Re:Blackstone to Acquire Ancestry.com for $4.7B
by michaelmrose on Thursday August 06, 2020 @07:35PM
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The vast majority of murders that we are in fact actually pretty poor at preventing or solving are the result of people killing people they know or criminals killing one another.
We only solve less than 2/3 of murders that are known to be murders which individually ought to be vastly easier than random murders.
It is hard to quantify how many of the missing are victims estimates range from 180 to 1800 annual deaths. This means its between half as many as drown in their bathtub and 5 times as many in the worst case.
All this out of a population of aprox 330M people 600k people who will for example die of cancer for context.
It is terrible that serial murderers exist but we cannot and should not rearrange all of our priorities and ignore the rights of the hundreds of millions in order to protect the few.
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
We only solve less than 2/3 of murders that are known to be murders which individually ought to be vastly easier than random murders.
It is hard to quantify how many of the missing are victims estimates range from 180 to 1800 annual deaths. This means its between half as many as drown in their bathtub and 5 times as many in the worst case.
All this out of a population of aprox 330M people 600k people who will for example die of cancer for context.
It is terrible that serial murderers exist but we cannot and should not rearrange all of our priorities and ignore the rights of the hundreds of millions in order to protect the few.