Moose can't hunt: Thanks to the Agitator for this link to a WaPo article on how the D.C. Sniper case was botched from the get-go. Okay, to be fair, much of this criticism is 20-20 hindsight, but it's clear that the police were far too intently focused on the white-box-van-with-one-white-guy theory. Should the police rely on profiling? Sure, because it's often correct. But there should be an alternative team devoted to thinking "outside the box [van]" that can look at patterns and deviations while ignoring the CW. And the idea that the police with initial jurisdiction get to run the show is somewhat ludicrous. There has to be a better spokesperson/coordinator than Moose. Yes, he's kitschy, but I don't want my chief of investigation to be about hipster websites, etc.