Cops, LA Reneg On Promises

From Fox News: Fugitive ex-LAPD police officer Christopher Dorner's death in a mountain cabin inferno has been confirmed by dental records, but the $1.1 million price put on his head during his week on the lam may go uncollected.
The bounty was funded by private donations and announced by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and LAPD Chief Charlie Beck while Dorner was on the run after gunning down a couple in Irvine Calif., and shooting two police officers, killing one, in Riverside. Although several tips and brushes with the former cop and Navy man eventually led to police surrounding him in a cabin in San Bernardino, it now looks like no reward money will change hands.
The $1 million pledged by the city was "for information that will lead to Mr. Dorner's capture." Another $100,000 pledged by the L.A. City Council had similar language, stating the money was for information "leading to the identification, apprehension and conviction of Christopher Dorner."
Since Dorner was never captured, apprehended or convicted, and instead died Tuesday night during a dramatic standoff near Big Bear, Calif., when the cabin he barricaded himself in burned down with him inside, the terms were not met.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/02/15/1m-reward-for-christopher-dorner-may-go-uncollected/#ixzz2L3666yyj
My feeling I that there was no way Dorner was going to be captured alive.  If he didn't kill himself, then the cops would.  Dorner knew too much and the cops didn't want a show trial.  Dorner didn't want to spend time in prison with the prison folk he helped put away.
To offer that kind of money, $1,000,000, the City of Los Angeles knew they were not going to pay out, but they knew they would get free information.