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.
Thanks for explaining your position. I see some of your points, others not at all. Its the COPs who are the problem making the situation far more dangerous than initially. That and they have no authority to keep people from their homes. In fact no one knows that area better than the people who live there. The only people shot are the COPs, no one else. So, still the COPs are going after this guy more for revenge than safety.