Mike Masnick ✅Apr 13, 2023

So for over a week now Elon Musk's circle of friends have been going on and on insisting that Bob Lee's killer was obviously an unhoused individual and blaming the city for not jailing more people.

Now, it turns out that the guy who killed him was another tech exec who knew him, and they were originally in a car together.

https://missionlocal.org/2023/04/bob-lee-killing-arrest-made-san-francisco/

Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee — tech exec’s alleged killer also worked in tech

Mission Local is told that San Francisco police this morning arrested a suspect, Nima Momeni, in the April 4 killing of tech exec Bob Lee.

Mission Local
Show threadDarwinApr 13, 2023
@mmasnick Thanks for sharing this. I, too, wrongly assumed it was a random attack indicative of SF’s current problems. As someone planning to move back to the Bay Area soon, I’m glad to hear this wasn’t the case.
Show threadmathew

@darwinrz @mmasnick Murders are predominantly committed by someone known to the victim. I found some example stats here:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/195327/murder-in-the-us-by-relationship-of-victim-to-offender/

5,885 known to the victim, vs 1,509 strangers.

Then there are the people murdered by police, but it doesn't get counted as such because of qualified immunity. Homicide risk for Black males is around 37 fatalities per 100,000 people, for men and boys the risk of being killed by police is about 52 per 100,000.

https://crim.sas.upenn.edu/fact-check/what-are-chances-becoming-homicide-victim

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1821204116

So statistically you should be worried about police, then people you know. Strangers are a distant third.

Murder - number of felonies by relationship of victim to offender 2022 | Statista

In 2022 in the United States, 13 people were murdered by their employer.

Statista
Apr 13, 2023 at 4:41pmWeb