I'd say yeah when you look at the way cases can be closed with circumstantial evidence.
The lack of effort is telling. It's personal biases within policing as an institution.
Even with something like apprehending serial killers, you gotta take into account the way the victims are treated. Sex workers, members of the LGBTQ community, people of color, homeless people, etc. If police in general mistreat those groups, detectives would likely not put in the same effort unless the victims were part of a privileged group.
(Unsure if I should cw below, but I still just in case.)
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I think of stories about witnesses being ignored or cases going cold because the victim was gay or an immigrant. Even recently in Canada, the investigation into a series of missing men didn't go anywhere until a white man went missing.
I think that indifference is a form of state violence - to consider certain groups part of the "less than dead" and take away a basic expectation of safety for so many people. It's why trans people of color especially face higher rates of homicide.
But really it all comes down to what an institution does in relation to capital. Detectives are part of the police and they both serve the wealthier more than any other group. That makes them bastards.
I'd say yeah when you look at the way cases can be closed with circumstantial evidence. The lack of effort is telling. It's personal biases within policing as an institution.
Even with something like apprehending serial killers, you gotta take into account the way the victims are treated. Sex workers, members of the LGBTQ community, people of color, homeless people, etc. If police in general mistreat those groups, detectives would likely not put in the same effort unless the victims were part of a privileged group.
(Unsure if I should cw below, but I still just in case.)
spoiler
I think of stories about witnesses being ignored or cases going cold because the victim was gay or an immigrant. Even recently in Canada, the investigation into a series of missing men didn't go anywhere until a white man went missing.
I think that indifference is a form of state violence - to consider certain groups part of the "less than dead" and take away a basic expectation of safety for so many people. It's why trans people of color especially face higher rates of homicide.
But really it all comes down to what an institution does in relation to capital. Detectives are part of the police and they both serve the wealthier more than any other group. That makes them bastards.