I’m seeing some idiotic takes around the internet, especially yesterday, arguing that the UHC CEO assassin will get away with it. The argument is he covered his face, rode a bike, disappeared into central park, used a silencer, wasn’t caught in or around the scene of the crime, etc. Furthermore, the U.S. only has something like a 50% homicide conviction rate, which is pretty crazily low all things considered.

This is a stupid take. Yes, the homicide conviction rate is very low, but that is because most murders are of people that the system doesn’t care about. A very large percent of those murders are low income black on black violence, and relatively few of those murders result in a conviction. Here, the victim is a globohomo cog in the machine who made $10 mil+ a year — he is important. Because of that, globohomo will expend resources as a high priority to find and track down the killer, especially to disincentivize something like this from happening again. The murder happened in NYC which is one of the most surveilled cities in the world, and all it takes is one wrong move in order to get found out. Globohomo could find him if he had his cell phone on him, they could find him if he left a fingerprint somewhere, they could find him if his silencer was registered (small number of buyers), they could find him if he de-masked at some point (which he did) or if he used his credit card somewhere. There are so many ways they could track this guy down if the political will is there, which in this case it is.

He will be identified and arrested quickly. This isn’t the past; we live in the era of the omnipresent security state.