Don’t get me wrong, I’ve not actually tried to kill anyone either, but I’ve thought about the pragmatics of it, and I don’t think premeditated murder is actually prohibitively difficult to get away with. I’m pretty sure it’s more of a psychological barrier than anything else.
That’s not a good number to base your calculations on. Getting away with any crime nowadays is extremely difficult if the police and prosecutors are willing to invest significant resources in investigating and prosecuting it. How much they’ll be willing to invest heavily depends on all sorts of circumstances, even when it comes to the most serious crimes.
In particular, murders and other violent crimes are investigated far more vigorously if committed in a respectable environment, in a way makes high-status people feel unsafe.
It’s not that hard to kill most people, but it’s usually pretty hard to kill someone without getting caught.
Killing most people would be tough! I suspect I’d be stopped well before reaching .0001% of people, myself.
Have you ever actually tried?
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve not actually tried to kill anyone either, but I’ve thought about the pragmatics of it, and I don’t think premeditated murder is actually prohibitively difficult to get away with. I’m pretty sure it’s more of a psychological barrier than anything else.
Really? One of three murders in the U.S. go unsolved.
http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2009/data/table_25.html
jdinkum:
That’s not a good number to base your calculations on. Getting away with any crime nowadays is extremely difficult if the police and prosecutors are willing to invest significant resources in investigating and prosecuting it. How much they’ll be willing to invest heavily depends on all sorts of circumstances, even when it comes to the most serious crimes.
In particular, murders and other violent crimes are investigated far more vigorously if committed in a respectable environment, in a way makes high-status people feel unsafe.