some of dorner's anger is targeted at bill bratten. >> reporter: bratten says he fired dorner when he was chief of police in los angeles and that puts him on dorner's list. tonight police say this situation is a reminder that officers can become targets. newly hired consultant is on christopher dorner's list. dorner sent a package to anderson cooper at cnn. inside a shot up l.a.p.d. coin given to him by bratten and a note. bratten says he is a target because he signed off on dorner's firing. >> i was the chief of police that signed off on his discharge from the l.a.p.d. so in terms of his grievances i could understand. >> reporter: no one understands his deadly actions. his online manifesto mentions targets including those on the force he believed traded him. >> it is about three years ago we paid for service for cops to have all of their names removed from all access on the interset. >> reporter: the president of the police officers association says while dorner's actions are not the norm officerers all over the bay area do face retaliation. >> we have two cases going on in the polic

advisor bratten. >> bratten is not about stop and search.e's looking to improve the internal practices in the police department. >> reporter: he says bratten expects community reviews and comments before he implements a plan. chief howard jordan today pointed to last month's operation giddian which pulled a number of weapons off the street. >> we have to shoot for about 1,000. that's the only way for us to provide adequate police service to these residents. >> there are about a dozen cities that are in the same situation as us. they've really been adding resources and i think the governor and now even the county realize that you know oakland has a high enconcentration of poverty. >> reporter: those who listened had their own ideas about the city's issues. >> when we had high crime before we had gangs. >> go get the people with the guns. these kids are not gang banging. >> reporter: bratton was expected to attend the meeting but at the last minute didn't. he expects to be in the city next month when he will be advising the city. >>> a car end

and we alerted chief bratten and law enforcement. bill bratten is the former new york police commissioner as well as l.a.'s retired chief of police. he joins me now. so chief bratten, i want to show you some of the images that apparently were sent to me. i didn't know about this until really just a few hours ago. i know you are seeing these images for the first time. the first is a coin. the kind of coin that i would imagine either you give out or it's the kind of thing soldiers often give ought or on police forces they have a ceremonial coin with bullet holes clearly shot through both in the center and off to the side. what do you make of this? any idea how he may have gotten the coin? >> chances are he would have received it from me. the photograph that's been displayed very widely today of me shaking his hand in front of a pair of flags probably would have been the custom i have of when somebody was activated into the military, heading overseas, i'd bring them up to the office, present them with one of these coins as a token of re

former chief bratten, who wouns bet bratten, doesn't remember the case. >> believe me, the department goes through exhaustive efforts and there are multiple series of review before an officer is discharged. >> reporter: no one gropes up and wants to be a cop killer, quote dorner. "it was against everything i've ever was." in his sometimes rambling 6,000-word statement, dorner says he wants to clear his name and expose corruption. >> he is narcissistic. he is grandiose. >> reporter: that is a personality disorder. but based on this manifesto, dr. askins does not believe dorner is insane. >> he knows what he's doing. >> reporter: but why now? dorner was honorably discharged from the u.s. navy reserves just last friday after ten years service, including a tour in the persian gulf. was that the trigger for this killing spree? or evidence of careful planning? >> i have more questions than i do have answers at this point. >> reporter: if corner gets his apparent wish, if he is killed, we might never know the whole truth. nick watt, abc news, los angeles. >>> and nick and david will be stayi

bratten and courter opposed if are this photo, but he says he doesn't remember the former officer. >> i don't recall him. as distinctive as he looks, and i don't recall the specific set of circumstances for which i fired him. >> he sent him a coin given by bratton to cnn news center. it had 3 bullet holes in it along with a note that read thanks but no thanks. >> they issued a blue alert for dorner. the blue alert is subject to an amber alert. this is the third such alert since the system sufficiency established 2 years ago. go to ktv are u.com under the la man hunt tab -- ktvu. >> we are following a police brutality. our news chopper brought up this picture. the group of dozen people have been peaceful to the police substation at 17th and valencia. >> demonstrators are up. he was sited for resisting arrest. >> there's people were shot and wounded in a home invasion robbery. a woman and her 2 adult children were asleep on mack dougal avenue about 3:30 when 2 men kicked the door in. police say they shot the woman, and her daughter. injuries are not life threatening. this robbery appe

