How... how did he think this was going to turn out? You fake your death, then run to mommy & daddy's house, and hope no one finds you? And just keep the cash?
Lots of criminals that are smart get caught, because even smart people fuck up sometime. When some smart guy fucks up at his e-commerce site probably there just has to be a code rollback and maybe a talking to, if a smart criminal fucks up it's probably the cops come calling.
A cop once told me "Criminals almost always get caught because of probability. The vast majority of criminals don't commit just one crime, so chances are, they will eventually get caught. To never get caught, they have to get lucky every time. I only need to get lucky once."
You met a cop who actually catches criminals? Joking aside, probability works both ways and if the police don't actually do anything about crime, low level theft etc then those criminals will never get caught.
you don't do anything about low level theft because you will catch those criminals in the act at some point, rather than investigating after the fact which takes lots of resources, and then the system will take into account that most criminals have committed many crimes before being caught.
Doubt it is plenty. Because it either means you need to fly under the radar for the rest of your life (never cross borders, never be stopped, never use a bank account etc) or you need to manage to create a new identity which in itself is not very easy.
> Criminals, by and large, are stupid. They don't think it through. They just do stuff.
I guess the typical reply is that we mostly know about the stupid ones who get caught. But it would depend on the crime types, I guess. With some crimes, if the person is really meticulous and clever, chances are also they probably managed to make their business legitimate, like they just become a politician, and get their gains from lobbying and writing "books" instead of running cryptocoin scams.
Jacques Philippa, a member of the SS, spent 29 years in the attic of his parents after the second world war to escape his death penalty. He was only found out because his mother died and elderly father could no longer take care of him.
It seems the main difference is that Philippa spent most of this timed confined to the attic rather than just walk around outside assuming no one would find him. Or trading his crypto assuming no one would notice.
There's not planning a crime to the last detail, then there's faking your death without even thinking about how you're going to keep people from finding out that you're not dead.
I took my first Waymo trip this past weekend. I will be using it every time from now on.
I try to take an actual taxi (Flywheel) whenever possible, because Uber and Lyft feel... I dunno, exploitative to me. But my last 3-4 cab rides have been annoying and/or terrifying. One cabby stopped in the middle of a busy intersection to check directions. Another cabby got lost the minute I got into the cab, and I had to guide him. Then he kept peppering me with personal questions. Another cabby tried to convert me to Islam...
Waymo was quiet. Obeyed traffic signals. Took a rather tricky backroad to get to my apartment, and navigated it flawlessly. Tried to convert me to the Cylon god.
I'm gonna root for the robots on this one, I'm afraid.
