Unfit For Duty: LAPD Officer Says Christopher Dorner Was No Superhero Or Martyr

Jack Dunphy, the pseudonym for a Los Angeles police officer and writer, offers his take on  Christopher Dorner, the former LAPD officer who went on a murder spree, in The City Journal.

First and most important, Dorner’s problem was not that he was “entirely crazy”; he was evil, a term rarely heard in the discussion of his crimes. Given Hill’s academic position, it is most likely a term absent not only from his own vocabulary, but also from that of virtually everyone with whom he interacts regularly.

Second, how is it that Dorner’s online manifesto is more indicative of his mental state than the heinous acts he is believed to have committed? That he could describe his grievance with the Los Angeles Police Department with some coherence shouldn’t obscure the fact that in this now infamous document, Dorner threatened the lives of police officers and their families—and then went out and made good on the threat, murdering the daughter of the retired police captain against whom he held a grudge, as well as her fiancé. Yes, Dorner had “a plan and mission”—the first act of which was to murder two people having nothing to do with his grievances.

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http://www.city-journal.org/2013/cjc0222jd.html