Post by femto on Jun 23, 2018 11:09:36 GMT
It doesn't take years of study to realize that LE collectively share the blame for not properly clearing police officers like they said they did. They had time. There's a finite list of possible people in California LE in the mid-late 70's and lots of ways to examine those lists without violating anyone's civil liberties.
Why do you have the idea that the whole world revolves around the EAR/ONS case? It was just another criminal case of which California back then probably had in the tens of thousands. Serial killers as well - California during the time of DeAngelo probably had its fair share. You do understand that the police weren't only occupied by this one case, right? He also stuck in multiple cities thus making it incredibly hard for all of the departments to collaborate and organize.
Without DNA, JJD could have been caught if he was looked at carefully just like any other cop in the area or any other cop who got in trouble should have been carefully examined.
No. Even today there's literally nothing aside from the DNA to connect DeAngelo to the crimes aside from some filmsy circumstantial evidence regarding his relatively close location to the attacks (and not really that close). His girlfriend's name (that the victim wasn't even sure that it was that what she heard) and I guess the shoplifting where he took items that the EAR didn't even use (aside from the dog repellant which we still don't know if he used). You can't prove beyond reasonable doubt that it was DeAngelo thus you can't catch him without the DNA. You can even look at other unresolved serial cases with multiple POI's who have way more circumstantial evidence to connect them to the crime, but because they can't be proven beyond reasonable doubt to have committed them, the cases remain unsolved.
It's different than LE looking at any other group of potential POI's-- because they are the people that look at all the other people--- and when it's themselves they are looking at-- I think they should be held to a higher standard. If they had failed to find him and he was anything other than a cop (realtor, student, soldier, airman, painter, construction worker, etc) it would be easier to accept. LE failed the people. This shouldn't ever happen again. It's a big deal.
Higher standard - I agree. Unreasonable standards - I don't. Sacramento and other cities in which these crimes were committed made a lot of mistakes, but this wasn't one of them.