The thing is if they sincerely believed he was the shooter and thought he was carrying around evidence to prove it they would have done everything completely above board to the letter of the law to leave absolutely no room for "technicalities" and instead it's more like they've gone out of their way to ensure there's mountains of reasonable doubt and inadmissible bullshit
They might actually believe their own bullshit smells like roses on this one. A lot of police framings come from a deep and sincere belief in police departments that defense attorneys are all lying snakes who exist to let people the police know are guilty go free. So they will come to believe somebody is guilty on spurious evidence or circumstantial evidence, and know that there's no way it will get a conviction in court, and rather than just thinking of this as how the justice system works, they will then concoct evidence to meet what they think of as a bullshit standard they have no respect for in court.
So maybe they solicited tips and checked surveillance footage on a city of 10 million odd people, and found one person who looks kind of similar and is wearing a similar jacket to the person who did the killing. (Luigi probably wasn't the only suspect they found either.) So they start digging into his background and they find out that the guy had medical problems and dropped off the crate and stopped speaking to his family a while back.
Which is, I cannot emphasize this enough, not unusual to find somebody like that in a city of 10 million people! The population of people who have medical issues or family with medical issues, who have some secondary factor in their life which makes them look suspicious under scrutiny, is probably the majority of people. You may not have dropped off the grid recently, but you probably have some posts about posts on social media or political books on goodreads or recently bought a gun or lost a loved one or got laid off or passed over for promotion or something that could be seen as corroborating circumstantial evidence for unexpected violent activity.
But for all that we have media, both fictional and non-fictional, that reinforce the impression of the intellectual investigator cop, that's just not how it works in practice. Cops very often start with a population of suspects and then narrow it down with this kind of circumstantial information. And there are so many studies on how doing investigation this way leads to a false sense of surety. When you take a population of suspects and then narrow it down, it feels like successful investigative work even when you've only uncovered information which wouldn't be convincing at all if presented in its totality at the beginning of a case. Cops have a terrible habit of thinking that their best lead is the perpetrator, no matter how terrible that lead actually is.
But they are self-aware enough and experienced enough with the judicial system to know that that won't convict Luigi. And the NYPD has a long history of planting evidence. They literally forged city documents once to falsely convict eight people of murder. 8! They got enough people on board with that to forge city documents! And that's just what they've been caught doing! And more importantly, there were no consequences for this!
So you have an incredibly high profile case which is making them all look like buffoons, with every politician and oligarch in one of the business hubs of the world breathing down their necks to wrap this case up, and they stumbled upon a guy who looks kind of like their suspect and maybe has a motive and a circumstantial piece of evidence, and it doesn't really matter that almost everybody in America has the same motive and some circumstantial piece of evidence. So they spend a few days hyping themselves up about it, and also probably talking about what they're going to do if they don't find any extra evidence when they catch the guy. Or maybe they catch him and don't find that evidence and they have a talk on the way back to the station about it.
Cuz they know it's him. They're probably so damn sure. This is extremely normal in police investigations, this is very common. And if you're a cop who "knows" somebody is guilty of murder, but you also believe that they're not going to be punished because of some lickspittle justice system which is always trying to keep cops down...
Yeah they might have really believed they got the right guy and planted the evidence.
Edit: Oh and if you think this was really stupid of them because surely it would come out, just remember that they have historically gotten away with this fairly often, and also that cops who are convinced they have the right person are very likely going to believe that more evidence will come out once they have the person in custody and can dig as deep as they want. Especially because a lot of cops believe that coercively extracted confessions are real, so you've got a lot of times who have experience thinking someone is a suspect, faking evidence to get them in custody, and then being "right". And then also they are going to hear similar stories from their coworkers, just with the evidence planting edited out or sidelined.
Cops don't trust a fake evidence because they know they're wrong, they think evidence because they think they're right.
Shit like this can really only happen in Europe. Reminds me of the time I took my best shot at ordering at a restaurant in Spain in spanish. The closest language to spanish that I actually speak is latin.
Waiter: Germany?
Me: No, Czechia.
Waiter, in a heavily accented but intelligible Czech: Why didn’t you say so before! We get you guys here all the time!
Já v roce 2019 na Ukrajině: OK, takže když použiju tohle staročeský slovo, přidám polský sloveso, své chabé znalosti záhoráčtiny a řeknu to s ruskym přízvukem, tak to projde.
[Me in 2019 in Ukraine: ok so if i use this Old Czech word, add a Polish verb, my poor knowledge of the Záhorie dialect of Slovak and say it with a Russian accent, it might pass]
Reminds me of the time when we were in Poland and I tried to order a burger using a truly unholy mix of Slovak, Russian and Ostrava dialect (which in itself is like an unholy mix of Czech and Polish).
