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Six-year-old abducted from California park in 1951 found alive after seven decades
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2024
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That's a really weird statement. Oaklands police strives for no leads and a cold case for 70 years, leaving the mother in uncertainty until her death and then the family finding the missing person themselves?
I mean its great, that he was found well and alive, but if that is what your police strives for... the bar is like underground.
Aren't police clearance rates for missing persons and murder cases like, in the low single digits? Cops aren't good at this.
It's like 1-2% for pretty much any crime. They're basically there because you need a police report to make an insurance claim.
Yeah, I've heard about the same. Roughly 2% even for violent crime. And yet revisiting their budgets is apparently fucking communism.
They're not magically omniscient, if that's what you mean. You've set a really high bar for American cops, who are continually accused of being violent and stupid.
The bar isn't really that high if you look at how cases that are solved actually got solved (deductive reasoning, forensic analysis, trust from the community including the marginalized, and focused manpower from people who give a fuck).
It's just that the people who want to be cops are more interested in wearing a fancy uniform, using weapons, harassing poor people, and beating their spouses than actually doing real work that involves brain power. Not to mention office politics.
Magic omniscience would probably help though. They should work on that after solving the "violent and stupid" issue. ;)
It's not all that weird when you remember that ACAB.
On the plus side, the cops didn't murder anyone this time.
I guess we can be sure the family doesn't own a dog.
it probably helps that it's the albino family.
keep in mind this case was only solved because the neice did a DNA ancestry test and found a nearest match. If police wanted this data, they either would have needed to ask said family to turn in DNA (which id imagine back then, wasnt a service at this scale) or to give them 100% access to DNA data of every citizen, which I doubt anyone wants.
I'm not criticising that police couldn't find him themselves. My issue is with the statement, that this is an outcome they "strive" for as if finding him after 70 years (SEVENTY) was an ideal outcome in a child abduction case. As if this was the most they aim for.