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.

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.

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.

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?

narrowed it down to cool dudes

The Adjuster is such a banger

The adjuster and his arch foe, the bungler

I wonder how NYPD health insurance is. Maybe they really don't give a shit

Did the NYPD ever confirm that they knew the shooters name or was that all Eric Adams?

Gotta change the name of my back alley chiropractor persona now. Thanks.

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.

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?

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.