Watertown Crowds Cheering Law Enforcement Vehicles
It's now 9:43 pm Fri. April 19, 2013. Exactly an hour ago, Law Enforcement took "Suspect #2" into custody in Watertown, Massachusetts. Global television showed crowds along the lighted streets, cheering all police, and especially the ambulance which drove off toward a hospital with the suspect, who has lost "a significant amount" of blood.
The cheers are well-deserved, especially for the outstanding work in culling so much visual evidence isolating the 2 suspects around the Boston Marathon finish line. Police work after that was complicated, dangerous, and needle-in-haystack work, against cold-blooded killers armed with firearms and Improvised Explosive Devices.
20/20 Hindsight:
67 Franklin Street, Watertown, Massachusetts
1. Check ALL houses? Several neighbors in the neighborhood around 67 Franklin Street
-- where the suspect turned out to be hiding in a shrink-wrapped boat at least much of the time -- said they were surprised that the much-publicized "house-by-house search" in a 20-block "Watertown Crime Scene" perimeter did NOT include a search of their houses.
WHY NOT?
2. Police now say that the suspect was bleeding in or near another house, but that spot was evidently
ONE BLOCK OUTSIDE THE 20-BLOCK PERIMETER? WHY?
3. No searchers -- nor residents -- thought of checking inside the shrink-wrapped boat in the back yard at 67 Franklin Street.
WHY NOT?
Capture Scene: The Shrink-wrapped Boat at 67 Franklin Street, Watertown, MA
The suspect is said to have been at the other spot, bleeding, for some time, before moving to the boat where he was eventually captured alive, in the backyard of a residence at 67 Franklin Street, Watertown, Massachusetts.
So much incompetence and stupidity have been exposed, along with courage and bravery. The common people outshine the officials and newsfolks on this on.
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