The Hunt for Dystopia D’NaeNae

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In one of 2020’s finest ironies, most of us spent the 75th anniversary of Hitler’s death confined to our own personal bunkers, hiding from a malevolent menace from the East.
The Führer’s posthumous revenge for all those Downfall parody videos.
In the month before the lockdown, I’d been working on a true-crime story about an urban wrongdoer whose evasion of capture defied common sense. At the time, I had no way of knowing how instructive that story would turn out to be.
On December 14th of last year, there was a theft of almost a dozen packages from the lobby of an apartment building at 2117 Haste Street in Berkeley, California. The thief, a young black woman, was making a food delivery for DoorDash. After being buzzed in and handing the food to her customer, the DoorDasher, now alone in the lobby, gathered the packages piled under the residents’ mailboxes and calmly walked out with them. Most of those packages were Christmas gifts.
The thief’s image was caught clear as day on the security cameras; she hadn’t even attempted to hide her face. More than that, her identity and her vehicle’s make and plates were on file with DoorDash. Apprehending this woman was a no-brainer; DoorDash knew exactly who she was.
         
          
   
Yet the police didn’t nab her.

https://www.takimag.com/article/the-hunt-for-dystopia-dnaenae/