GoFundMe for Uber Eats Driver Allegedly Murdered by 13- and 15-Year-Old Girls Surpasses $1M. It feels like the 1980s.
The Uber Eats” murder
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Razib Khan
Razib Khan is a Bangladeshi-American geneticist and writer. He is co-founder of Brown Pundits and runs Unsupervised Learning, a Substack on population genetics, evolution, history, and politics with more than 55,000 subscribers, alongside the accompanying podcast. He has blogged at Gene Expression since the early 2000s. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Review, Slate, India Today, Quillette, and UnHerd. He is Director of Operations at FUTO in Austin, Texas, and co-founder of GenRAIT, a life-sciences platform company. Earlier in his career he developed ancestry algorithms for Gene by Gene, the Genographic Project, and Insitome, and was among the first employees at Embark Veterinary. Born in Dhaka and raised in upstate New York and eastern Oregon, he holds degrees in biochemistry (2000) and biology (2006) from the University of Oregon, and undertook doctoral work in genomics and genetics at UC Davis. He lives in Austin. View all posts by Razib Khan
What’s the law for juvenile crimes in the US? In India, these teens would left off after a 4 year stint in a reform home. The 4 years is not incarceration but a typical residential school with reskilling and adjustment.
@Ugra: In most states, juveniles may be charged and sentenced as adults for particularly heinous offenses. But, in 2012, the United States Supreme Court ruled (Miller v. Alabama) that mandatory life-without-parole sentences are unconstitutional when the perpetrator was less than 18 when he committed the crime.
Beyond that, different States have different rules. This crime was committed in Washington D.C. where the law is that juveniles may be sentenced to long prison terms as punishment for serious crimes or multiple charges, but a prisoner who has served at least 20 years for a crime committed as a juvenile may be paroled.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/a-state-by-state-look-at-juvenile-life-without-parole/
@Walter Sobchak….thanks, it is quite harsh in comparison.
I contributed – it could have been any of our uncles or fathers.
What shocked me was the girl looking for her phone at the end while the poor guy is dying and no one is helping.
Did this kind of thing happen a lot in the 1980s? I’ve read about the “dotbusters” of New Jersey but thought they were into property damage (like trashing convenience stores run by desis) rather than murder.
the 80s had a lot of violent crime. period. mugging and murder was much more common. still not that bad…
For real. Did anyone NOT get their car stolen in the 80s/early 90s?
@ Razib: http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm
The rates peaked in the 80s, started to decline in the 90s, returned to 1960 levels in the 00s, started to go back up in the Teens. My guess is that 2020 marked a sharp jump and that by 2025, we will be back at crisis levels.