Crime: Why does anyone even bother?

[welsummerchicks]

Why does anyone even TRY to commit a crime? We just watched a program on forensic techniques - and this program is 13 years old! It doesn't even have many of the newer more refined techniques! I think the techniques are so advanced that committing a crime, the only thing it can involve is - ignorance.

Why does anyone even bother, LOL!

We who were watching agreed that people often seem to think that an isolated, or poorly supervised neighborhoods with little police coverage, might cover their tracks...but...just...we still fail to see why people think they are going to get away with it!

 

[Robin'sBrood]

I've often wondered the same thing. Then you get someone who thinks they're so smart and premeditates murder, like the OH vs. Essa case that was just on In Session. "Brainiac" doctor thinks he can lace calcium pills with cyanide, kill his wife by giving her two of the calcium pills as she is about to leave the house (so she would have a car accident, and possibly kill other innocent people!) but her accident is so minor that there is no way it could have killed her. Cyanide is discovered in her body and the calcium pills are still in his house. Long story short, he gets convicted and sentenced to life. Wouldn't if have just been better to divorce his wife, even if it was messy and nasty?

Now his two young children are motherless, and everyone knows their father is a scumbag murderer.

 

[pdsavage]

But we also have so many unsolved crimes,people do get away with it.
http://www.unsolvedcrimes.com/

 

[welsummerchicks]

Even if there are some unsolved crimes, the statistics just do not really support the decision, LOL!

 

[Ridgerunner]

Believing anything you see on TV is like believing what you read on Craigslist about the show-winning grand champion chickens available for sale real cheap. I consider that real risky. This is just as true for "documentaries" as for the fictional shows.

A huge issue is cost. A lot of those tests are expensive and take a lot of time to run. Most police jurisdictions have to decide which cases they are going to spend their precious manpower and money on. Many jurisdictions do not have the expensive equipment to run those tests themselves. They have to sent the stuff off to back-logged state or federal labs and pay a lot of money to get those tests run. Just because the tests are available does not mean they are going to be used.

Some people that commit crimes often think they are invincible. They consider themselvers so special that they can get away with anything. Having dealt with a lot of teenagers, many think they are bullet-proof, never realizing there could be consequences for their actions. Most mature but some remain "special" in their own minds all their lives.

I agree it is not worth the risk, but a few of my opinions on why.

 

[annie3001]

good question! there are so many crime shows on tv, that show "you will get caught" etc.etc.etc.
and then there is others that will get "away with it".

 

[welsummerchicks]

I was not just going on the tv show - I looked up cdc statistics on murders/victems of violent crimes vs convictions for murders nationwide.

 

[A.T. Hagan]

Even for the most serious crimes such as murder there is an appallingly high unsolved rate.

 

[SpringChickens]

I agree. They show those forensic shows on TV for entertainment only - they only remotely mirror what happens in real life.

 

[theoldchick]

For sure. My hubby is in law enforcement and does not like to watch CSI and so forth. They are so fake. Many of the devices portrayed on TV do not exist or are so expensive nobody can afford them. Takes my husband as long as 2 months to get DNA results. But hey, those shows are fun to watch.