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[–] 82 points 2 years ago (19 children)

Best of luck with getting cooperation from citizens at large.

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  • [–] 67 points 2 years ago (17 children)

    All 337,522,185 of us didn't see nothin'.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (16 children)

    ...but the cameras and AI did :(

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    I'm not too fussed about the AI, to be honest. It'll just declare that it has 14,986 suspects who "definitely" did it, most of whom will just coincidentally turn out to be black.

    The odds of them being able to definitively tie a face to a name in a single stroke are pretty remote. The investigation strategy will probably revolve around tracking down where he went and how he got there. If he rode a bus, they will investigate who was on that bus. Same if he took a plane. Or if he hired an Uber, or whatever. Whose credit cards were used to purchase tickets, whose cell phones were tracked in those locations at those times, etc. Wasn't he on a rental bike? They will try to track payment methods for those rental bikes. Etc.

    Even with all their manpower and spy technologies and cell phone spoofing towers and dogs and any amount of shiny badges, the cops can't clear a solve rate for murders in the US that's any better than 50%. So there's a coin-toss chance this guy didn't go out of his way to do anything right and still walks away.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    According to an ABC article, he apparently used cash for everything. Clever dude if true

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    I didn’t know you could use cash for rental bikes.

    All the ones in Chicago need the app in order to rent them.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Could you do it with a burner phone and load the app from a Visa gift card? Rent and place the city bike around the corner, do the deed, drop the phone (whether on accident or on purpose), take off on the bike.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Maybe pay a random stranger in cash to rent a bike for you

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    That might be tough, since the cardholder is on the hook for the bike. I know I wouldn't do that for a stranger in NYC.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Some reports are saying it wasn't a rental bike, but it was the same e-bike model that the city's rental service uses, likely paid for with cash.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    That would be something - buying a whole-ass e-bike to escape from your murder scene with. Interesting, too, that that bike hasn't been found yet, which means he didn't ditch it anywhere nearby, if at all.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Probably why he had an e-bike. Fast, silent, small, and easy to ride long distances compared to a normal bike, or a car in New York. Definitely helps that you can buy them for cash, without a license, and often person-to-person second hand

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  • And there's a lot of ebikes on the used market that were stolen in the first place. I've been trying to buy an ebike for a while and it's something that's on my mind while shopping used. So the seller is even more incentivized to keep their mouth shut.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    the cops can’t clear a solve rate for murders in the US that’s any better than 50%.

    That is averaged between the murders they don't care about and the ones they put effort into. It isn't thst every individual murder has a 50% chsnce of being solved.

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