Serial killers overwhelmingly target minorities and the poor, this is why they are tolerated and tacitly encouraged by the bourgeoisie. As a visceral and immediate threat they distract the lower classes while being no danger to the elite. I believe that the vast majority of serial killers are known to the authorities but are allowed to operate until they become too inconvenient (such as the one in Toronto who police knowingly ignored for almost a decade until they finally killed someone connected.) In addition I believe that serial killersc are an existential threat to the common people and allowing them to live once caught displays disgusting cowardice and represents a moral failing on behalf of our society. Likely the reason that perpetrating dozens of rapes/tortures/murders/etc of the most heinous kind, is not an automatic execution is because our elites behave this way regularly on their private gatherings (as was covered up in the Jeffrey Epstein debacle.)

Anyway what do you all think on the topic? If you're wondering it was that post about the two guys killing the kid that set me off. Might make some more rants on other topics lol.

  • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    Possibly. In Poland during socialism (45 years) we had 14 cases of serial killers with 70 victims overall* and even then we had one case where one of the victims was niece of Edward Gierek and the militia got order to find the murderer top priority. So i can only imagine how it is in capitalism. MO was much better than the current police in detecting such cases. Hell, even the interwar police had more successes.

    *Including one case where the murders started during the nazi occupation but excluding the one when first murder was in PRL and next ones in 3RP.