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"True Crime" and it's Consequences (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Thorngraff_Ironbeard@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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All my mom watches is all of those Murder shows on cable like Forensic Files and the like. She's been watching this since I can remember and long before I ever heard the term "true crime". I legit think shows like this are why so many gen-x and boomers are terrified of the world. They all open talking about how the small town that the case happened in was using almost identical language each time, " here in x we don't lock our doors, everybody knows everybody, things don't happen like this in x, we stop and help people on theroad ". And as a person who grew up in a small town I'm like what? Everyone there is the most paranoid castle doctrine ass motherfucker I've ever met. They don't know their neighbors and they treat anyone who they don't know as threats. Then the show goes at lengths to show you how kind, pretty, full of life, etc the victim is so they can then go into detail about how they were brutalized.

I don't know where I'm going with this rant it's just something that's been on my mind for a while.

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[–] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 27 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It pisses me off how so many of the stories are basically "and the killer escaped once again, because the cops were too busy smoking crack and jacking off to CP," and then act all congratulatory and grateful for the police when they finally get their shit together enough to solve the problem they could have solved three murders ago.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

because the cops were too busy

I live in a big state with very small population. My state has a nonimally strict "three strikes you're out" DUI law. In reality - the law is a joke. For many DUI cases - the cops literally don't show up in court and the cases are dropped. It's not usual to see news of a tragic accident done by a driver with ~5 DUIs or even more due to the fucking cops being lazy.

I wonder how many states like mine have a similar DUI problem. I did some googling and google is such shit that it wrongly gave me this article about Montana: Man Arrested for His 7th DUI After Crashing on I-90 in Missoula.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Montana used to have drinking and driving be legal not too long ago. I think they only got rid of it in like 2006 or some shit. Not sure if they had BAC limits to go with it, though.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

Montana used to have drinking and driving be legal not too long ago.

That beats my state by a mile. We "only" had drive-thru liquor stores until ~25 years ago when they were banned. I'm American but I've never understood the caviler attitude of car-brained Americans towards booze and driving.

[–] Thorngraff_Ironbeard@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago

Cops either know who it is for 8 years and fuck it up so bad they can't arrest the guy or the grab the nearest black man who they can say was within 50 miles of the crime.