Not only that, but she continued to make purchases! For all the dumb things she did prior to that contact (using her own addresses and a phone that's trivially associated with her), continuing to make buys while you know damn well you're being watched is just breathtakingly stupid. I don't get it.
You appear as if you are cooperating fully, and innocent (because a guilty person who knows they are being investigated stops doing the illegal thing).
If it was the housekeeper doing the crime, they wouldn't know bout the investigation so they would keep criming.
Since you don't know how long you've been monitored prior to learning of the investigation you don't want to suddenly change the routine either... Same reasoning as the first point.
The only real move you have is to hope hope the evidence points at the housekeeper and the frame-up tricks the investigators.
Im not saying i agree with any of the above, but it's the type of reasoning behind the actions.
There are two ways this can play out for the accused: (1) The misdirection works and she's off scot-free, or (2) it fails, and she's in roughly the same amount of trouble as she would have been had she not continued making the purchases.
Thanks.
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My father was a cop in Oakland in the '70s... He resigned after he witnessed OPD murder several people.
His famous quote was "Once you're looking for 'bad' everywhere - pretty soon, thats all you can see'"
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When I grew up in the 80s in Lake Tahoe (we moved from Oakland to Tahoe in 1979) -- the cops were known to have been outcasts from San Jose CA for being the worst offenders, and were pushed back to Tahoe as 'punishment' (in the same way that Catholic priests are 'punished')...
We knew that the Tahoe cops were jerks, and it was widely known they were all San Jose rejects...
Anyway, I got caught in a bit of legal trouble in 7th grade (was taking boats out for joy rides and leaving them on beaches)...
And the 'detective' who found me was later found out as being on Escobar's pay roll....
In the 1980s, Escobar was flying in tons of cocaine to truckee and south lake tahoe, and this cop, and the dad of a kid I went to school with were the guys who were funneling all that coke to Vegas and Reno...
https://oaklandside.org/2023/03/27/murder-conviction-overtur...
A department with bored, but honest, cops will be pretty safe - and stay boring. Albeit with annoyances like traffic rules being enforced.
A department with criminals running it will do what the criminals need, including murdering whoever they need to.
If they’re smart, maybe it means the other criminals steer clear?
They are extremely paranoid when hiring - especially “experienced” officers who often turn out to be rejects.
Recently the BLM folks were able to get a big say in police hiring.
They’ve been demanding more Black officers.
It’s hard to get any officers at all, and the city doesn’t have many Black residents.
So they’ve been pushing to change the rules about hiring officers with “previous experience” - basically turning “previous experience” from a negative to a positive.
> So they’ve been pushing to change the rules about hiring officers with “previous experience” - basically turning “previous experience” from a negative to a positive.
It's crazy. You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of reality.
We are saying her crimes are made worse by her police adjacency
Police union interests are aligned with the interests of drug cartels and other grave threats to society, for each keeps the other relevant.
I'm not sure if the reasoning is fairly complex, or boils down to a couple factors, a few I can name:
1. People inflate their lifestyles to depend on crime income, and the financial situation doesn't exactly improve when they get caught; you get new expenses
2. Pathology... ie. they just can't help themselves. If you've known a klepto, or pathological liar, you know they are often addicted. It's bizarre to see behaviors like stealing in the same way as drug addiction, but they can be.
3. They simply think they'll get away with it. Good chance they thought they wouldn't get caught in the first place. So now they just got to tweak the method, or figure it will take the same amount of time to catch up with them; by then they'll be out of it (and in prison)
You can see this kind of thing with white collar crime and almost everything. Even with sex criminals. There was a guy that committed many sex assaults by intentionally attempting to infect w/HIV, through deception... (said he was using protection). Kept doing it after getting caught.
Guess it doesn't make sense to question why a criminal would act like a criminal.