Please send the helicopters, armored personnel carriers, and 90% of on site LEO’s home. The guy is underground. We don’t need 100 on site LEO’s.
The need a couple of on site admins/negotiators, small EMT/fire dept. team and one 5-6 man SWAT team and a couple of guys to keep gawkers and press at bay.
If I was a homeowner in the 1 mile radius that were forced out I would be livid and more than likely in jail for re-entering my home.
Agreed, this doesn’t need to be a circus. Any possibility of finding this guy’s ventilation system and pumping in some undetectable gas to put him to sleep for awhile? It would give authorities time to break in and rescue the young boy.
Prayers for this young child and LEO working to resolve this.
You are half right, by my thinking.
That mob of cops is going to cause the bad guy to do something really rash. After all, he is a nut case.
But too many cops nowdays have the military mentality.
What I would do is the same thing a hunter does when he wants to shoot groundhogs or the like.
You become invisible.
I would send everyone home. I would then make a very sad announcement on TV, as I understand he has one, that the guy has in some way escaped. “He is a really smart guy, a survivalist, and he has in some way eluded us.”
I would post a sniper with a heat imagining scope at its maximum range from the entrance, behind the entrance, not in front of it.
Just as you would when shooting groundhogs.
He is so sure he is smarter than the cops that he would go for it and attempt to exit during the wee hours of the night.
It might take a few days, but he would eventually come out.
If I am wrong, so what. Nothing is being accomplished with the present tactics.
There's probably AT LEAST 200-300 LEO & military types tied up in this laughing stock.
Barney Fife, Goober, Opie and 4 of Opie's friends could keep this old guy bottled up long enough for him to get tired and fall asleep.
They're practicing for gun confiscation raids, and civilian bullying.