Comment by bena
2 years ago
It really depends on what you're looking to get away with.
If you're looking to get away with orchestrating the murder of someone you know, it can be difficult.
However, if you're just looking to get away with murdering someone in general, that's surprisingly easy. Just go a town or two over and knife a random someone in a random parking lot. Police success rates are comically low.
Police success rates on completely random murders are insanely low partially because they're insanely rare.
Complete success is something like 50% overall, but in general in many of those cases that "aren't solved" they know who did it, they also know they can't prove it.
Considering the number of people in prison who get exonerated, I'm glad that the ones "they know" did it aren't actually in jail. Because that seems like random chance that they're actually right.
But it's also why I qualified my statements. That if you're looking to kill a particular person, that's way harder than "getting away with murder" in general.
Police only have so many tools at their disposal. And if there is no link between victim and perpetrator, the job becomes way harder.
This is why I'm against the death penalty. I don't think that executing 95(97?) actual murderers is worth the chance of killing 5(3?) completely innocent people. That's not justice, that's just good odds, and it shouldn't apply to human life. Lock them up for life. Give an option for execution if they want to take that way out.