During the past week, we got a glimpse of two sides of the NYPD’s investigative capabilities: patient and thorough in a high-profile murder case, shoddy in probing an alleged rape that didn’t attract attention until it made the front page of the New York Times as a study in how to alienate a victim.
The good work came in the arrests of the two 14-year-olds alleged to be the primary culprits in the stabbing death of Tessa Majors, an 18-year-old Barnard College student, after she resisted their attempt to rob her last Dec. 11. The boy accused of inflicting the fatal wounds, Rashaun Weaver, evaded capture for several weeks, apparently by hiding in a relative’s home to allow a bite wound he got from Ms. Majors to heal.
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