Posted on 02/13/2013 6:10:38 AM PST by marktwain
A million dollar reward was offered by the LAPD for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Christopher Dorner. This story was published in the LA Times on 10 February, 2013.
The maid that surprised Dorner and told the police where he had been hiding was instrumental in ending the manhunt.
However, the report said that the reward would be for information leading to the "arrest and conviction" of Dorner. It was always highly doubtful that Dorner would ever be convicted, because it was highly doubtful that Dorner would ever be captured alive. Will the unnamed maid who escaped from Dorner's bonds and whose information lead to the end of the manhunt, receive the offered reward? Dorner will never be convicted now.
Link to reward story.
Link to story of maids and Dorner's flight
Dean Weingarten
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That they got there eventually, 7 years later, but too late, shouldn't work against my receipt of the rewards, but nobody has paid up yet.
Should be split between the maid and the guy with the Dodge truck.
Evidence of his involvement is less than overwhelming.
People might respond, and many will help the system, because, to them, it’s the right thing to do.
However, people won’t be proactively assisting, and the assistance which will be offered, is the incidental kind, like when somebody happens upon the criminal or sees some wrongdoing occurring right in front of them. But, taking the extra step won’t be happening if rewards are just ruses to get the extra help the police departments need.
Yes. There is a near infinite supply of stupidity and naivete.
Plenty of people will help the system, because they find it the morally correct thing to do....
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You view doing something one views as morally correct an act of stupidity or naïveté?
A very limited circulation periodical subscribed to by Ivins wife contained an article on mailing to the two senators and the newscaster using addresses in exactly that format.
Do not confound evidence implicating that laboratory, and that source of address information, with IVINS himself.
Quite frankly I think this was an amateurish attempt to frame IVINS carried out by one of the attackers' sympathizers who worked in the same laboratory with IVINS. He not only stole anthrax he stole that publication.
The envelopes were mailed in Boca Raton ~ mishandled due to their placement after hours in a specific sized mail tray used in a post office mail collection boxes. That tray was then sent to the mail equipment distribution site in Eastern Pennsylvania, and in turn sent over to a customer site served by the Franklin township facility ~ where they were all finally postmarked.
By ignorning my very detailed information regarding mail flow on the East Coast the FBI BLEW THE CASE and arrived 7 years to late to the proximity of the theft of some of the anthrax used in the attack.
No. The stupidity and naivete I was referring to was the expectation that a promise of reward would be honored.
Now I’m being told, by someone who’s never met me, that I’ve hated cops all my life. There are some truly entertaining characters about these days....
I wonder what else I can goad him into saying?
Wasn’t Osama Dead Hidin’ wanted dead or alive, with a bounty of $25,000,000? Did the “shooter” get a dime of that? Nope; but the entire SEAL team should have, and split it evenly.
For reward-driven "snitches," the decision to "snitch" or not doesn't turn on whether the promise of reward is in fact sincere. It turns on whether or not "the snitch" believes the offer is genuine.
I don't think the presence of a reward drove the lady who contacted the cops about Dorner. She'd have called the cops, reward or no reward.
She should receive the reward, but I’d bet a week’s pay she’ll get screwed out of it by LAPD. Now we know why they were so sure about “putting up” a million bucks: They had no intention of taking him alive in order to get a conviction.
Most likely she will get a reward.
lol
If the real reward is not paid by the PD, then every officer on the force should send 7 days pay to the maid. Seems a small price for helping them zero in on the guy who was HIDING WITHIN 8 MILES (verified?) OF THE PRESS CONFERENCES!!!!
100% true. I would have, too. As far as she knew, he was a triple-murderer (she likely did not know about the fourth).
That's true -- but I'll bet she's lawyering up as we post.
So far they’ve bought a new truck for the ladies, Likely a new cabin for someone.
Maybe they can hold a bake sale to raise the reward money or just hope that people forget about it. They have an out I suppose.
Dorner put her through a bad experience. Whatever else she had in mind, revenge / remedy was part of the calculus.
I operate on the principle that no good deed goes unpunished ;-)
True dat. But it won't stop me from doing a good deed when called upon. ;^)
She'll get a warm, happy feeling in her heart that her captor for several days died horribly and is gone. But she's not going to get an cash from LAPD.
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