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Originally Posted by JoeRedskin
I am sorry, let me get this straight ... It has been less than seven days since explosions caused death and injury at a popular open air sporting event that attracts people from all over the world and, in that time:
- The explosive devices causing the event were identified in detail;
- Two relatively faceless individuals were correctly identified (again, in detail) out of the thousands in attendance at the marathon and in a city with a population of ~4.5 million in its metropolitan area;
- The two individuals were located amongst those millions of people in an area of ~90 square miles;
- The two individuals were apprehended or killed while clearly armed to the teeth with various weapons capable of inflicting indiscriminate death and destruction; and
- All of this was accomplished with not a single scratch to any civilian and with only one additional death to law enforcement personnel.
... and we are not holding folks to a "high enough standard"?
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I am not usually one on the side of LE, but this was an exceptional job. Not only for the reasons you listed, but even more so for the behind the scenes inter agency cooperation. Every level of LE came together, shared resources, and when needed went to the public for the resources of millions of US citizens. Very high level and commendable work.
I heard one commentator talk about this opening a new page of IEDs in the US. Maybe it does, but if it does, the other thing this did was show that if you want to do that you will forfeit your life. If some lunatic is ready to forfeit their life, this type of attack is almost impossible to stop, but clearly these two, and imo most would be mass murderers. believe they are more clever and won't be caught. This incident makes that self belief just a little harder to have.