“How do you know when a vagrant is local? Local relative to what?”
Because the Ventura cops immediately knew who the stabber would be when they got the call.
The police already had a heads up about the derelict, Jackson before the murder:
“At 6:23 p.m. on Wednesday, authorities were contacted about a man yelling and being disruptive near the Crowne Plaza Hotel, across the promenade from the Aloha Steakhouse.”
“All Ventura patrol officers in the area were assigned to other calls, so Ventura police used the pier security camera system to observe the man described by the witness, police said. The man was later determined by authorities to be Jackson.”