Reichart drives me crazy. Before he ran for Congress he was giving symposiums/classes on techniques used to catch the Green River Killer (and the mistakes they made). I took one of his classes and had a chance to talk to him on issues other than GRK.
He did not impress me thinking back on him talks. Most of the mistakes made during GRK’s investigation were not mistakes, they were simply those in the Dept. refusing to stand up and push harder.
They had a pimp/boyfriend who dropped his hooker/girlfriend off with Gary Ridgeway in Ridegeway’s truck. The pimp followed them to Ridgeways home and after hours of his girlfriend not coming out, he got the girls father and contact the police who went to the home.
Ridgeway denied having even picked up the girl and refused to allow entry. Given that hookers were being killed monthly in the area, given that there was a witness to her entering both his truck and home and never coming out the police did not use their Constitutional powers to enter a home using “person in danger”.
While the police were diddling in-front of Ridgeway’s home, this girl was tied up in his bedroom having been raped already. Ridgeway finished with the police, went into his bedroom, murdered her. Her body was found months later.
There are many more examples of this happening under Reichart’s handling of GRK. But eventually he did catch Ridgeway and the public awarded him with a Congressional seat.
him = his.
My fingers aren’t working - Obama’s fault.
I have great respect for our law enforcement officers. However sometimes the situations we see and the reaction to them by law enforcement are arbitrary and maddening. As bad as it sounds I have had to hold my tongue on many occasions in the interest of preserving future working relationships. I learned this the hard way. Unfortunately, the news media is almost as bad as Hollywood when it comes to retelling what happened. In over 20 years in every situation that I have been involved in... which made the local and on occassion the national news... there have always been blatant errors. Reichart may have been a saint, or he may have been a major screw-up with his leadership on the Green River Killer case. How would the public ever really know?