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.
lot of comments in here talking about how they’re just doing their kills some other way: cops, mass shootings, not getting caught (this one is the most braindead). But everyone is ignoring how we’ve largely eliminated regular lead exposure that used to be the norm. that shit makes you go fucking insane.
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.
Leaded gasoline production and learning about the butterfly room in the lead producing part of the factory was fucking terrifying. That shit was so dangerous to workers.
[…] House of Butterflies—a building for tetraethyl lead synthesis—so named because its workers were known for brushing hallucinated insects from their bodies.
Absolutely chilling. The rest of the article is good too. A great example of how championing for positive change, though difficult and frustrating, can have huge huge positive effects. So glad to have heroes like Needleman in the world.
lot of comments in here talking about how they’re just doing their kills some other way: cops, mass shootings, not getting caught (this one is the most braindead). But everyone is ignoring how we’ve largely eliminated regular lead exposure that used to be the norm. that shit makes you go fucking insane.
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.
Leaded gasoline production and learning about the butterfly room in the lead producing part of the factory was fucking terrifying. That shit was so dangerous to workers.
Not to mention drivers and pedestrians.
What is the butterfly room?
Probably this https://www.pittmed.health.pitt.edu/story/houses-butterflies
Absolutely chilling. The rest of the article is good too. A great example of how championing for positive change, though difficult and frustrating, can have huge huge positive effects. So glad to have heroes like Needleman in the world.
Really scary and sad for workers who were so badly poisoned. Glad we phased it out.
Jesus chrost that is fucked up.
Clair Cameron Patterson should be on the dollar bill.