Since a dramatic peak in the 1980s, serial killers in the U.S. like Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer have been in decline for three decades. Experts have a few theories that can help explain why.
I don’t like the way policing has turned many first world countries into semi-police states … being a person of colour (like me) automatically makes you questionable with the law no matter what you’re doing. I know from experience.
But after saying all that, mass murderers and killers are probably lesser now because of better policing, mass surveillance, intercommunications, mass data collection, profiling, forensic science and monitoring. It’s a lot harder now than in was in the 60s, 70s or 80s for a random stranger to wander from place to place committing murders and not getting caught. It doesn’t mean it’s not possible … it’s just that in our day in age of technology, it’s a lot harder.
Yet a lot of those mass shooters said they were going to do it online for like two months before they did it. So many stories of ‘why didn’t they catch this crazy person saying theyre going to murder a bunch of people’ all while there’s massive data collection and analysis programs operating.
The surveillance you speak of is not to protect us. It is to protect the state and also the corporations running the surveillance use it to make quite a lot of money. They both get the added benefit of exerting control over the population.
I don’t like the way policing has turned many first world countries into semi-police states … being a person of colour (like me) automatically makes you questionable with the law no matter what you’re doing. I know from experience.
But after saying all that, mass murderers and killers are probably lesser now because of better policing, mass surveillance, intercommunications, mass data collection, profiling, forensic science and monitoring. It’s a lot harder now than in was in the 60s, 70s or 80s for a random stranger to wander from place to place committing murders and not getting caught. It doesn’t mean it’s not possible … it’s just that in our day in age of technology, it’s a lot harder.
Yet a lot of those mass shooters said they were going to do it online for like two months before they did it. So many stories of ‘why didn’t they catch this crazy person saying theyre going to murder a bunch of people’ all while there’s massive data collection and analysis programs operating.
The surveillance you speak of is not to protect us. It is to protect the state and also the corporations running the surveillance use it to make quite a lot of money. They both get the added benefit of exerting control over the population.