Dorner Manhunt Shows Flaws Terrorists Could Exploit: Report

As well, I always believed the Boston ‘sweep’ was just a hair from being as nearly tragic as was the LA ‘sweep’.

The whole Boston affair showed how ineffective the entire law enforcement community would have been against even modestly trained and skilled terrorists.

After shutting down most of the city of Watertown, and deploying tremendous resources, a single stupid, untrained, and wounded terrorist on foot, blocks away from the initial firefight which killed his accomplice, went undetected after a day of searching by the entire law enforcement operation. He was found by a local citizen who decided to go out into his back yard for a smoke.

Meanwhile, with a thankfully incapacitated terrorist a short distance away, the law enforcement types put on an outdoor press conference with the governor and other officials present. The location of the press conference was broadcast before the event. Had the attack been the work of trained terrorists instead of a couple of idiots, an utter disaster could have unfolded.

Although multiple people were killed, and many injured, the situation could have been much worse. All of the law enforcement organizations involved should study what went wrong, and ensure that in the future they can respond more effectively.

"Investigators later determined that Dorner had pulled off the road and began shooting at the patrol car as soon as it came around a bend. Shells found at the scene and witness statements showed he shot an AR-15 at the officers 29 times – using a noise suppressor to keep them from hearing the shots before they were hit."

Apparently even the police don't understand much about how firearms work. Or that a lot of bullets travel faster than the speed of sound.

Sadly the concept that was the genesis of SWAT has morphed into a bungling bureaucratic system that now treats citizens as the enemy.

I don’t think there’s any going back. Once the civilian ‘training’ targets came out, Boston (and worse to come) was inevitable. New Orleans was a bit of a harbinger; wait til the next disaster or civil unrest...we’ll all know where we stand.

Oh, I remember the Hillside Strangler(s). I grew up in L.A. in the 1970s and that case had everyone on edge, and even more so a decade later when the “claim jumper” (heh) was running around.

The Zodiac Killer is, for me at least, one of the most enigmatic cases in California history. Tied for that is the murder of Elizabeth Short (the Black Dahlia Murder).

I often wonder what happened to the Zodiac; did he just quit? Did he wind up incarcerated on a different matter and the authorities simply never put two and two together? Did he move to another state and keep up his grim harvesting of “slaves for the afterlife”?

I’d be willing to wager that he probably told people “Yep....I’m the Zodiac” and those folks probably replied, “Ah hahaha, you’re such a kidder”.

By now, if he’s still alive, he’d be an older man I figure. If he was in his 20s back in the late 60s/early 70s, he would have been born in the late 1940s to early 1950s I reckon; most likely, he was a Baby Boomer, and they’re pretty much at retirement age now, so if he’s still kicking, he’d be in his 70s or 80s. Maybe he’s in a nursing home for retired serial killers.

In any event, the Zodiac Killer will likely remain a fascinating case for armchair and amateur sleuths for decades to come.

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