I know Ukrainians who can do this on purpose and masterfully, and it was mind-blowing to hear a speech as immediately understandable to an audience of native speakers of three different native Slavic languages, not just two languages as is common
During one student exchange I (a Pole) got acquainted with two students from Czechia and Russia. At first we talked in English or German, but after a while we’ve noticed, that we could understand each other’s native languages just fine. And if some word was unknown in one language, another one had the right synonym.
*Each of us talking in their mother tongue*
Me: Bla bla bla.
Russian: I don’t know this “bla”.
Czech: Oh, we have “bla”! We also call it “that”!
Russian: Oh I know “that”! It’s a very old version of “this”.
Me: Oh, we have “this” too, but it means something slightly different.
German acquaintance: Was für nen Scheiß zieht ihr da ab? o_O
the reason there aren't slavic people in the bible is that they wouldn't have been surprised or awed to hear the disciples speak in tongues and be understood by people of many nations at once
As a non-native speaker of Czech who is only conversationally proficient and has terrible grammar, let me tell you, no one was more surprised than I was to discover that I can understand Slovak just fine. And when the two moving guys finished hauling my furniture to my new apartment and we were chatting a bit before they left, I discovered that the reason I'd had a little trouble understanding one of their "accents" was because he was speaking Ukrainian the whole time.
it bears repeating in a more gentle manner but in the nicest way possible, there is a really issue with discrepancy when you talk about issues happening in different countries. when it’s anti-trans/gay laws in north america and western europe, it becomes “genocide”. when other countries, like mine, have jail and death penalties for being gay explicitly, it becomes a matter of “oh it’s illegal there” and sometimes, insidiously, “that’s just how they are, they’re less progressive.” and i need you all to know this is white supremacy talking and i, a gay person living in a country under the threat of death penalty, am as much of a victim as you are.
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After months of research and development and market testing and perfecting the first item I feel confident selling online, I have realized... that it is an incredibly niche item that only a specific subset of absolute nerds would want to buy, and I will have to do a ton of explaining the basic idea over and over again before people generally get what it is I'm even selling. RIP me
Long story short: I'm selling embroidery patterns. You stick them on fabric, embroider them, and wash the pattern away to leave your embroidery shining in solitary splendour.
Long story long... here goes.
I'm disabled, and I play in the Society for Creative Anachronism, which does historical re-enactment. I have been showing up to SCA events as a merchant, setting out a table with all the stuff I've made, veils and hats and hairnets and stuff, trying to get people to buy it. It's been really useful to get feedback on what I'm selling, but not particularly lucrative, so I'm always trying to find something new to make.
The downside is, sitting at a booth exacerbates my chronic pain enough that I generally have to leave the events about halfway through, and trying to do the handsewing that makes things look properly medievalish made nerves in my arms go on strike. So I have been trying to find ways to make things that aren't as physically demanding, and that will be easy to ship if I sell them online.
Thus: Computerized embroidery patterns printed onto special paper. I've got about 20 patterns now, and the advice for Etsy sellers is to post new items every day or two, which I'm doing.
When it comes to embroidery, I really love what another artist in my city is doing, creating stick-and-stitch embroidery patterns with dissolvable interfacing. You slap it on an item of clothing, stitch the pattern, then wash the pattern away, leaving only your embroidery. It's a good on-ramp for people who are new to the craft.
There is a historical form of needlework called Blackwork, which was popular in Tudor England (1485-1601), which means it's in the right time period for a lot of Renaissance Faires and Shakespeare companies. People showed off by having these intricate geometric designs stitched into their clothes.
In our modern times, embroidery done by hand is usually just for display purposes, so people tend to use stiff cloth woven to make the grid the pattern maps onto as easy to follow as possible. Unfortunately, that stuff is coarse, so people often end up trying to fit one row of stiff embroidery fabric onto a shirt or smock that's otherwise made of fabric that's comfortable to wear, which is awkward.
So my galaxy-brain idea became: Blackwork patterns on sticky dissolvable interfacing! Instead of trying to find the grid in the thread, you could just take this interfacing with the grid and pattern already laid out and slap it on top of your cloth! (I like to make shirts out of soft old cotton sateen bedsheets that have split down the middle. Almost impossible to find a grid in, but totally embroiderable using this method.)
I have been working on this project with almost every productive hour I have. At first I worked with blackwork wizard Kim Salazar to make licensed prints of her patterns, and then I started drafting patterns of my own. I'm honestly proud of these.
But when I take a step back? Oh my god, talk about niche. I have a target audience of basically the nerdiest among nerds (except for the half of those that think using my patterns is "cheating"). I also have no budget for advertising or sponsorships, so that's fun. Maybe I need to spend the next month thinking about products that do not have such niche appeal.
So yeah! Uh... follow my Etsy shop and Instagram for updates? And if you've read this far, use the coupon code SUPERNERD40 before July 4, 2023 to get 40% off whatever I end up selling!
I love this idea!!!! Makes the prospect of doing black work embroidery seem so much less daunting! Ive got nothing to put it on atm but good to know that this shop is out there!
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