The lesson of the capture of the second Boston bomber couldn’t be clearer: you want to find a fugitive, don’t treat a community like an obstruction. Encourage its initiative.
Shortly after the “authorities” admitted defeat in their day-long imprisonment of an entire city, a homeowner finally released from his “lock down” found their prey for them.
Going outside to check on his trailered boat, he found blood on its ripped cover, peeked inside and discovered the wounded teenage Jihadi. One phone call and the hundreds of police who’d spend the day fruitlessly cruising around clinging to their armored personnel carriers in their SS-black uniforms, body armor and helmets, had “their” victory. “We got him,” the mayor crowed.
But they didn’t. One alert and cooperative citizen did. Just one.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
Heh. And then about 80 cops and G-men used up their clips, doing their best to make a sieve from that creep. Now the hospital will have to work on him, with about 100 cops standing around (for security, of course) and watching over the surgeons’ shoulders.
They probably riddled that poor guy’s boat, the main reward for his pulling their fat from the fire. They do like overkill. Efficiency they don’t do.