IMO LE have done a fine and outstanding job keeping the family abreast of what's going on. MM is a fine detective and knows how to work a case. There are a lot of things being left out intentionally and if Dale knew exactly what has been collected it may make him do something stupid which NONE of us want. LE releases info to the public strategically. They obviously do not owe the public any explanations as long as they are keeping the most important people...family...up to speed. Dale is obsessive and compulsive and can fly off the handle without a moment's notice. This guy has a history of drugs and beating women...we don't want another Josh Powell situation as I believe Dale is VERY capable of repeating. I DOUBT he has any concern for the well being of his children or he'd let the grandparents see the kids. Michelle's mother, father, sisters, brothers, and the twins older brother have not seen those kids!!!!! True colors are being SHOWN here! All JMO
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MM is a fine detective and knows how to work a case ..."
I have no way to evaluate any investigator's job performance given that I have little insight on how this investigation has been conducted, not to mention that I haven't been asked to do so by anyone. However if the issue you raise here is one of competency, as a general rule, I would need real and verifiable information, facts and independent insights before making a judgement and no information is available on the public record that I'm aware of, that directly addresses those factors.
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They obviously do not owe the public any explanations as long as they are keeping the most important people...family...up to speed..."
IMO that is true but only to a point and then cease to be true or even altogether reasonable. While there might be legitimate investigative and strategic reasons to not disclose facts and evidence, in whole or in part, about a particular case, unavoidably it does come a time where such information should be released IMO. Especially where the issue is one of
public safety, which policing is all about, then public scrutiny is not only warranted but to be demanded, because Michelle's case could be very similar tomorrow to that of our child, our mother, father, sister, brother, friend and anyone else we deeply care about, therefore I and you and everybody here has a very direct and legitimate reason to want to know how effective is our police department, their methodology, their investigative successes and failures, the people that work in that organization, the adequacy of funding to do the job and so on and on. and that would not be any different say ... to want to know what's going on in your school and the teachers that educate our children, in this case would be called teacher evaluation, a process which every educator and the public at large is familiar with ... educators are not particularly less professional then police officers and if anything it usually takes a lot more educational achievements ... a Master Degree to get a simple appointment in an HS and a full PhD plus the requirement to at least periodically publish an extensive article somewhere or even a book depending of the caliber of the institution one aspires for tenure, and yet they need to answer for their teaching methods and achievements to the governing boards, their respective head of the department, the parents ...
the public, ultimately everyone is required to prove their worth, not with personal opinions but with demonstrable facts ... facts ... opinions ... facts ... opinions ... facts ... opinions ... two different concepts often interrelated but two different standards not to be confused with one another.
To go from the academic to the practical, and to return to the specifics of our issue here, IMO after 2 years there ought to be no measure of credibility left to the idea that this case is going to break at any point save for a specific and lucky twist of fate and assuming that no game changer is introduced, if this was an issue of a failing sport team and one was its biggest fan with the power to make changes, one would need to change the cheerleaders, then some of the players, then the coach, then the owners, and not necessarily in that order, but surely one would not insist on doing that which has been tried before while expecting different results, or at the very least one ought to entertain the possibility of being wrong about this or that and try to figure out which ... because
change implies something different and not a doubling down on that which has failed by simply reiterating that which has not materialized factually or has not come to pass when predicted, which leads me to my original question for anyone else here who cares to answer it:
assuming there's no break in the case when is it time for a reevaluation of long held beliefs and strategy about this case by the police? When is it time for the public to demand that the police concretely and specifically account for their work in this case? Is it ever? Is it now, after 2 years? 3 years? 4 Years? When?