All my mom watches is all of those Murder shows on cable like Forensic Files and the like. She's been watching this since I can remember and long before I ever heard the term "true crime". I legit think shows like this are why so many gen-x and boomers are terrified of the world. They all open talking about how the small town that the case happened in was using almost identical language each time, " here in x we don't lock our doors, everybody knows everybody, things don't happen like this in x, we stop and help people on theroad ". And as a person who grew up in a small town I'm like what? Everyone there is the most paranoid castle doctrine ass motherfucker I've ever met. They don't know their neighbors and they treat anyone who they don't know as threats. Then the show goes at lengths to show you how kind, pretty, full of life, etc the victim is so they can then go into detail about how they were brutalized.
I don't know where I'm going with this rant it's just something that's been on my mind for a while.
Added with "Missing White Woman Syndrome" and you got crakkkers convinced they ass is in danger 24/7.
Yeah some white woman goes missing and they have detectives still looking 40 years later but a serial killer murders black and brown sex workers and homeless women and they forget next week.
I've mostly fallen off of it but I used to listen to LPOTL a fair amount, and one thing I will give them credit for is they always acknowledge this and give cops shit over it.
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Cops don't care about POC, sex workers, homeless people, gay men, and a lot of the worst serial killers back in the day went on for as long as they did because that's who they targeted. They called these victims/the phenomenon of cops just not caring to investigate crimes against them "the less dead"