[kjam22]

I agree that it is bad the woman's tip was "brushed off". But the problem is that they had 70,000 tips and only a dozen or so were valid. So their brush off ratio of good tips to bad tips has to be pretty good. :)

Hindsight is always 20 20. Not long ago many here were complaining because not enough info was being released. No composite etc narrowing the search. Now we're complaining because they were looking for a specific vehicle.

[SarahW]

HOw many of those 70,000 were on the actual scene of a shooting?

How many reported people crouching under dashboards in the parking lot near a shooting?

This tip should instantly have been recognized as being significant enough for further investigation.

The reason it was dismissed is the most shocking of all - b/c it wasn't a white van. They didn't have any solid information at the time that the white van was what was used by the actual shooter.

I question the tip line operators ability to rank the value of information received.

[spycatcher]

The dark Caprice was on the watch list, but the task force obviously failed to tell cops on patrol who stopped the car coutless times or tip line operators who turned away callers.