Zed A. Shaw, Painter

The police claim it was hundreds, but even *they* felt it was enough evidence to do a photo lineup but witnesses couldn't identify him from photos (months later only seeing from a distance, duh). They just said he couldn't be him because he's a republican law student.

Ok. So you’ve got hundreds of suspects. How many man hours does it take, in that era, per suspect? In what order do you dig through them?

Pacific Northwest cops have a very long history of ignoring serial killers. You can't sit here and tell me they are good at their job after Ted Bundy, Green River, and Pickton. All of them operated for years, decades, after being identified, because cops think like you.

I don't think it's in question whether the closing rate qualifies as "good at their job", but like, if you've got four guys and 20,000 man hours of work it's not a job that's going to be done very well.

Watch the documentary. They had huge rooms, full of officers, from multiple counties, probably about 50 officers all working on this and it was a top top top priority. They screwed up. Plain and simple.

Ok! See, that’s how you can convince me.

I find it weird I have to convince you that the police are incompetent.

I come from computer security, where as bad as people are at writing code, they're even worse at critiquing it.