Glenn Greenwald

It turns out apparently that there aren't for whatever reasons, there's speculation about why.

When you see police incompetence on this level, it really is, it's alarming.

I think the other interesting aspect of it is, is because I've spent a lot of time in my work on things like mass surveillance and facial recognition and all the ways that we might be surveilled.

There's obviously real dangers to having mass surveillance, but in a case like this, you kind of wish that police were able to trace everybody's movements in a way that's a lot easier.

And it kind of points to this conflict that we have

But I think everybody finds it inconceivable, not that there's police incompetence, but that on a case of this magnitude, of this scale, at a place like Brown, it looks like the Keystone Cops.

Totally.

And you really do start wondering why, like...

Is this just really how incompetent they are?

Or is there something about this case and like the university environment and academia and all the values that we know prevail there that are causing impediments in the investigation that's making this incompetence worse?

Here's the thing.

So there's been a lot of speculation online about what happened at Brown and also what happened with the killing that some people think might be related of this nuclear physicist who was also killed.

At MIT.

At MIT, exactly.

And a lot of the speculation, some of it turned out to be false.

Others of it turned out to be very unfounded.

And a lot of people are...

not unreasonably, that one of the problems with this kind of online sleuth thing is that it often leads to politically motivated speculation or things.

Okay, I agree with that.

I do think that's an issue.