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It's already been two and a half days. The longer they go without catching him the less likely it will be that they do.
The fact that they are issuing a wider manhunt seems to back that up.
Given the publicity, I'm sure that they'll catch a guy, but I'm skeptical that they'll catch that guy.
I hope they fail
This is how I learn that Optum is a subsidiary. Even more apropos that this happened just before I took my wife to another chemo appointment at a facility that was recently bought by Optum ... two and a half weeks late because insurance dragged its feet on authorization.
In addition to looking for the killer, police are still searching for a motive as to why someone would kill Thompson.
This is definitely where they need to focus their resources first.
It's clear they haven't even given it a first look. The guy put the title of the book on the bullet casings
Honestly? Yea probably. It'd be fucking amazing if the police ended up releasing a report on just how much UHC fucked this guy or his family/friends over.
The reality is: Unless he fled the country he was always going to be caught. That is the point of living in a surveillance state. It was just a matter of time.
As a thought exercise, imagine a bathroom. Ten people go in. One person flips their jacket inside out. Ten people come out. Do you suddenly lose that one person who now has a green jacket instead of a red one? No. You realize the person with a green jacket never "entered" and know something was up.
And now extend that to every single traffic camera, security camera, and so forth in the city and in the country. Because now that "bathroom" is a camera at every major exit in and out of Central Park as well as places where the shrubbery is low enough that you can hop a fence.
And yes, that is a VERY large amount of data. If only we had spent the past few decades learning to represent things as graph problems, how to use computer vision to automate recognition, and so forth.
It was obviously dramatized (and is fascinating from a production standpoint and how much effort they put in to keep the nazi from killing anyone...) but Person of Interest wasn't some dystopic future. It was, if anything, underestimating what is already possible.
So... here is hoping that ridiculously handsome G went straight to the airport and flew to a non extradition treaty country. Probably didn't though and is probably going to get picked up at a bus station.
Also: For all the gun nuts who think you rae going to use your closet full of AR-15s to scream "WILDCATS" and fight off the fascists or invaders or whatever? They'll have access to those cameras too and will be able to figure out what house or cave you are hiding in and send a few drones. So... yeah
Unless he fled the country he was always going to be caught
Eh. Read up on some of the other big mysteries (stuff like The Somerton Man). Every few years someone who has made it their career/identify has some irrefutable evidence that is either refuted or determined to not be that unique. Or it has been solved for decades but nobody cared enough to make it official and the people writing books/doing talk shows benefit from a "mystery".
And in this case? McCoy had already been arrested for a similar crime and is long dead. Nobody really cared to keep searching.
But also? We have a LOT more cameras these days and a LOT more ability to process that data without human intervention.
Also, just to make it clear: even if the shooter escaped the country, they are going to be identified (flying on a fake ID is a lot harder and you can bet all the passengers are being checked against the pictures). But it won't be US cops that catch him (probably just as dead if he doesn't completely disappear though).
If the FBI and the NYPD don't have the footage they need within 1 week, their ability to catch the right guy will diminish, as CCTV feeds from across the country get overwritten. If the suspect can grow and keep facial hair it would probably be difficult to match against these images. They could request some from the bus centers in Atlanta, New York and every stop in between but there's only so much footage they'll be able to get their hands on, this person seems to know what they were doing and staying less identifiable in public.
Those facial features could absolutely also be a mask. They're very exaggerated
The boot lickers licking some boot
Just need to keep calling in with bogus tips. Say we saw him across the country.
I seent him in Bogota! I swears it!
That guy is Spartacus!
Run, Forrest, RUN!