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Re:David Simon Made Baltimore Detectives Famous. Now Their C... by ncmncm on Thursday January 13, 2022 @02:33PM (#29925590)
How hard was it to get them to arrest Ted Bundy, or even to acknowledge that there was anything to arrest him for? How long did they stall first?
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Re:David Simon Made Baltimore Detectives Famous. Now Their C... by oh_sigh on Thursday January 13, 2022 @02:48PM (#29925818)
Is your argument that delaying the arrest of a serial killer is worse for society than not arresting him at all?

Bundy was arrested in 1975 but released due to lack of evidence. Does that mean the police didn't want to arrest him, or does that mean the police officers were following the law, and couldn't just lock him up on their hunch?

Look up the Aspen summit, where dozens of officers and prosecutors came together to share information, discuss his case, and they agreed that Bundy was the man they were looking for, but needed more hard evidence to arrest and convict him. That certainly looks like the behavior of officers who want to arrest him, and not stalling behavior.

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