[tyingq]

>I always wonder at how criminals that otherwise might seem movie-like masterminds are caught as a result of mundane mistakes and outright stupid moves like this.

I think the same when you watch TV shows like Dateline. Yet the clearance rate for homicides in the US is below 60%. And I doubt that 40% are all master minds.

[me_me_me]

that's because there are very few masterminds on the other side of the fence.

The idea of a detective as per cop movies are romanticised, a lot of them are doing bare minimum and are as dumb as the criminals.

[silexia]

I had the misfortune of seeing this first hand. I caught an employee who embezzled $19,000 from my company red handed. The police refused to help even after I reported it until I called the mayor's office and complained.

[me_me_me]

But if you caught them red handed why are their hands not red? Case closed.

[Apocryphon]

Now that's going all the way to the top!

[erdos4d]

> Yet the clearance rate for homicides in the US is below 60%

The war on drugs helped a lot with this.

[55555]

I assume you mean because LE is splitting resources and also dealing with drug cases. I think it wouldn't be unrealistic to have the drug cases fund themselves through seizures. I wonder how bad of an ROI our LE gets on drug investigations.

[Clewza313]

Drug prohibition also drives up murder rates massively. For your typical turf war murder, even the victims' side has little incentive to talk to the cops.