Dorner reward unpaid
This pisses me off to no end. It looks like the people and organizations who offered, combined, a million bucks for the “arrest and conviction” of cop killer Christopher Dorner in California, are backing out of the reward payout. And folks wonder why people mistrust government and why the police can’t get cooperation. From Fox News;
Both [LAPD Chief Charlie] Beck and [ Los Angeles Mayor Antonio] Villaraigosa have said they’d like to see the reward paid out. LAPD spokesman Richard French told FoxNews.com that authorities from the relevant agencies will meet in the next two weeks to correlate their findings regarding the reward and determine who was ultimately responsible for Dorner’s capture.
“It is a very unique situation because we have so many jurisdictions involved and so many people pledging rewards,” French told FoxNews.com.
The city of Riverside, however, which saw one of its officers gunned down by Dorner, has announced its pledge of $100,000 is no longer on the table.
I’m sure the reward isn’t what drove the folks who led police to Dorner, but they were Dorner’s hostages. The police were so uptight about Dorner that they shot up at least two vehicles occupied by completely innocent people. They were on the news every night begging for tips leading to Dorner. The reward was the headline. You’d think that these organizations would be grateful that Dorner is off the streets, if for no other reason because the cops aren’t on edge like they were that week. the community is safer because these folks came forward and gave the police the information they needed to settle the whole charlie foxtrot. That he wasn’t arrested and convicted is not the fault of the tipsters.
Pay up, assholes.
Category: Dumbass Bullshit
“Pay up, assholes.”
Nothing like a lying government… at any level.
That should be a button. Because there’s no excuse for this crap.
What? You were expecting them to live up to their promises?
http://blog.sfgate.com/matierandross/2013/03/25/alameda-county-administrator-tops-in-pay/
California seems to have no problem paying salaries for life like this woman gets!
This is CA for you–quick to rip your cash, assets, etc., and place liens on anything for any legit or illegit reason, but good luck getting it back or getting your due from them.
Case in point–CA witheld some money from a 1099 which was owed me for vehicle registration after I left the state and transferred title on the vehicle.
It took FIVE MONTHS to get the DMV off their asses and okay the release of a few hundred bucks. Imagine how tight-fisted they are with a few million.
Unless you’re an illegal, of course.
Don’t thing like this just give y’all a barge load of warm, fuzzy feelings and trust for these bureaucrats? NOT ME, EITHER!!
OK, I really do hear y’all, but why would anyone expect to collect a reward without meeting the conditions of the reward? It was announced as being based upon arrest and conviction. Neither occurred. The very simplest logic dictates that no reward should be paid.
Tacky that it was not for information leading to apprehension? Maybe, but then several attorneys would be spending the rest of their careers sorting out who got what percentage of the reward.
Multiple claims by persons giving bits of information of various importance is exactly why rewards became for arrest and conviction decades ago.
Liberals.
@#6, From the LA Times, just to add a little more confusion, “Much of the confusion surrounding the conditions of the reward began with the language Villaraigosa used in his announcement. Donors specified that the money they pledged was for Dorner’s arrest and conviction. But Villaragoisa broadened it to “capture” in his public remarks — and that word could be interpreted to include being surrounded in a cabin before committing suicide.
I agree, it’s shitty splitting hairs over “arrest” and “capture”. The fuck is dead, pay up!
In this country, we need to get back to WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE posters.
Rewards are a scam. 25 million not paid for Bin Laden, 1 million for Erik Rudolph, on and on. I can not think of a single cash reward ever paid to anyone.
@6. You are, of course, correct, OWB. I say “correct’ because the conditions of the reward were not met and, thus, there is no legal obligation to pay it. However, I think the point here is found in the difference between doing what is correct and doing what is right. And the right thing to do is to pay the reward to the party who furnished the information that pinpointed Dorner’s location. Disputes will arise in anything, especially where money is at stake. Not paying because of such claims is no answer. What bothers me most about this situation is the conditional language used in a situation that was bound to come to a deadly end. An arrest is not possible where the suspect is, as here, is killed in a standoff with police. The law recognizes flight as evidence of guilt and Dorber certainly fled. Add the specific facts known about Dorner (including his writing), and one can positively conclude that he was guilty. The arrest was, therefore, certain IF he had not died. As for the required conviction, if he had been arrested, a reward under the circumstances of this Dorner case ought not hinge on the competence of a prosecutor. (The Duke faux rape cases come to mind.) Again, you are technically correct but the right thing to do is to pay up.
@ #11: Oh, I understand completely! However, I do not believe that it is ever correct OR right for a government entity to offer a reward for such information. If private individuals, companies, whatever, wish to, that is their business, however misguided I might believe it to be.
Those “Wanted Dead or Alive” posters from days gone by are a good example of private companies (mostly railroads and banks) offering rewards for the apprehension of criminals.