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
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And the reason I might ask?
She did the right thing by calling.
No “Dead or Alive” offer, eh?
911 or her lawyer or both???
Ok since she is a maid, does anyone know who this maid is? Is she an illegal? ooops I mean “Undocumented”?
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.
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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. ... Dorner will never be convicted now.
That's why she won't see a penny from the LAPD reward. No conviction = no reward. And I hope you didn't think that wasn't the LAPD plan all along.
The very essence of copycats is that they are scatterbrained and spontaneous. The word copycat is assigned to them by the media after the fact. In real terms, they see some cop standing there, so they walk up behind him and shoot him in the head.
When asked why, after the fact, they just give a 50/50 of “wasn’t me” and “I donno.” They are too stupid to anticipate.
“Dorner HAD to be permanently silenced lest he reveal factual information about the police corruption.
Only a naive idiot expected he would be arrested and a public trial held.
Now we will never know”
Anybody remember the Clint Eastwood movie “the Gauntlet?”
The lady who called the cops, did so because she herself became a victim or Dorner’s rampage.
But, how do you know that, many others wouldn’t find motivation from an very handsome reward? There are people who will make calls to the police because of the slightest chance of collecting a reward. Without a reward, there will still be people doing their civic duties, but, the chances of success in stopping some criminal, are enhanced by the reward system.
I agree with that. My point was that, if the public is not generally aware that the reward system is a scam (it doesn't pay out), the scam still works. The key isn't the presence of payout in fact, the key is whether the "snitch" BELIEVES there will be a payout.
I'm not saying all reward offers are scams, either. But (IMO) this one was.
You view doing something one views as morally correct an act of stupidity or naïveté?
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Believing anything that comes out of a kops mouth is naïveté .
Early reports indicated several days. Later indicated it was more like several minutes, perhaps an hour or two.
It appears Dorner was laying low in an unoccupied cabin, and had been for days when the maids surprised him.
The LAPD never had any intention of paying that reward. To do so would require them to have the money in the first place.
Now it appears there weren’t any maids, but an older couple. I wonder when the dancing bears come out?
He’d have been far better off to just hole up in a foreclosed/empty home ,, plenty of them...
Turns out the couple that owns the cabin might be able to afford some upgrades.
"I don't think there's going to be a reward," he said. "Remember, it's capture and conviction. There was no capture and no conviction. It's kind of a no-brainer."
This is the sort of thing that destroys trust. The LAPD has little trust left.
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