Americans like to think they are exceptional. Yet most couldn’t tell you the first thing about how governments, like clockwork, repeat the same bloody cycles of tyranny and collapse. Everyone assumes the Nazis hold the crown for worst government in history. Sure, Hitler’s crew were sadistic thugs who industrialized murder. But “the worst”? Not even close. They just happened to do their killing during a time when cameras, film, and bureaucratic obsession with record-keeping made their atrocities impossible to hide. If Goebbels had been working with the technology of Genghis Khan, you’d barely have a postcard left to prove it. History is littered with tyrants who weren’t so kind as to leave photo albums of their mass murders. The Turks tried to erase the Armenians. Stalin starved Ukraine into submission during the Holodomor, then doubled down by purging his own people until the bodies stacked higher than Lenin’s promises. Mao made Stalin look like an amateur, turning his “Great Leap F...
As I've expected the police have been busy recovering money and rounding up suspects. The odds of breaking a case where a gang of criminals is involved increases by the number of participants. This gang was too large to avoid quick discovery and capture.
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I've observed over recent years that most high profile crime, like this robbery, but more particularly incidents of murder seem to get solved and go to trial.
Is this success rate of serious crime indicitive of better detection (through better technology and methods) or is my perception incorrect reliant as it is on media reporting.
James, UK.
Technology such as cell phone and surveillance camera tracking abilities greatly reduces the chances of criminals escaping police scrutiny.
These cases are always solved in the police interrogation rooms. Criminals can nearly always be counted on being foiled by their own words. They never learn to zip their mouths shut and ask for lawyers.
If the convicts in the prisons of the free world could somehow take back all the lies or confessions made in interrogation rooms the prisons would all be nearly empty.