r/interestingasfuck • u/ExactlySorta • 21d ago

A United Healthcare CEO shooter lookalike competition takes place at Washington Square Park r/all

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u/poopscooperguy 21d ago

I’ve been saying the same thing. Do they pour this many resources into everyone that gets Murdered in NYC? Doubtful.

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u/axiomaticreaction 21d ago

I’m not gonna go double check but I think I read that there were 5 other homicides in NYC that day.

There was also a couple kindergarten kids shot at their school in Northern California the day before.

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u/ipenlyDefective 20d ago

It's about 400 per year, so just over 1 per day. Just under half get solved.

If Brian Thompson were a random person, and someone killed him with this much planning, they would 100% get away with it. This guy will probably be caught because of the focus on it.

Or at least, someone will be caught. Much like the Central Park 5.

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u/iv2892 21d ago

Not really, that was the only one as far as we know . The next day a migrant teen got killed. But overall for such a big city, the amount of homicides are very low

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u/llittleserie 20d ago

The amount of homicides is low relative to other cities in the Americas, but it's high relative to East Asian and European cities.

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u/iv2892 20d ago

True , but within the US context for example Chicago is far from being the most violent city but it had 617 homicides in 2023 while NYC had around 380. The population of Chicago is around 2.5M while NYC is 8M .

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u/thecrepeofdeath 20d ago

rate of murders actually being solved in the US has been dropping steadily for some time now. and this doesn't account for all the "accidental" or "unknown" deaths that everyone knows were murder, but they don't care about. like two of my friends. or the people they killed themselves. like my uncle. they're nuts if they think the people they've been mistreating and sweeping under the rug are going to jump at the chance to help them with anything, lol. especially helping them find a guy they're 100% going to shoot on sight

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u/nuclearswan 20d ago

Absolutely not. They don’t even pretend to be unbiased.