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"We (cops in Richmond) had not been given any information to be on the lookout for that (Caprice) kind of vehicle."

So much for the LE-apologists' theory that the task force cops were really after a Caprice but just didn't make that information public so as not to tip off the snipers.

A database check should have been an obvious tactic but catching these morons wouldn't even have required that level of sophistication. On Oct. 4, the day after the 5 killings, the owner of the liquor store whose employee was shot on Sept. 14 called the detective who investigated that shooting with information linking it to the snipers. The owner said on TV that the detective didn't get back to him until much later and even then only went through the motions. His wife even resorted to calling the tip line to no avail -- not much of a surprise since we now know that the tip line was refusing to take calls from the snipers themselves.

Among the information available on Oct. 4 was a witness description of a Caprice leaving the scene of the Sept. 14 shooting, just as a witness had reported that a Caprice left the last of the 5 shootings on Oct 3. On Oct. 8, the cop in Baltimore stopped the snipers but let them go because the witness reports of a Caprice had not been given to the cops on the street, as the task force continued to focus on a phantom white van.

Giving the cops the benefit of the doubt, the snipers should have been nailed no later than Oct. 8. Four more people died and one was wounded after that. Reaction from the lamestream media ranges from: "Brilliant police work" to "The cops had a lot to do and at least they caught these guys."

What a travesty!