems, how to use computer vision to automate recognition, and so forth.
It was obviously dramatized (and is fascinating from a production standpoint and how much effort they put in to keep the nazi from killing anyone…) but Person of Interest wasn’t some dystopic future. It was, if anything, underestimating what is already possible.
So… here is hoping that ridiculously handsome G went straight to the airport and flew to a non extradition treaty country. Probably didn’t though and is probably going to get picked up at a bus station.
Also: For all the gun nuts who think you rae going to use your closet full of AR-15s to scream “WILDCATS” and fight off the fascists or invaders or whatever? They’ll have access to those cameras too and will be able to figure out what house or cave you are hiding in and send a few drones. So… yeah
Unless he fled the country he was always going to be caught
Eh. Read up on some of the other big mysteries (stuff like The Somerton Man). Every few years someone who has made it their career/identify has some irrefutable evidence that is either refuted or determined to not be that unique. Or it has been solved for decades but nobody cared enough to make it official and the people writing books/doing talk shows benefit from a “mystery”.
And in this case? McCoy had already been arrested for a similar crime and is long dead. Nobody really cared to keep searching.
But also? We have a LOT more cameras these days and a LOT more ability to process that data without human intervention.
Also, just to make it clear: even if the shooter escaped the country, they are going to be identified (flying on a fake ID is a lot harder and you can bet all the passengers are being checked against the pictures). But it won’t be US cops that catch him (probably just as dead if he doesn’t completely disappear though).
Just need to keep calling in with bogus tips. Say we saw him across the country.
I seent him in Bogota! I swears it!
That guy is Spartacus!
I hope they fail
they are so annoyed that they actually have to do any work because the subject was rich.
If this guy has any brains at all, he’s in Timbuktu by now.
He’s definitely not up here in Canada, relaxing in my basement.
Nor mine. They’d better not waste their resources coming up here to have a look.
He could literally take a train to Georgia and just hang out lmfao
Since they know that’s where he came from, pretty sure they’re looking for him threre
How do they know?
They have video of him arriving in NYC on a bus from Atlanta.
A smart lad would’ve done that to throw the cops off track. I hope he was smart.
The odds of him being found fall exponentially each day
Homer Simpson: No you won’t.
Probably have 200 pictures of the back of his hood. None of them worth a damn
Imagine what happens if they fail, and they can’t even produce a fall guy?
The thing is, Americans know their police force is lazy and useless. We’re all joking about all the murders that will go unsolved that have occurred since the CEO’s death. Now, there’s a real chance that their incompetence will be on full display. Is it really out of the question to think that they have become so impotent that someone could carefully plan and execute an assassination?
I expect they’ll find a fall guy if they can’t find the real killer. Can’t look incompetent when the nation’s watching!
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By all means do. I can’t wait to hear this man’s story.
And good luck getting a conviction. Jury Nullification go brrrrr
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Yup, this is my concern. They’ll claim he resisted during their no-knock raid, and they had no choice but to execute him in his bed. And all of the body footage will be “accidentally” scrubbed, or every single officer “forgot” to turn their body cams on.
“The assassin didn’t resist” is going to be the new “Epstein didn’t kill himself.”
Wouldn’t that be something? If the people collectively decided, “Nah this is fine. This was reasonable.”
I doubt it but that would be beautiful.
Could even stop before it gets that far. It’ll be difficult to convene a jury with so many candidates dismissed for saying “nah, fuck health insurance CEOs”.
Imagine the gofundme campaign for this guys defense
I bet he’d be like “Nah, use it to pay for people’s health care.”
I bet he’d be like "Nah, use it to pay for
people’s health caremore assassins.”Imagine a crowdfunded CEO bounty program
That moment when the Healthcare CEOs realize that no jury will convict their murderers in a country with more guns than people.
I wouldn’t rely on nullification. I instead think this guy deserves a full pardon. We pardon domestic abuse victims who kill their abusers, is this situation really so different?
There’s no one part of the system we should rely on. What I say I do so with hope in the full knowledge that we’re likely to see the corruption re-assert itself.
A 24 frames a second film has 24 photos, so they have roughly 8 seconds of footage?
50 years later they finally find him having lived a long fruitful life I’m Santa Monica as a smile model in Colgate commercials. Had 10 children with a beautiful model wife who loved him. Probably worked at the muffler shop for 20 years before discovering his Passion for photography.
Imagine doing this much public service then retiring into a regular job because you are a chill guy who just likes helping people
Something the rich parasites would never understand
King George, upon learning of George Washington’s intention to resign, said “If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.”
I’m not here to lionize or even defend slaveowner George Washington. Your comment just made me think of that.
ah shit. Run, bro.
They’re bluffing. Trying to get him to make a mistake
yea I was wondering about that. But I’m not so sure, it seems plausible that they would have been able to amass footage of him throughout the city
They also found “his” back with monopoly money in it…
Seems plausible that NYPD are stupid haha
Someone else said they might be counting each frame of a 24fps security camera as a photo, so like less than eight seconds right?
They don’t have that kind of network set up to my knowledge. Maybe in London but not New York.
“we are gonna get this guy”
I count 6
“we’re” is one word.
“Gonna” is slang, but still one word. You’d probably be better breaking that into “going” and “to”.
But still, the sentence is 5 words.
