he gunned down a 7-11 clerk?

How much should they have spent?

I'm just no good at figuring these things out.

but TreasonousBastard does raise an interesting point. I would be interested to read your take on it.

Do we have a lot of examples of previous manhunts for well-equipped non-cop-killers with a stated terrorist agenda and wilderness survival skills?

comparison. Greater land area, but still comparable.

In California a few weeks back, two officers were killed. The manhunt, fortunately ending after four hours, included police, highway patrol and FBI, and helicopters and dogs. Lots of each. I sincerely doubt there would have been that much manpower for a 7-11 clerk.

They were looking for a murderer. Police departments will use every resource they can to find these kind of trash.

The point is who the victim is. The question (or speculation) is, would they have mustered that amount of manpower for a 7-11 clerk?

The victims were civilians, until the police officer was killed during the manhunt.

A major, televised bombing with multiple victims, reeking of terrorism is not the same as a 7-11 clerk.

They weren't hunting a 7-11 clerk. They were hunting an armed murderer with a clearly stated terrorist agenda and wilderness survival skills.

We might as well call the Boston manhunt "a search for two kids."

I suspect that you would want the police to expend every effort to find him, regardless of who the previous victims of his murders had been.

Wow, that's interesting. Since this story was broken a couple days ago.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2835444/One-LA-s-wanted-fugitives-run-murder-12-years-ARRESTED-living-new-life-carpenter-police-Facebook.html

Now, in that story, one of Los Angeles's most wanted was hiding, in plain sight, working as a carpenter, in Riverside County, which is right next door, for twelve years. They found him when one of the Detectives on light duty was checking out facebook posts and recognized the picture. I wonder how much money they spent on that manhunt?

If you want to see the cops roll out the overtime and go hog wild chasing a criminal, make the crime against a cop. The rest of us, not so much.

Remember the Washington Sniper? I don't remember checkpoints and massive manhunts for them. Now Christopher Dorner was so dangerous, they shot up a truck with two women who were delivering the newspapers to the neighborhood where a cop lived, and got away with it. They closed every road anywhere near where they thought the bad guy might be.



Didn't see that with the hunt for the Serial Killer in Kansas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Rader

So murder isn't exactly the crime that was being pursued. It was the fact that the ones threatened, were cops. You can admit it now man, we all know the truth.

GREAT day when you can throw in a Blazing Saddles quote!

In Belgium, for example, there is a brigade of federal cops looking for "money laundering," which is so vague, they almost call anyone with more than $1000 in cash a money launderer to justify their not catching guys who really do hide billions. So, due to budget overruns, they have an unpaid bill with the Belgian Telecom for €45,000 for expensive wiretaps that they have put on various phones around Europe (yes, they can tap phones in other countries without local permission, welcome to the EU).

All murderers are dangerous, cop killers tend to be a bit more dangerous then most, since they have shown the willingness and ability to murder trained, armed individuals. I'm inclined to think that Frien fully intended to kill more police if the opportunity had presented itself.

Since I am sure someone will be along to criticize, I am NOT saying a police officer's life is worth more or less then a convenience store clerk or anyone else.

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That would certainly make it easier for such criminals to avoid capture.

Or are you saying that police should not be paid overtime?

Out of all the things that taxpayers' money is spent on, is this the one to kick up a stink about?

Obscene.

That's the only word for it.

the signs were that if he wasn't hunted (and therefore on the run) he was going to kill more people?