Red Bluff Police Officer Murdered - UPDATE

Various News and RBPD links | Nov. 24, 2002 | Various

[Travis McGee]

Please keep us posted. These true crime threads are one of the many ways FR is valuable.

[DoughtyOne]

Sorry to hear about that. What a shame.

[DoughtyOne]

Let me add, that I think it's a good idea to add to the pink-alert system that is now used to find kidnap victims. A blue alert could be called when a law enforcement officer has been killed and there's all all points bulletin called to apprehend a suspect. Local motorists would be the first line of defense in these instances.

We know that moments count with kidnapped kids. I think our fallen officers deserve as much, and the public would be safer with these perps off the streets ASAP. At the very least the public would be aware of a dangerous person they might come in contact with.

[rockfish59]

[JustAmy]

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[Neil E. Wright]

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[Tony in Hawaii]

I just can't imagine something like this happening in Red Bluff.

[MistyCA]

Thanks for the ping, Neil.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Thanks for the update, Neil.

Bump.

[MistyCA]

What on earth was a police officer doing filling up his patrol car at a public gas station??????? That is about the most...........never mind..........Sheesh!

[Neil E. Wright]

Misty,

Small departments in smaller cities don't have the facilities of a place like LA. Most small cities also contract out the repair work on their vehicles, because they don't have the tax base to have their own maintenance department. When I was a cop in Thomas OK in the early 80s, I filled the patrol vehicle at the only gas station in town, and maintenance work was done by a company in a nearby town (20+ miles away). It happens.

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[MistyCA]

Red Bluff isn't that small, is it? Yes, I can understand a small town, but that's relative....Santa Barbara was also considered a fairly small town and the officers filled their vehicles in the yard. All maintenance was also done in the yard.

[MistyCA]

Neil....never mind .... lol! I just remembered about Dunkin' Donuts! LOL!

[Neil E. Wright]

I cannot speak to the size of the PD, but from what I've seen of the city website, and the PD's website, doesn't seem to be very large to me ..... Investigators from outside agencies are working the case, because the PD's investigators (from my impression in talking with them) are VERY limited in number .... and this is a MAJOR case. This is NOT to knock the PD investigators (who, IMO, are doing a bang-up job in difficult circumstances), but a case of this type consumes resources at a TREMENDOUS rate. If you go to the city website at http://www.ci.red-bluff.ca.us/ and use keyword "census" and do a search, you'll find the population figures posted are about 13,000 with a median income of about a little over $19,000. Not much to draw from in those numbers.

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[MistyCA]

You know, Neil, I know what you are saying is true. Santa Barbara officers do have to take their vehicles to a public carwash, and that isn't any better! My point is that in towns that have a fairly decent size (and they certainly do not have to be a huge metropolitan area) the safety of the public safety officers has to be a higher priority! My complaint is not that some towns don't have those facilities, but rather that ALL reasonably sized towns should have! But even if they did, that is not going to protect officers from this type of thing. If someone wants to pick off a police officer the opportunity is always there. I just personally have issues with things like this. Another one is the fact that the standards/qualifications are continually lowered. I was just talking to a police officer here in Minneapolis the other day who was complaining because he had to do case work. He doesn't like having to "be mean" and get into people's business when a crime has been committed! But that's another subject.

[MistyCA]

Yes, that is smaller than I thought. But having worked with some of the investigators in Houston, which is a large metropolitan area, the same thing is true. The resources are maxed out to the point of tying the hands of the men who are trying to work cases. I have lots of issues here. I am going off on another tangent because I find this so frustrating and ridiculous. But a town the size you describe would be at a disadvantage probably in the best of circumstances. A place like Houston that pulls their guys off a case a 5pm because it is quitting time, that's quite another story.

[Grampa Dave]

Bumping and to pass this picture along to for our awareness. This is a sketch of the man wanted for questioning in the brutal murder of officer David Mobilio.

[Peaches]

I'm praying that this guy is caught and brought to justice soon.
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[BullDog108]

I'm praying that this guy is caught and brought to justice soon. Bump

Amen BUMP!

[Valin]

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