The Beltway ‘sniper’ is a single example compared w/ hundreds (probably thousands) treated as trivia by comparison. The fact is LE pulls out all the stops when one of theirs is offed. Certainly they attend to all murders to varying degrees but not w/ the same full court press dead COPs get. Its a fact that cant be denied.
Another factor that makes the Beltway incident unique is its proximity to our national govt. When their lives are endangered all the stops get pulled out too. See the trend? Govt is certainly good at taking care of itself before all others.
I used the Beltway sniper as an example and I think you know it. There are other sniper incidents that could also make my point. And it is true that the longer this goes on the dumber the PSP looks. I’m less than 20 miles from this place and as a member of an SAR team have searched this particular wooded area at lest twice in the past 10 years. It is a hilly dense forest but since he hasn’t been found after the week + then he most likely isn’t there.
And I certainly don’t support the bully tactics of the PSP with respect to the locals. They should be more accomodating to them, allow them to access their homes. If they have 100s of LEs to search the area, then they can dig up a few to escort homeowners in and out of their places to get some supplies and check up on pets and such.
However, the point of this thread is the seemingly unlimited resources being put into place here. I agree that it is a lot but you cannot compare this to your garden variety murder. This was a planned (dare I say it) execution by a sniper. If a sniper opens up on any regular Joe, there will likewise be a tremendous response by LE.
I get the part about our personal freedoms being stripped. I get it. But you cannot have a sniper running around loose in a rural area.