Police Captain, Chaney, is outraged when he is informed of the famous millionaire, Allen Ruben s murder and that the killer is holding his wife hostage. This is a good example of Classism because the Rubens are well known, rich New Yorkers. Everyone expects the police to find the killer especially now the two people from a high society have been the victims. This is another problem with classism in today s society. People pay more attention to crimes that involve famous people.
People also pay attention to crimes that happen where they usually shouldn t occur.
For instance, if a person is murdered in a very affluent neighborhood, the media will give more attention to that particular incident instead of if a person was murdered in the projects. Since the media gives these types of murders more attention, people will take a closer look at the police department and this will put more strain on the police to do the job absolutely right. The idea of a police department not being able to solve a high profile crime is typical in today s movies that involve a killer and the police. Later in The Bone Collector, Lincoln and Amelia figure out that there were other people killed before Mr. Ruben and his wife were. The killer left the same type of clues at the crime scenes, but the police overlooked these clues.