Don't confuse the San Bernardino Mountains with Hollywood. It is a vast and rugged area with peaks as high as 10,000 feet. It is also very cold at night, and there can be a 10-foot snow pack. To top it off, it can be pea-soup foggy in the mornings. If this Dorner were as sharp as his media fan base thinks and he had real X-country skills, he could have holed up in there for months. He had no real plan. He had weapons and a sick racist grudge. After that, it looks as if it might have been catch-as-catch-can.
Where the cops failed, IMHO, was in their tactical field abilities, especially in cover and concealment, and perhaps marksmanship or inappropriate weapons (pistols at 200 yards?). Perhaps they threw TOO MANY people into the fight. Perhaps the F&G guys should not have engaged. Who knows?
We'll never get the full story
I grew up in Chino.