"The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully"
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The wording is doing quiet cultural work. “Get a victim” treats a person like an object to be acquired, which is precisely the point: it mirrors the killer’s dehumanizing mindset while forcing the listener to confront how mundane the enabling conditions can be. “Easily and successfully” is the uncomfortable hinge. It implies that many offenses are less about rare, monstrous pathology than about environments that make targeting simple: isolation, poor lighting, predictable routines, gaps in oversight, social norms that pressure politeness, and systems that don’t take early warning signs seriously.
As an entertainer commenting in the true-crime ecosystem, Brown is also pushing against the genre’s favorite myth: the criminal mastermind. The subtext is a critique of our storytelling priorities. We obsess over cleverness, profiling, and twists because that’s narratively satisfying; she’s saying prevention lives in the boring parts. If you want fewer victims, don’t just study killers - reduce their “ability” by making easy access harder, and by treating vulnerability as a public safety design problem, not a personal failing.
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Brown, Pat. (2026, January 16). The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-most-important-issue-for-the-killer-is-the-103919/
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Brown, Pat. "The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-most-important-issue-for-the-killer-is-the-103919/.
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"The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-most-important-issue-for-the-killer-is-the-103919/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.






