High IQ people are less likely to commit crimes because they have a clearer picture of the future and more capacity for abstract thought (necessary for empathy). But when they do go on a rampage, they are more dangerous than dummies.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles Times<\/a>: For days, dozens of Los Angeles police detectives worked around the clock to track down a man suspected in a monthlong series of carjackings, robberies and shootings.<\/p>\n The crimes stretched across Los Angeles County, from a shooting in Burbank that left two people wounded to a dramatic police chase after a carjacking in Carson on New Year’s Day. At least one man had been killed, a 37-year-old fatally shot in Panorama City.<\/p>\n Investigators believed the suspect, Artyom Gasparyan, was using stolen license plates to throw them off his trail. The Los Angeles Police Department put its elite Robbery-Homicide detectives on the case and deployed hundreds of other officers to find the suspect.<\/p>\n Authorities say the case finally broke Monday afternoon when undercover officers tracked Gasparyan to a car repair shop in the San Fernando Valley. At some point, police said, the 32-year-old noticed the officers, jumped in his silver Volkswagen and sped off.<\/p>\n Gasparyan was ultimately shot and critically wounded by police on the 5 Freeway in Sun Valley, where he crashed into another car while driving the wrong way near the Glenoaks Boulevard exit…<\/p>\n After Gasparyan was loaded into an ambulance, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck made an impromptu stop at the scene. Gasparyan, the chief said, was a \u201cvery, very dangerous individual.\u201d<\/p>\n Police went public with their search for Gasparyan on Saturday, describing him as an armed and dangerous man wanted in a series of crimes that began in northeast Los Angeles on Dec. 6.<\/p>\n Soon after the LAPD’s announcement, Burbank police said Gasparyan was suspected in a Dec. 9 shooting in the 1700 block of North Catalina street, where a man was shot and wounded outside his home. A gardener working down the street was also shot in the foot as the suspect fled, the man’s co-worker told the Burbank Leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" High IQ people are less likely to commit crimes because they have a clearer picture of the future and more capacity for abstract thought (necessary for empathy). But when they do go on a rampage, they are more dangerous than … Continue reading