“I really did not see what was wrong with this matter, how did you judge it?”
Hogan smiled slightly: “They did this scene, the script is quite well thought out,”
“But the director and actors’ choreography is still a bit clumsy,”
“To put it bluntly without the key details, you write the script with no key details,”
“That person looking at it with interest can certainly see the flaw.”
Said this and continued, “It’s like people are saying that there is no real perfect crime in the world,”
“But in my opinion, although it can not do absolute perfection,”
“But can do it with relative perfection, as long as the killer’s heart,”
“Then all the police are fine, then even if his crime does not reach absolute perfection, it will not be found.”
Charlie nodded with an educated face, and couldn’t help but ask with great curiosity,
“Uncle Chen, how did you find out that there was something wrong with this woman?”
Hogan said: “You may not know much, in fact, in Chinatown, although the public opinion is mixed,”
“No matter the overall chaos, but generally there really will not be a Chinese daring to rob in the street here,”
“After all, we are all Chinese, it is easy to inquire who did it,”
“Not to mention that Chinatown is cooped up in several Chinese gangs,”
“They are here to collect protection fees in the area, but also set a lot of rules,”
“General thieves really do not dare to rob in the street or make a move in Chinatown in broad daylight,”
“So this woman was robbed in front of my store in broad daylight,”
“It itself is not quite reasonable. Combined with the person who came to the store in the morning,”
“I can basically determine that she had a problem.”
“In addition, there was another thing wrong. The thing is that Chinatown is such a place,”
“The police is called, even in half an hour it is unlikely to have a police car over,”
“This time surprisingly it took them less than ten minutes to come, see it was all prepared.”
Charlie asked incomprehensibly, “So police take a long time to come over?”
“Right.” Hogan said: “Here, in the minority or ethnically dominated places,”
“The police are generally not asked to come on one hand, on the one hand,”
“There are many gangs, and a high degree of autonomy, the police are generally reluctant to get involved.”
“And as well no one in the district does the police sponsorship,”
“So the police force itself is small, the response speed is naturally not very fast.”
“Here, everything is market-oriented, the police is also the same,”
“Each rich district in New York with the New York police precincts,”
“For the police salary, it is not the city government that is responsible for it,”
FAQ Novel
Q: What made Hogan suspicious of the middle-aged man who visited his store?
A: Hogan became suspicious because the man intently stared at his three security cameras non-stop, an unusual behavior for someone simply eating a meal in a restaurant.
Q: Why did Hogan immediately remove the hard disk from his security camera recorder?
A: Hogan feared the man was either a gangster or a plainclothes police officer trying to obtain CCTV footage, potentially involving Charlie and Miss Gu, so he destroyed the evidence as a precaution.
Q: How did Hogan deduce that the ‘phone snatching’ incident was staged?
A: Hogan concluded that the combined events – the man’s earlier interest in cameras and the subsequent ‘robbery’ – were a coordinated attempt to retrieve his hard drive, noting the ‘clumsy choreography’ and lack of key details in their deception.
Q: What is Hogan’s philosophy on achieving ‘relative perfection’ in a crime?
A: Hogan believes that while absolute perfection isn’t possible, ‘relative perfection’ can be achieved if the crucial elements, such as the ‘killer’s heart’ or true motive, remain undiscovered, making the crime unsolvable for the police.
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