How long does it take you to save one life on average? GiveWell’s top charities save a life for about $5000. If you can get close to that there should be many EA philanthropists willing to fund you or a charity you create.
And I think they should be willing to go up to like $10-20k at least because murders are probably especially bad deaths in terms of their effects on the world.
It varies depending on how powerful the law enforcement agency is and whether they understand it or not, with the FBI and German Federal police being the most effective.
It’s not all saving lives, often it’s protecting people from stalking, physical and mental abuse, child custody disputes and the like, because in many cases (especially so with women perpetrators) they would never actually turn to violence themselves.
I have not been party to all of the journalist hard costs for local investigators, but I think they were doing at least $3,000 initially per major case, but they would go higher when it looked like this would turn into a full podcast episode. There is also a issue where cases without payment are considered less serious than those with by the police, and require more up front investigation to understand. As a result, far more of the ‘payer’ cases were investigated compared to the non-payer ones, at least in the US.
Sometimes such as in the US the police would then move fast, but in places like Spain the journalist had to act as a victim advocate extensively for years, and in Italy the cases collapsed on technicalities.
Frankly, beyond my personal experience, I REALLY don’t want to live in a world where people can order commodity killings anonymously, as my data shows that all sorts of people would. I consider this analogous to the psychological effect that terrorism has on society, despite not being a high source of actually violence relatively speaking.
But yeah, murder is bad actually and should be given higher priority than other causes of death in my opinion.
In that case I would consider applying for EA funds if you are willing to do the work professionally or set up a charity to do it. I think you could make a strong case that it meets the highest bar for important, neglected and tractable work.
How long does it take you to save one life on average? GiveWell’s top charities save a life for about $5000. If you can get close to that there should be many EA philanthropists willing to fund you or a charity you create.
And I think they should be willing to go up to like $10-20k at least because murders are probably especially bad deaths in terms of their effects on the world.
It varies depending on how powerful the law enforcement agency is and whether they understand it or not, with the FBI and German Federal police being the most effective.
It’s not all saving lives, often it’s protecting people from stalking, physical and mental abuse, child custody disputes and the like, because in many cases (especially so with women perpetrators) they would never actually turn to violence themselves.
I have not been party to all of the journalist hard costs for local investigators, but I think they were doing at least $3,000 initially per major case, but they would go higher when it looked like this would turn into a full podcast episode. There is also a issue where cases without payment are considered less serious than those with by the police, and require more up front investigation to understand. As a result, far more of the ‘payer’ cases were investigated compared to the non-payer ones, at least in the US.
Sometimes such as in the US the police would then move fast, but in places like Spain the journalist had to act as a victim advocate extensively for years, and in Italy the cases collapsed on technicalities.
Frankly, beyond my personal experience, I REALLY don’t want to live in a world where people can order commodity killings anonymously, as my data shows that all sorts of people would. I consider this analogous to the psychological effect that terrorism has on society, despite not being a high source of actually violence relatively speaking.
But yeah, murder is bad actually and should be given higher priority than other causes of death in my opinion.
In that case I would consider applying for EA funds if you are willing to do the work professionally or set up a charity to do it. I think you could make a strong case that it meets the highest bar for important, neglected and tractable work.
Do you know anyone who could guide me through this process?
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