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Police Using YouTube to Catch Killers
Accommodate Students writes "The BBC is reporting on Greater Manchester police's attempts to use YouTube to catch the killers of the 15 year old, Jessie James. The video features a message from Jessie's mother Barbara Reid and sister Rosemary. BBC radio news has said this is the first time the police force have used YouTube in this way to catch criminals." Update: 10/08 07:40 GMT by Z : Sorry, misunderstood the situation. Thanks for the clarification.
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The simple fact that a 15 year old boy getting shot gets such media attention in Britain (when compared to similar events in America) is noteworthy. Sure, the USA is a far larger country, but even at a State level you don't really see the same kind of news reporting when it comes to these kind of shootings.
Other than the obvious and regrettably tragedy of the situation, why is this case noteworthy?
Well, in some countries, like the UK, there aren't so many murders everyday throughout the year that the populace has lost all sense of empathy when a human life is taken. All it takes is for there to be an unusual circumstance and it will become big news.
I guess in some other countries, where bizzare murders and school/work shootings happen all the time and people are bored of it, people would rather hear about Angela Jolie and Brad Pitt.
A large percentage of murder has a motive, and the killer and victim know each other. This case is particularly heinous for these reasons:
1. The victim apparently didn't know the killers
2. He was apparently chosen solely based on race
3. The killers are still at large, and there's no reason to believe that they wouldn't do this again
People don't think too much when drug dealers are killing each other, because most of us don't hang out with that crowd and aren't really affected by it. That's why a killing like this brings in much more attention.
Do you have ESP?
You would not consider it newsworthy in the States because it's not a middle class caucasian girl and is not being shown around the clock on CNN.
(This is not flamebait. Think about it for a second)
This is apparently related to the hatespeak-related jailing we discussed on Saturday.
Jesse James != Anthony Walker. The only way they are related is that both murder victims are black.
Other than the obvious and regrettably tragedy of the situation, why is this case noteworthy?
What did Stalin say, "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic"? So how this particular case different than the thousands of others who die regularly? I dont know but that sure is a shitty way to look at the world.
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. - Paul Feyerabend
It is all relative, so it really depends on where you live. If you live in Southern California, they might not even bother mentioning any murders save for the really sensational ones... But you are talking about a metro area (SoCal) with more people (24 million) then all of Australia(20 million)... I doubt Australias national news news reports on Perths murders (except for the really sensational ones), but I could be wrong.
.75 million, all murders definitely make the news (as do the followups on who, what, when, and what the sentence was).
If you live in a smaller metro like here in Grand Rapids/Western MI a metro of about
It is all about scale my friend.
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