Mindhunter
Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
From Chapter 1: Inside the Mind of a Killer
Behavior reflects personality.
One of the reasons our work is even necessary has to do with the changing nature
of violent crime itself. We all know about the drug-related murders that plague
most of our cities and the gun crimes that have become an everyday occurrence as
well as a national disgrace. Yet it used to be that most crime, particularly most
violent crime, happened between people who in some way knew each other.
We're not seeing that as much any longer. As recently as the 1960s, the solution
rate to homicide in this country was well over 90 percent. We're not seeing that
any longer, either. Now, despite impressive advances in science and technology,
despite the advent of the computer age, despite many more police officers with
far better and more sophisticated training and resources, the murder rate has
been going up and the solution rate has been going down. More and more crimes are
being committed by and against "strangers," and in many cases we have no motive
to work with, at least no obvious or "logical" motiv ... read full excerpt from: Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit ebook
