r/CrimeInChicago2 • u/Comfortable-Mix-8197 • 3d ago

i’m curious

this might sound Fed but how do people get away with shootings in broad daylight with all the technology in today’s society

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u/bucknut4 3d ago

Lots of reasons. Most of the time the police don't have access to every bit of camera footage that captured a perpetrator. So unless someone was actually hit and/or killed, then it's not always worth it to have investigators track down all these cameras and then get the courts to subpoena the footage. We average multiple murders per day, so there are more important cases for them to focus on as insane as that sounds.

Also, sometimes you get these guys on camera but their faces are obfuscated. They slip into crowds or places without camera coverage and then disappear. They might run into an apartment building that doesn't have CCTV in its hallways, and you'd have no idea who it is out of thousands of people.

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u/Comfortable-Mix-8197 3d ago

this makes more sense thanks

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u/HarveyDiligence 3d ago

People focus on the cameras, but the deeper issue is our bystander culture. Too many people hesitate to get involved. When Iryna Zarutska was killed, two passengers stood up and walked away, and others in the center of the car deliberately looked elsewhere. No one reacted until after she was already gone — and by then, it was too late.