"But... even if I know this, it's useless. I need evidence! I can't go directly to it, right? They won't admit it." Tony actually agreed with Jessica's guess deep down, but there was a problem.
It’s useless to guess!
I can't find anyone, I can't find anything, and it's useless to say anything.
"Haha, you are an outsider. There are never any silent movements in this world. As long as you come here, you will definitely leave traces. The key is whether you are willing to make up your mind to investigate!"
This is true. There is never a perfect crime in this world, let alone a real unsolved case! The only thing that limits finding the truth is always off-site factors! Especially the resources invested!
As long as you are willing to invest, there is nothing that cannot be discovered.
For example, the world's famous unsolved case - Jack the Ripper!
Jack the Ripper was a notorious serial killer in London, England, at the end of the 19th century. He committed a series of brutal murders in Whitechapel in 1888 and was never caught. To this day, Jack the Ripper's identity remains
An unsolved mystery that has triggered a lot of speculation and research.
Could it be that the Ripper really did it flawlessly? Or could he fly and escape?
However, the fact is... this case was not taken seriously at all! On August 7, 1888, a tragedy occurred near Whitechapel in the East End of London. The murderer killed at least five women in a brutal manner. However, the authorities did not pay much attention...
...After all, it was a prostitute who died. At that time, the murder of prostitutes was actually a common and not taken seriously. Who cares about those dirty prostitutes?
Until September 25, 1888, the Central News Agency received a letter written in red ink and stamped with fingerprints, signed "Jack the Ripper." The letter stated in a joking manner that he was the murderer, and claimed that he had been arrested before
He would continue to kill more women. After that, the murderer repeatedly wrote letters to relevant units to provoke him, but he was never brought to justice. His bold crime methods were repeatedly exaggerated by the media and caused panic in British society at that time.
But even so, the police actually didn't pay much attention.
First of all, the thinking of the whole people at that time was like that. Prostitutes did not receive much sympathy. At that time, no one cared about women's rights, let alone prostitutes, so the police could not waste their own resources for such a thing... In their view
, Prostitutes are like weeds. No matter how many times they die, there will be no change. Anyway, the next crop will appear soon.
Secondly... Dai Ying. Not to mention back then, even the current Dai Ying and their policemen have very tight hips. Don't believe that those foreign police officers can have any idea of pledging life for the people, it is impossible!
The modern police system originated in the United Kingdom. The earliest police agency in the world was the Metropolitan Police Department in the United Kingdom, commonly known as "Scotland Yard." This new agency was not a response to the increase in crime rates, nor did it bring new methods of dealing with crime.
Before and after the invention of the police, the most common way to solve crimes was through testimony. Furthermore, originally "crime" referred to individual behavior, and the ruling class that invented the police intended to deal with the challenges posed by collective action. In short
In other words: The police were formed in response to large provocative crowds. These included: strikes in England; riots in the North of the United States; and the threat of slave revolts in the South. So the police force was invented to target the people—not crime.
reaction. I will focus on who these people were and how they became such a challenge to the ruling class. We will see that in addition to the growth of polarization in urban society, another difficulty faced by the rulers was the previous challenge to workers
The collapse of individual methods of supervision. During those decades, the state stepped in to fill the social gap. In the American North, as we will see, the invention of the police was only part of the state's day-to-day work of managing and shaping workers. Government also expanded
A system of poor relief was established to regulate the labor market, and a system of public education was established to regulate the minds of workers. I will talk about these later in relation to the police, but mainly the police in London, New York, Charleston (South Carolina) and
The development of Philadelphia.
In other words, the birth of the Western police was fundamentally for suppression. At that time, with the rise of capitalism, more and more things were produced for sale on the market. The losers in market competition began to lose their independence as producers and became employees.
Labor. But in a place like Britain, the biggest force pushing people to find wage work was state-sanctioned, the enclosure movement that drove farmers off the land. As farmers became refugees from the countryside, towns continued to
As inequality grew within the cities, the bourgeoisie became a social class more distinct from the workers than ever before. The market was having a persecuting effect on the solidarity of the craft guilds... The workshops became bigger than ever.
, a single English boss might command dozens of workers. This was the mid-1700s, a period before real factory industrialization began.
There was still no police force at this time, but the wealthier classes began to use increasing violence to suppress the poor. Sometimes the military was ordered to shoot at rebellious crowds, and sometimes police officers arrested leaders and hanged them.
The class struggle began to heat up, but when the Industrial Revolution began in Britain, things really started to change.
At the same time, the French were going through their own political and social revolution, beginning in 1789. The British ruling class reacted by panicking about the possibility of British workers learning from the French, so they banned trade unions and meetings of more than fifty people.
However, from 1792 to 1820, British workers still organized increasingly large demonstrations and strikes. The ruling class responded by sending in the army. But the army could only do two things, and both of them were terrible:
They refuse to shoot and the crowd gets away with it; or they can shoot into the crowd and produce working-class martyrs.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! This is exactly what happened in Manchester in 1819. Soldiers were sent to attack a crowd of 80,000 people, resulting in hundreds of injuries and eleven deaths. This time it was called
The massacre for Petro did not subdue the crowds, but triggered a wave of strikes and demonstrations. Even the time-honored strategy of hanging leaders of the movement began to backfire. A suspenseful act would have had an intimidating effect on a hundred spectators, but
The crowds now numbered as many as 50,000 supporters of the executioners, and the news only made them want to fight more. The growth of British cities, and the growth of social polarization within them, these two quantitative changes have begun to produce essentially new outbreaks of struggle.
