It's going to be a week and they've yet to release his name even though they lied and said they knew it yesterday. Given this much of a head start, HOPEFULLY, he could be anywhere in the world rn.
Usually when a criminal is caught, it’s not due to the police doing top-notch investigative work, it’s that the criminal improperly prepared for the crime. They missed some detail, did not prepare for all the eventualities, and that slip up leaves a bread crumb for the cops.
This guy did it his prep work to a T:
- Knew his target’s schedule, picked a time when the area would be less crowded.
- While it’s not entirely clear if he was staying at a hostel or not, that’s a smart choice as those often will take cash and won’t require ID’s so it’s harder to trace.
- Burner phone, changes of clothes.
- Used a silencer to minimize noise, deftly unjammed the gun, zero hesitation in executing the target.
- Getaway on the bike, which is both more mobile than cop cars in Manhattan, but also negates the police’s camera tracking software that can identify people based on their gait.
- Heads for Central Park, the one bit of Manhattan, the one part of Manhattan that’s largely devoid of security cameras and has brush cover to dump the bag and change his jacket.
- Heads out of town via the port authority bus terminal, once again clever as it’s a distance transit option that will take cash and doesn’t require showing ID. Plus a lot of those no-name bus companies are shady AF and would probably be amenable to “no-tell” service and unauthorized stops to let someone out.
If he got a two day head start before the police realized how he got out of Manhattan, forget it, he could have to anywhere on the eastern seaboard or out to the Mississippi by then. They have no clue where to look for him.
but also negates the police’s camera tracking software that can identify people based on their gait.
Not going to argue execution wasn't good, but c'mon. This is about as real as the rest of their shit
Most forensics is junk. Doesn't mean it isn't used though. Do I trust software to do that? No. I can identify my friends and family by their walk though.
Yeah, once you notice it, everybody walks just a little bit funny. Gait detection is one of the only bits of social (as in people, bullet forensics is usually solid) forensics that I can believe whatsoever
It's valid enough that watching someone walk is used for medical diagnosis
it is used to diagnose problems with their gait, not like cancer or crisis of identity
Anecdotal, but I used to know someone with prosopagnosia (face blindness). They'd frequently identify people from further away than I could, partially due to their gait, whereas I had to wait until I could make out their face.
It's me, your friend! I can often identify people from behind, better than face-to-face, because the face will just cause a distraction for me to identify. Height, clothes/style, gait, body shape, voice, etc... all of these things are put together quickly for identifying someone, as the face is tricksy to my brain
Its also really easy to modify your gait. Put a rock in your shoe.
I didn't say they wouldn't use it, just that there is no reason you would have to "negate" it. It is clearly just more computer phrenology meant to get jurors to agree to convict. It's not like there's a gait database tied to individuals out there
Dogs recognize their owner by gait before it's possible for them to even see a face.
Gait recognition is a thing.
With all the other shit going on in the world right now, watching this guy just get away with executing one of our rulers on camera and totally finessing the cops on his way out has been such a glorious and singular ray of hope. I hope our guy is doing alright, wherever he is now.
If they haven't gotten him now I doubt they ever will. Solving murders isn't like on CSI/copaganda show of choice, and this type of anonymous killing is the hardest to solve. Especially since the list of people who had reason to want him dead may as well just be a list of anyone screwed over by a health insurance company(+family & friends, so basically everyone in America).
It sounds like this guy knew what he was doing, planned it out, and successfully pulled it off. Chances are the gun is long gone, probably same with the outfit he wore. Hell, the bike he rode off on might already be in pieces and disposed of. Depending on the resources he had access to he could be anywhere by now.
The only evidence I've heard that the cops have are the
bullet casings & the backpack full of monopoly money (which probably isn't even his, my fake money is on someone trolling the cops & throwing up a little smokescreen). Even the different photos they released look like different guys.Go watch a few episodes of The First 48. It's amazing how many people get caught because an anonymous tip comes in to give them a break in the case. Other than that, it's mostly them gathering evdence at the scene, asking witnesses, talking to coworkers and family of the deceased, and just hoping a dot connects.
