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This. People talk up about the broadcast kill and poor randomization as huge mistakes, but those were very survivable mistakes. Showing that he had high-ranking police access was the utter ego-induced blunder.

Though the broadcast was still a massive propaganda victory for L. It showed that Kira was not some dispassionate justice god but an impulsive fallible human, one that police work had a very real hope of catching with funding and practice.