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Hunt for Christopher Dorner becomes major PR problem for L.A. police
The Christian Science Monitor ^ | February 10, 2013 | Brad Knickerbocker

Posted on 02/10/2013 7:15:36 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

The hunt for alleged cop killer Christopher Dorner has turned into a major public relations challenge for law enforcement officials, in particular the Los Angeles Police Department working its way back from a history of corruption and abuse.

Not only have hundreds of well-trained officers equipped with military-style vehicles – including helicopters with thermal imaging devices one pilot says can pick out a rabbit in a snowstorm – been unable to find the man charged with killing three people and wounding two others on a rampage aimed at police officers and their families.

The LAPD also has been forced to reexamine the reasons for Mr. Dorner’s dismissal as a police officer in 2009 – brought about, Dorner charges in the 11-page manifesto he posted on Facebook, by racism in the department. And the LAPD is having to make amends to the two people – a middle-aged Hispanic woman and her mother delivering newspapers – wounded when police riddled their truck with gunfire. (The women’s truck was neither the make nor the color of Dorner’s pickup later found abandoned.)

The search for Dorner continued Sunday in and around the San Bernardino mountains east of Los Angeles, but police were on edge and alert to the possibility that the alleged killer had left California. Police in Las Vegas (where Dorner owns property) are now traveling in pairs, and motorcycle patrol officers have been ordered into less-vulnerable cruisers...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; chrisdorner; christopherdorner; clusterflock; corruption; crime; donutwatch; dorner; guncontrol; keystonekops; lapd; lasvegas; leo; massmurderer; nevada; racism; rambro; secondamendment; whatshisfrnick
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To: Gene Eric

Yep. What they can’t pick out is a guy who knows that anybody with a $3 space blanket can avoid detection by thermal imaging cameras.


41 posted on 02/10/2013 11:27:49 PM PST by ponygirl (Be Breitbart.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Keystone Kops!
Can't even track this guy, but managed to shoot up three innocent people by sheer incompetence and buffoonery.

If I lived in LA, I would be more afraid of the LAPD than Dorner.

cops harass helicopter shoot dorner pickup women

cops shoot innocent truck dorner idiots murder


Halt! Show me your papers!
helicopter nazis harass woman rockcollector police

42 posted on 02/11/2013 1:03:09 AM PST by Bon mots (Abu Ghraib: 47 Times on the front page of the NY Times | Benghazi: 2 Times)
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To: ponygirl

A space blanket will not give much concealment from thermal imaging even when initially put on and even less once body heat warms the material up. In cold climates it is even less useful for concealment.


43 posted on 02/11/2013 2:31:13 AM PST by DangerZone (If the left had their way, all of America would be as safe as Sandy Hook Elementary.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Put gun in cops hands and the one being pointed at is going to wind up dead. after all if there is no one to testify, the cop get off with a justified shooting. The circus these clowns in L.A. are running shows that they can’t bully everyone. I can’t justify Dorners shooting proclivities but this incident may have brought things to light within LAPD they otherwise were content to keep hidden.


44 posted on 02/11/2013 6:24:31 AM PST by Ian Hawk
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To: Nepeta

I would place him somewhere in Canada. Not as much heat at the border as Mexico. There are plenty of isolated wooded areas to cross back and forth without encountering I C E.


45 posted on 02/11/2013 6:44:28 AM PST by Ian Hawk
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To: DTogo

What it takes is 1. Put yourself on the guments radar. & 2. have a cowardly neighbor, relative or friend to rat you out.
Look at the hitler youth and the neighborhood wardens continuously on the lookout to report someone in order to look good to the Gestapo.


46 posted on 02/11/2013 6:44:35 AM PST by Ian Hawk
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To: Ian Hawk
I would place him somewhere in Canada. Not as much heat at the border as Mexico. There are plenty of isolated wooded areas to cross back and forth without encountering I C E.

He seems to be a very smart guy who planned this for some time. He may have created a second identity months ago, and established himself somewhere well outside of California. If he did this, he could be working and living among people who won't even think of him as possibly being Dorner because they've known him as someone else well before this manhunt.
47 posted on 02/11/2013 8:21:04 AM PST by Nepeta
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To: Ian Hawk
I would place him somewhere in Canada. Not as much heat at the border as Mexico. There are plenty of isolated wooded areas to cross back and forth without encountering I C E.

He seems to be a very smart guy who planned this for some time. He may have created a second identity months ago, and established himself somewhere well outside of California. If he did this, he could be working and living among people who won't even think of him as possibly being Dorner because they've known him as someone else well before this manhunt.
48 posted on 02/11/2013 8:24:41 AM PST by Nepeta
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To: Yollopoliuhqui
That’s going to be one poorly attended funeral.

Not really

49 posted on 02/14/2013 7:36:48 AM PST by South40
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