Posted an update to the "Moose Abuse" post. We currently have a family debate in the Nukevet bunker about whether the snipers were caught due to excellent police work, or sniper arrogance.
Update of the Update (is that legal)
Misha points us to a story that causes the "excellent police work" theory to look a little less plausible.
Posted by Neal Mauldin at October 25, 2002 09:18 AM | TrackBackI'm very pro-police but I think it's more that these maniacs were very stupid.
Posted by: Brent on October 25, 2002 12:43 PMThe idea of the super genious master criminal, terrorist is pure media fiction. Makes for fun movies, but has no basis in reality. My father was a cop, and my brother. They would tell you that virtually all criminals are pretty stupid. The few high profile ones that are not, still fall short of Einstein. To avoid getting caught a criminal has to be smart and lucky every time. The police just have to be consistant, and strict in policy and the rules of evidence. Against a competent cop, time is not on the criminals side.
Posted by: puggs on October 26, 2002 01:21 PMI have plenty of police experience, and I can tell you for a fact that criminals are STUPID.
It was neither bad nor good police work, it was just police work and one hell of a lot of it.
You pick up little peices of the puzzle here and there and wherever you can, and when you get enough peices fitted together, you can suddenly see what the picture is going to be.
The fact that this clown was stopped by police officers several times during his killing spree doesn't mean that the cops who stopped him were stupid. There was no way for them to know who they were talking to. And note that if the police had NOT stopped him several times, the information that finally put him in the bag would not have been available.
Posted by: Gary Utter on October 27, 2002 12:21 AM