.The ruling class needed new institutions to control these struggles. One of these was the London Police, established in 1829, just a decade after the Petros Massacre. The new police force was specifically designed to inflict non-lethal violence on crowds,
Avoid creating martyrs while disbanding the crowd. Any organized group that engages in daily violence will kill some people, but for every police murder, there are hundreds or thousands of non-fatal acts of police brutality—calculated in
What kind of violence can be used to create intimidation while avoiding an angry collective response.
While London police officers occasionally assemble into squads for crowd control, they are dispersed across the city to police the daily lives of the poor and working class. This generally presents the unique dual function of the modern police: carrying out operations in the name of preventing crime.
Distributed surveillance and intimidation; centralized handling of strikes, riots and mass demonstrations. That’s why the police were invented - to deal with people.
So... you expect a group of police officers who are born to suppress the people to spend a lot of energy investigating a killer who kills prostitutes?
What good things are you thinking about?
Unless those five women are particularly aristocratic women.
Obviously not.
In addition, people at that time liked to read strange news...especially suspenseful news. You must know that suspense novels originated from that era.
Therefore, the more mysterious and curious the writing is, the more people will pay attention to it.
Can the Ripper be caught? Of course he can be caught. Even if there are not many criminal investigation methods, it is not that difficult to catch a murderer who leaves countless clues at the scene. Unfortunately, no one is willing to do this. Or even
Legend has it that those five women were not prostitutes at all, but the main force in the women's protest strike at that time. They were assassinated and then labeled as prostitutes... What is the truth? It has been a hundred years and no one can say, but there is
One thing is certain, the police and the government at that time had no intention of making great efforts to investigate.
After talking so much, it’s just the same sentence. There is no so-called perfect crime in this world. It just depends on whether you are determined to investigate.
In fact, the same is true for modern police. Are there really cases that cannot be solved?
The answer is no, but the police simply cannot take care of it. There is no way. Do you know how many cases happen every day in this world? How many police officers are there? What they can do is to solve the cases that can be solved as soon as possible, not
Sticking to one case. In fact, there are few police officers in the world who will devote all their energy to one case and ignore everything else... This is both a waste of resources and dereliction of duty!
After all, there is no difference in human life. If someone dies in your family, the police will investigate, but if someone else dies... then they won't care?
This is a very real problem... If the case cannot be found out in a short time, the police will really put it on hold... This is not a matter of incompetence, but there are only so many resources, and it is impossible to stick to one case.
Are there real police officers who are obsessed with a case like those in movies and TV shows?
have!
It is true that some police officers will follow a case for many years until they can solve it. But please note that this does not mean that the police officer will not do anything else. He can only take time out of work to continue the investigation.
, and cannot crowd out other cases.
Otherwise, the people will not agree and the police will not agree.
Therefore, there are very few policemen like this, because there are no real criminal policemen who are not busy. The daily work is enough to tire people to death, and then they use their pitiful energy and time to investigate cases... This kind of people need great perseverance!
Ordinary police really can't come.
So such police officers are certainly respectable, but you cannot require all police officers to be like this. If they were, the entire police system would probably collapse.
The police are exhausted.
The reason why Jessica said this was to see if Tony was willing to part with him. As long as he was willing to go out and spend resources, Jessica could guarantee that he would be able to find him.
Is Tony willing to let it go?
joke!
How could Tony be reluctant to let go?
For Tony, wealth is really just a number. Tens of billions more or less has no impact on him at all! He doesn't need to bother thinking about so-called business interests now. Because Stark Group has become a super alliance
body.
It is already too big to fail!
The United States at this stage is completely different from the United States in the real world.
At this stage, the United States is not the world hegemon, and the hegemony of the US dollar has also fallen. Although the US dollar is the most important international currency, its irreplaceability has disappeared. This will inevitably lead to a fundamental change in the economic structure of the US political arena.
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This has also resulted in the Stark Group's status in the United States being comparable to Samsung!
The White House and Congress represented by Benjamin are actually not satisfied with this form. But being dissatisfied does not mean that they can destroy this pattern. At least until the United States slows down, this pattern cannot be changed.
Once turmoil does occur, the United States itself cannot afford it!
This is too big to fail!
Therefore, the actual profitability of the Stark Group is supported by the entire United States, and they need this economic engine.
In this case, as long as you are not a fool, you can make money without spending much energy at all.
On the contrary, the most important thing for the United States now is that the Stark Group needs to spend money!
Spend a lot of money!
To put it bluntly, the economy is flow.
If you don't move, you're doomed. So as long as Tony is willing to spend money, no matter what he does, the government will support him.
So he doesn't need to care about those numbers.
Under such circumstances, it is strange that he would care about wasting resources!
"Che, I'll give you whatever you want!"
For Tony, face is much more important than money!
"That's no problem."
Jessica never thought of using the resources of the police department from the beginning. First of all, Tony didn't report the crime. If he didn't report the crime, there would be no case. If there was no case, the New York police wouldn't want to waste time with Tony Stark.
In fact, the police are particularly reluctant to have a relationship with a high-ranking person like Tony. If it is a personal relationship, of course it is fine. But once it involves official business, it will be very troublesome. Because the reason is very simple, you can fight Tony
Can a person be a simple person?
Maybe that person wasn't a problem to Tony, but he definitely had no problem dealing with little policemen like them.
Just like this case.
It involves the government...how do you want the police to investigate?
It would be really offensive to check it or not.
Tony is not afraid, but the police department is.
Another thing, this case requires a lot of resources at first glance, but the benefits are not necessarily much. If you get into it, you will spend resources and make sacrifices, and there may be no benefit at all in the end... Who can survive after eating enough?
