Posted on 10/28/2002 5:22:36 AM PST by SJackson
As a civilian, the author cannot imagine the amount of information that was coming in and all that had to be evaluated during this type of crime/terror spree.
The fact that the blue caprice got thru so many roadblocks is a travesty. Somebody down the line was not doing proper 100%searches of vehicles. The individual(s) who were responsible for setting up the roadblocks and not conducting full 100% vehicle searches ought to face consequences.
Their ineptness lead to the prolongation of the terror spree.
I heard Limbaugh and Hannity criticize Chief Moose, I disagree with them. Again they cannot imagine the volume of information coming in, and the difficult job of disseminating it, and co-ordinating multi-agency task forces.
Could Moose have done better, sure. IMO as an individual with 26 years experience in law enforcement at the county and federal levels,He did a tough job very well.
No problem, I should've provided them up front.
I agree that the police couldn't be expected to link the AL murder or Tacoma murder with these snipers. Where I fault the police is:
1. Allowing the same vehicle to get through multiple roadblocks and never making a connection - something that could be done even in MS Access.
2. Refusing to release a description of the suspects in order to prevent witnesses from having "tunnel vision" (an understandable position); BUT, doing the exact opposite with regard to the white van or box truck.
My most Major complaint with Moose and Friends is that they weren't slack to have that big post-capture media event. That was Political Theater not Police Work. In poker, we call that kind of thing a "tell".
It's a good thing that someone leaked the plate number so that hero Truck Driver could catch these Muslim scum. This case stinks of PC.
So today, we are believing the media with their unnamed sources.
This is all because there is only one profile that may be spoken of on TV--the white male.
He wouldn't go around randomly killing people.
Something that struck me hasnt been mentioned, though maybe Ive misunderstood the facts. I heard that the stolen credit card was used for several purchases in the Washington area. Its amazing that the use of a credit card stolen in commission of a murder doesnt set off an alarm. Unrelated to the sniper incident, they should have been looking for these guys as soon as that card was used.
I had heard they were recording the license plates of those who went through the roadblocks. Five times didn't ring a bell? What were they doing with the numbers? Information is great, but clearly it wasn't properly used.
I recently saw samples of the handwriting and the sentence structure from the several written communications that Moose had in his possession during the investigation.
Having taught for three years in two Detroit inner-city all-black schools, and having read essays and homework assignments ad infinitum from my "students", I can tell you that it is EASY to recognize the street language of blacks, or as some refer to it, Eubonics.
Any FBI, ATF, or cop working on this case who had access to those notes should have immediately seen that the suspects they SHOULD have been seeking were black.
In my opinion, several additional victims died needlessly because politically-correct, anti-profiling, BLACK Chief Moose refused to divulge the fact that BLACKS had obviously written the letters.
Moose is the poster-boy for affirmative action. People are inclined to let it slide because, "after all, he's a cop, and who cares. It's not like he's in a vital position!"
Just wait until you're involved in that head-on collison and suffer serious head trauma. They take you directly to the OR where Chief of Surgery Moose is preparing to open your cranium. Good luck!
Not so. They were caught by citizens, not the police. In fact they were caught despite the efforts of the police to keep from the citizenry, the info that would allow the citizenry to catch these black Islamic murderers. From Newsweek:
The investigators did not release the description of the blue 1990 Chevy Caprice or its New Jersey license-plate number, NDA21Z. But reporters with police scanners had already heard the identifying information being relayed to patrol officers in their cruisers.
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