Quote Originally Posted by sonatine View Post
The details on this are super fucking sketchy from the top down but Im resisting the temptation to leap fill in minor gaps in logic with huge sweeping strokes of absolute bullshit.

I absolutely do not understand how the cops can go from a firefight with 2 subjects at 70 meters to one dead and one *fucking gone*.

Carjackers on Cops get away approximately once ever never.

Where were the helicopters? Where was the police pursuit?

This shit is beyond ludicrous but its considerably less unlikely than the cops running over Tamerlane and blaming his brother.

The sad truth is almost certainly that when you militarize a civilian police force, instead of obtaining the best of both worlds (a sophisticated and saavy strike force with top-down discipline, well trained and ready to use knowledge of the local theater to its advantage), you end up with the worst; weekend warriors with shitty aim and absolutely no ability to adapt or think on its feet.

At the end of the day, I believe the reality at bar is simple; the FBI were unable to orchestrate a significant attack using a bullshit honky civilian militia, and that same basic inability to orchestrate solutions hamstrung the effort to mitigate white hats escape.

What I take away from this ultimately is that the entire post-9/11 doctrine of a civilian/military police force has been exposed as a farce.
The way that I understand the timeline is that THE DRAGNET is not what responded to the 7-11 robbery, but just a couple of cruisers at the most, i'm guessing here, 4 cops. Also that the pair of bombers were not the ones robbing the Sev, but some other douche, which was the one they stripped naked before they arrested him, giving us the odd stories at first that there was one dead and one captured but then changed to one dead and one got away with a random naked guy in custody. So no coptors in flight at the time, no armored swat vans and no IR predator drones, just 4 guys that shot both suspects, killed one and the other chucked a fucking bomb at the cops, so they let him be.. for now (then).