• RegalPotoo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Conversely, dramas where:

    • Multiple murders happen in a small town with barely any police
    • Suspect is gasp the police chief’s son!
    • Lots of intrigue very drama! How will we catch this killer? We are just small town cops!

    Call the fucking FBI - that’s their whole thing. I get rugged individualism but it’s 2024, you’ve got phones, nearest field office is probably a few hours drive away, I’m sure they’d be happy to come help. It’s not the 1840s anymore.

      • sheogorath@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        After watching a video on how local police officers wrongfully arrested FBI agents and/or breaking undercover agents cover, I totally understood why they’re stereotyped as having so much disdain to the local police force in the movies and TV series.

  • MataVatnik@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I hate people who are “fascinated” by serial killers. They are just emotionally stunted morons who get off to violating the social contract. There is nothing special about them.

    • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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      I am fascinated by what causes a person to become that way. But I agree, I once read up on Manson cause you hear so much about him. Manson was a moron and a jackass, just a complete waste of a person, an utter loser, yet people talk about him like he’s a genius. He’s honestly so ordinary and unimpressive.

  • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Pretty much every crime documentary or series based on a true crime story, I’m just yelling at the tv cause it’s always the cops and their complete lack of giving a fuck that lets the killers continue on. Especially if the victims are sex workers or gay men. Gay man gets brutally murdered by a serial killer, cops are like “probably a gay thing”.

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    This just made me rage at the Dexter reboot… Greatest serial killer of all time… Evades Miami police force, FBI for decades… And is taken down by some noname bumfuck cop in butthole nowhere…

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      It was an unfamiliar environment, and he wasn’t used to destruction as a body disposal method.

      People who are excellent at what they do can still be thrown off by doing something in a new context.

      When he was an actual beginner, he had beginner mind and was wracking his brain to think of everything. He unconsciously modeled that furnace as functionally equivalent to the ocean, which it wasn’t.

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        1 year ago

        That’s why you start on animals to make sure the new location and disposal method works. Keep those stakes low for the time being

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    If there’s anything true crime podcasts have taught me, it’s that police imcompetence is not constrained to small towns.