I think I've processed what has me really incensed over this situation.
Dorner was probably a psycho. He was probably a mediocre unremarkable failure in everything he attempted in life. He was probably the author of that facebook manifesto. He was probably wrong about all his LAPD internal affairs reports. LAPD was probably right in firing him. Probably.
But without a court hearing, with Dorner present and a full fact-finding effort, we'll never know.
We pay police officers to facilitate the court experience. To bring to justice and exposition those that don't want to come to it.
Americans don't trust their civic institutions anymore. Cops, Feds, tax agents, politicians, bureaucrats. None of 'em. The final institution for which we have any vestiges of respect are the courts.
We pay the police mercenaries to bring our suspects to the courts, so that the PUBLIC gets to hear the evidence and the PUBLIC gets to decide upon the just nature of the verdict. That's why we have jury trials, why we have transcripts of court proceedings, and so on.
LAPD and SBSD didn't cheat Dorner out of his day in court. Dorner didn't want it.
But Dorner was the suspect in a series of murders. Murders against individual members of our society.
And we, as that society, have rules that the suspect is to be brought to a court for hearing and sentencing.
LAPD/SBSD decided, despite the enormous resources we give them to do this job, that this time it wasn't going to happen. They usurped our court room. The very place where we get the answers we need to maintain our faith in our institutions like LAPD and SBSD.
The story is now one-sided, forevermore.
We pay for SWAT teams to use special weapons and tactics. Not redneck arson.
We pay for SWAT teams to have overtime to resolve a standoff. Not get frustrated and unprofessional and murder a suspect.
We pay for SWAT teams to have crisis negotiators. Not for them to have cushy office desks, but to be available in the field to talk down unstable minds.
We pay for police to bring criminals to society's justice. The justice that We The People cede our own authority and empower them with our proxy to enforce. Not to declare their own vendetta and carry it out with no oversight on our part.
This is personal, bloody, vendetta driven, guilty, culpable, retributive, vicious, sneaky, corrupt murder.
Not protecting and serving.