Posted on 10/27/2002 3:31:26 AM PST by ovrtaxt
Yep. Instead, Moose allowed the "lone, white, militia member" myth to perpetuate.
A Chevy Caprice was identified at being at the scene of the sniper shooting of the child, and then again by another witness in the DC killing (car was seen leaving the cene with its lights out). On Oct. 13 Chief Moose was asked about a Caprice possibly being used by the snipers; Moose reply was "we don't need pushback by the public".
Right again. Moose's actions are a damn disgrace.
It wasn't "kept secret", it was broadcast within law enforcement but not
to the public.
Tell me, isn't it stupid to tell the one's your trying to catch, all that you know about them?
Don'cha just luv it........"
That's why I'm here! But thanks for pointing it out to those that didn't notice.
re:
"..The police knew last Sunday that the snipers were most likely...."
Most likely? That's like what.... "a big maybe"?
Hey, I just bought a lottery ticket and I'm most likely gonna' be rich!
You know what's even funnier? This:
"...The police knew last Sunday that the snipers were most likely
African-Americans when they interviewed the priest who received
a telephone call from the snipers...."
A telephone call~~~~~~~~? From the snipers?
Yo man.. tell yo momma wese dah one dat did dah deed...?
Did it sound like that, ya' think?
Good grief. Yeah. Afro-am. That's it. Pick 'em up Danno.
When this sniper case started they announced numerous members of many many depts. and agencies were setting to work and were going to be directly involved. But there's a point where more people doesn't mean you're getting more done - and it's not just that the extra people are not doing anything helpful, but you're actually getting less done than with the original group, because the extras start gumming up the works. You start having to spend lots of time updating everyone every day. "Well, we won't know what we're doing until those guys get back to us. But then we'll need to tell them what we're going to do, and find out what they're going to do about that, before we go ahead and do that." And then this monster becomes a great big dummy with no central brain. Almost like a jelly fish - all nerve endings but no eyes and no cognition.
In the telephone call to the priest, in which both snipers spoke to the priest, the snipers mentioned the crime in Montgomery, Alabama, and other items in the notes left to the snipers.
You do realize that various people have accents that can be identified within a reasonable probability?
As I sat and read through the many posts on this thread [that
manage to find so much fault with the manner in which the
search and capture was handled], I can only wonder how many
of those posters are naive women, youths, or live closeted lives.
The liberals are usually the first to make the claim that all
freedom and rights should be abandoned for more safety.
It always surprises me to read it here on FR.
I "carry". If I had witnessed a "sniper" about to take his shot,
I would not have hesitated to stop the action. I am not privy
to the police reports, nor should I be. It would have mattered little
anyway. If there were "snipers" at various locations in this Nation,
firing simultaneously, what difference would a car color, make,
year, or nationality of it's occupants, make?
It's our responsibility to secure our own safety. That does not
mean that we should be privy to internal reports and information
of an ongoing [government] investigation. It means only, that
we have the right to protect ourselves, substantiated by
our 2nd Amendment.
The time to act, is at the time necessitating the act. We don't
need paranoid loonies attacking white vans.
The list of "fugitives" of other states' jurisdiction are not widely broadcast.
You can be considered "fugitive of justice" for not having responded at
court for a simple traffic violation. Failure to appear; a "contempt of court"
charge and lack of response to that, would place you on the list.
FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE:
[federal] Any person who has fled from any State to avoid prosecution for a crime
or to avoid giving testimony in any criminal proceeding. 18 U.S.C.
I have no manner to cite the number of "fugitives of justice", but I'm sure
it would be in the millions.
Moose and the boys here didn't release ANY of it. Some of that info would have helped the general public protect themselves, and some would have aided the capture of the perp, like the license plate number, which had to be leaked behind Moose's back. There's no reason to withhold that info, except a mistrust of the citizens.
But I would have gone even further. I don't have a problem with vigilantes. We use bounty hunters all the time to find people that have skipped bail, what's the difference?
IMO, these agencies wanted to come out like big heroes, and in the end, a trucker from Kentucky found them in 1 1/2 hours. The cops screwed up. They should have employed the public in this thing long before.
1. Someone turning in the perp or
2. the perp turning himself (herself) in or confessing.
With that in mind, when you limit the public knowledge of who or what the perp might be, you eliminate the ability of Joe Citizen to turn in the perp. This is what happened in the sniper case. But it gets even worse. Since LE has profiled the sniper as a white man, they ignored the actual sniper trying to confess 6 times! The Moose effectively eliminated both usual methods of solving a crime.
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