I hope they find the f - ckers

I want to play devils advocate for a minute. Why is it when a cop is shot - it is all hands on deck, shut down anything and everything to find the perps, 24/7. When a regular person is shot, it is a process and long and drawn out.

Because it is a FEDERAL crime when a law enforcement officer is murdered.

because there is so many people and too few cops?

The FBI, ATF, and U.S. Marshals are all helping in the hunt.

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Police throughout the country make thousands of arrests daily. The arrestee must decide to submit to the arrest or resist the arrest. Resisting may be verbal, passive, active, or assaultive. The assaultive resister is the one who kills the cop when much less force is required to resist the arrest or escape. A precedent must be set to deter the actions of assaultive resisters in the future.If an swift and powerful response doesn't occur, it will only reinforce the behavior of future active resisters.Plus it's usually their friend that is murdered. They tend to get ****.

@Dave :I'm assuming this is the real reason. While CJ's thought makes sense, I don't think that much thought is put into it. Anne's reasoning of federal doesn't really work since there are plenty of murders (and other crimes) under federal jurisdiction that don't result in all out manhunts - see the FBI's most wanted list. Why shouldn't as much effort be put into finding the person who shot that little kid in his bed a few years ago in the East Bluff(?) versus someone who shot a police officer? The kid gets a couple detectives asking some questions. The cop gets thousands of man hours in a very short time frame. When small children can't even sleep in their beds, isn't that a possible definition of anarchy?

@jimthompson A couple of detectives asking questions, huh? smdhDid it ever occur to you that this case may haunt the dreams of the detectives that had to see his dead body in that bed? The countless hours and sleepless nights they've spent trying to bring the killer to justice? Don't assume that what you don't see doesn't exist, Jim.

Wasn't there a recent all out manhunt for the escaped prisoners in NY?I think the intensity of the manhunt is based upon the possible threat. If they are armed and dangerous and kill a cop at random, its quite probable they will kill anyone else who gets in their way.Many murders are situational responses or targeted individuals that aren't likely to be repeated, and the suspect isnt hiding or on the run.

@Dave I don't want to get too far in the weeds on this but to my knowledge, they've never even turned up a solid lead on that case even after Crime Stoppers and PJS both featured this several times. Obviously that can be blamed on people not talking and/or poor cop work. Whichever. There was an all out manhunt for those escapees. They embarassed police by escaping and one was a...cop killer.

All I know is this. I stand with the cops. I just wish there was something to do to help.

As a "civilian" I would hope that we would use all available resources to catch, prosecute, and incarcerate cop killers. Police officers go to work each day knowing their lives could be put in danger and they still do it. I think the least, and I mean very least, we should do is go balls out to catch the damn bastards that kill them.

I used to live near there, and a childhood friend posted that the victim was a friend of their family.This isn't just, "he had the same job in some other town". There's a lot of "he's my friend" within the emergency/enforcement community.

All while Obama says nothing and goes to look at a glacier. #glacierlivesmatter