You know what pisses me off? Is when people are like “this serial killer wasn’t THAT charming the cops are just full of shit”.
Like. Thing is we are looking back with 20/20 hindsight that he was a serial killer so we SEE him for the creep he was. But you look at the reactions of people who knew him when he got arrested and they just couldn’t believe it because he fucking charmed the shit out of them. There’s a card he got from his fellow church members, basically saying “Hope you get out of prison soon!!” Like people thought he was amazing.
You all need to shut the fuck up because honestly you are practically victim blaming when you say that they should’ve seen how creepy he was or whatever. You already know what he did. They didn’t.
The fact is is that there are criminals and serial killers whose entire lives revolve around charm and manipulation. And they don’t want you to see the bad side until it’s too late. It’s not fucking “copiganda” to say that.
I’d argue that the opposite is copaganda, to be honest. giving somebody less leeway and less rights, assuming them guilty, just because it’s a gut feeling or they look creepy or whatever is profiling, in some cases it’s the “justification” for racial profiling. and these people aren’t the most charming people in the world necessarily because they don’t have to be, people will just assume the best of their friends and such, but when you don’t know the person and you know they did something terrible, that is the context through which you’re viewing their actions, not “this is my brother who’s just been accused”. a cop who didn’t go “he creeped me out so he’s the killer” but was wrong, is a better cop than one who did go “he creeped me out so he’s the killer” and was wrong, every time, because the evidence is what needs to speak not the cop’s feelings about a person’s demeanour. and that is why I say it’s copaganda to say that they will be able to tell and should have done so, since it is inherently saying that their interpretation of how a person looks deserves more weight. but that isn’t to say that neglecting to look into any given lead is justified, if they ignore things that they should be looking into because a person seemed nice that’s bad too - what I’m saying is that there’s been a massive boom in the idea of using body language as “proof” or reason to be assuming somebody guilty or innocent, and if you give cops that kind of power it can easily lead to things like profiling and mistakes.
Yes!!!