I saw one episode where the guy they ended up charging came to the police station to say he had nothing to do with the murder. They hadn't heard of this guy and had nothing pointing to him before this point. Total fluke
Let's examine the means, motivation, and opportunity of the shooting to narrow it down who coulda dunnit:
Means: Just some generic pistol that anyone who isn't a felon could legally buy (and felons could illegally buy), subsonic rounds that (almost?) everyone could buy, and a silencer that could be legally purchased or illegally manufactured.
Motivation: Literally anyone who has ever been insured by United Health.
Opportunity: Anyone who was in NYC on that day.
United Health had also just done massive layoffs so it's all customers and any ex-employees
Don't forget the people screwed over by his insider trading.
If they haven’t gotten him now I doubt they ever will. Solving murders isn’t like on CSI/copaganda show of choice, and this type of anonymous killing is the hardest to solve. Especially since the list of people who had reason to want him dead may as well just be a list of anyone screwed over by a health insurance company(+family & friends, so basically everyone in America).
Yeah, but that's the thing. It's not like they're gonna just admit defeat in this situation; this is gonna get treated like the punishment of a royal assassination case in the middle ages. Somebody is gonna have to take the fall for this, whether they actually did it or not, and it's probably going to be made in the most openly cruel way possible.
It could be any of us. Why YOU, the very person reading this right now, could be The Adjustor. YOU could be out there doing revolutionary work right now and I wouldn't even know it. That's pretty wild.
My whole body vibrates when i get excited. I'd have a better chance killing with a sewing needle
I was doing a think
This guy is being hunted very seriously by the NYPD and they've turned up nothing.
This guy is potentially (assumed now by the Internet) white or white-ish/not a POC in people's eyes.
Does this kinda show that American police
- only know how to profile and catch black criminals or certain working class white people (like gangs i guess)
And/or
- solve most crimes through tips and people ratting others out or accusing people innocent of it and when everyone is kinda low key on the dudes side they've got nothin' to go on?
Basically all forensics is bullshit pseudoscience, as are all other cop methods. The only real forensic evidence is DNA, and dude didn’t leave any.
Does this kinda show that American police
only know how to profile and catch black criminals or working class white peopleAnd/or
solve most crimes through tips and people ratting others out or accusing people innocent of it and when everyone is kinda low key on the dudes side they've got nothin' go go on?I think so seeing as the NYPD is notorious for profiling black people.
!!!! I can't help but feel if the dude had being black, regardless of how much people were on his side he'd have been either ratted out by now or their profiling would help them given how historically racist their policing is from what I've heard and you also said.
I wonder how NYPD health insurance is. Maybe they really don't give a shit
Ok when did this guy start getting called the Adjuster and wtf does it mean. I swear like three days ago I logged off for 8 hours and came back and everyone had decided he was called “the adjuster” while I was gone.
Ah, so its as I thought. It’s an American joke that I have too much public healthcare access to understand.
The full name is "The Claims Adjuster", but as the Internet does, it was shortened.
hadn't seen it before when I posted this comment
there was also this thread about coming up with a nickname
obviously very morally different cases, but i'm thinking about how the DC sniper in 2002 (maybe) intended to kill his ex wife, but was also mentally ill enough to cook up a scheme where he would cover up the motive by killing strangers too, and the reason they caught him was because he wanted to act like a TV serial killer and kept leaving calling cards and making calls from payphones and intentionally lead them to investigate a previous crime in alabama that they connected to him through fingerprint evidence and he and his teenage accomplice that he groomed still killed 17 people like I understand it was a different technological era but this guy was doing everything he could to be caught and the cops and the FBI were still mostly just pulling their dicks and getting nowhere, so how in the fuck are they ever going to catch someone who simply gets his target and leaves?
They were telling people to look out for a white panel van for half the killing spree and it turned out that wasn’t even close lol
damn is there a good long-from article about this? I mean I know I can go to NATOpedia but I don't have the stomach for it right now
Gotta change the name of my back alley chiropractor persona now. Thanks.
Did the NYPD ever confirm that they knew the shooters name or was that all Eric Adams?
No love for the NYPD, but I wouldn't say they bungled anything. It's just not really a crime you can solve. There's no evidence.
come on
