*shrug* We could balance the budget if the police used this method on every suspect.
Bullets are cheap, and the government has purchased billions of hollow points...
Heck we could close down all the jails and courts too. Think of the money we could save.
You might have noticed that this psycho-killer was well out of the parameters of your unusual murderer. LAPD complaned about bleeding millions dollars each day while in pursuit of him. Taxpayers getting reamed of course to pay for all this overtime etc.
Police taking extraordinary measures to termainate an extraordinary killer who no doubt was and is inspiring copy cats.... The way he was killed (burned out) will serve as a warning to potential imitators