Killers are always one step ahead of the system.

(6yka.com)

A previously convicted murderer and rapist from Drniš ordered food, opened the door and easily killed the unfortunate nineteen-year-old boy who was delivering the meal to him. That boy did not have to, nor could he have known, that he was delivering to a man who posed a mortal danger. The system had to know that, and it did, and warned him. Therefore, not only the murderer who pulled the trigger is responsible for his murder, but also the inefficient, overly expensive and slow system.

A new wave of tragedies has swept the region, while the police and institutions are increasingly acting like bystanders at the scene of an accident. In Belgrade, according to available information, the top brass of the local police are being linked to the cover-up of the murder of a mafia boss with whom the local police chief had just sat at the same table for dinner.

Registered violent offenders, people with thick records and clear patterns of dangerous behavior, reach their victims with incredible ease and commit the most serious crimes.

The scariest thing is that it almost always turns out that everything was already known. There were signals. There were reports. There were warnings. There were codes, files, verdicts, neighbor testimonies, previous incidents. Dozens of red lights weren't enough for the lazy, sluggish, and self-sufficient system to get going before someone was dead.

The problem is, of course, also in a society that has long normalized violence. The bully is recognized, but gets out of his way. He threatens, but "that's how he is". He fights, but "let the family deal with it". He harasses the neighbors, but "it's better not to get involved". For years we have been taught that violence turns heads, that aggression is tolerated until it becomes news, and that the victim is left alone in the end. In such a society, bullies do not act suddenly, they grow freely in front of all of us.

Yes, it's creepy, but people with a confirmed history of violence and serious psychiatric diagnoses of violence move freely among us without any supervision, because institutions and society do not act preventively, but only when tragedy strikes.

And then, when it's all over, when systemic negligence has taken its bloody toll, dozens of vehicles arrive in rotation, special forces, masks, long guns, and a theatrical demonstration of futile after-force at an address where only one serious policeman from the past was needed to solve the problem.

This belated parade of timely unused inventory only virtually hammers the last nail into the trunk of a rotten and self-sustaining system, which knows everything, records everything, records everything, everything, except doing its job on time.

Killers are always one step ahead.