If you’ve been with us on this site for a while, then you know that I don’t tend to hold up much hope that law enforcement can prevent most violent crime (certainly not in places where prosecutors are letting violent criminals out of jail and off the hook).
That’s not me being harsh towards law enforcement. That’s physics.
They literally can’t be everywhere all of the time.
But let me give credit where credit is due. Law enforcement can make a difference in bringing consequences to those who have committed crimes, and with a recent arrest, there is the possibility of bringing some closure to one of the biggest unsolved celebrity murders in history.
Here’s the situation: Duane “Keffe D” Davis is accused of having orchestrated the killing of rapper Tupac Shakur (2Pac) thirty years ago and supplying the gun to whoever it was that pulled the trigger. He has pleaded not guilty.
The thing that gets to me is how Davis came back on to the radar of law enforcement to put himself into this situation. Jessica Hill with the Associated Press writes,
Davis co-wrote the memoir “Compton Street Legends,” which vividly describes the shooting. The book says Davis obtained a handgun from an associate and tossed it into the back seat of the Cadillac but did not say who fired the fatal shots.
That’s right, his own book placed him at the scene of the crime and said that he made the firearm available to whoever took the shot.
At least O.J. Simpson had the sense to title his book If I Did It.
Now, many people think that O.J. actually did murder his wife, but he never admitted to doing it.
Davis, on the other hand, essentially wrote in his book, “Yeah, I’m responsible for making the murder of Tupac happen.”
Not the brightest move, and, frankly, you have to wonder why his or the publishing company’s lawyer allowed him to put that in the book.
Who knows? Maybe it was the only curiosity point that they could come up with to try to make the book a bestseller.
Whatever the reason, I don’t think that it’s hard to argue that between Davis and O.J., O.J. was the smarter (alleged) criminal.