what drove dorner to violence is bill bratten.ected police commissioner. he was mentioned in the manifesto, as was i. do you have a sense of how this is going to go down in history? >> i think it is historic in the sense's many unique aspects to it, the scale and the magnitude in some as pekts of it. i would hope he goes down in history as what he is. a reprehensible murderer. it's unfortunate those seeking to legitimize him and his actions. you can't legitimize what he did. >> this is what makes this story, i think, fascinating to people negatively and, in some cases, strange cases, positively. he's a police officer. the idea of a police officer is trained to defend the weak, goes after others in his police department, goes after his colleagues, fellow officers with this almost, you know, co choreographed effort. he's putting out a manifesto with his opinion on everything on the plan et. what a strange mind we have here. >> i think that's part of the attraction of this incident, i part from the magnitude of the case, the violence

bratten, i appreciate you joining us. i want to bring in a colleague with experience reporting on law enforcement and participating in it. john miller worked in counterterrorism for the lapd for three years and he's also a cbs correspondent. you have long history in law enforcement. what do you make of this suspect, given his training? how hard is it to track him down? >> it's a unique case. in some ways, you have the classic maunt, and you also have something that is quite an anomaly which is you have the hunted, who is also hunting the hunters. he has obviously fired at police officers. he's turned on them as they have approached him. so this is not your average manhunt. you're talking about a guy who has military training in close quarter battle tactics, all kinds of weapons, long weapons, short weapons, automatic weapons, semiautomatic weapons. he's certified in intelligence and counter intelligence which means he's learned the trade task of intelligence. and beyond the military training, of course, he has the trainin

police chief william bratten told the "today" show that he has looked at three different criminal profilesice collector. here it is. >> he is an injustice collector. that's a term that they use. he collects injustices and never lets them go. >> what is your reaction to that, mr. vanzandt? >> well, i think it's true. i think this is someone who since he was a child believes that he has been put down, that he hasn't had a fair shake all the time. and all of this, ed, has accumulated. this has been, you know, a few pounds, a few pounds, a few pounds. and now we have hundreds of pounds of challenge that this man is carrying right now. and realize what is important too is that even though he blames the lapd for him being fired, the lawyer, the former lapd captain turned lawyer who defended him when he was terminated from the police department, the same lawyer who said that dorner may have been scapegoated by the lapd, it was this captain's daughter who was the first victim who was gunned down who was murdered. so it looks like dorner doesn't know who his friends are and who his enemies are. and

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the chief at the time was bill bratten. >> he would have been fired by him. >> reporter: police said that dorner has led them on a wild goose chase through three states and mexico and they still have no idea where he to find him. >> we ask that anyone who sees him should not approach or attempt to account him but immediately call 911. >> reporter: police say this may be the biggest man hunt southern california has ever seen. cops searching for an alleged cop killer, someone they fear may be hunting him. george? >> okay, david, thanks. >>> let's get more behind all this. clifrts dorner posted 1,000-word manifesto online. pierre thomas has more on that. >> reporter: good morning, george. authorities said that christopher dorner is their worst nightmare. dorner a former navy reservist is an expert maxman. he claims to have explosives and a rifle capable of slicing through armored cars from long distance. >> you have a trained member of the military who's taking that experience and terrorizing this entire region. >> by all accounts, the 33-year-old led a normal life. >> was always smilin

william bratten is dorner's former boss, the los angeles police chief from 2002 to 2009. nice to have you with us. as you're looking at this, appears to have gone cold. the last thing really that was connected to dorner was the burned out car found on thursday. could that have been a decoy? >> actually, my understanding is that the car got stuck in the mud up there. so there was some thought that it was a diversion to draw attention 80 miles outside of los angeles. but there was speculation that he actually got stuck there. it was unintended. >> that was why it ended up there in that way, that's why it was burned there. but the trail has at this point seemingly gone cold. no sense of where he may be. and you pointed out earlier this morning that this is actually sort of an important date today. >> this is the fourth anniversary of his dismissal from the lapd. four years ago he received his discharge papers, if you will, his dismissal papers on february 9, 2009. so the day of significance in his mind in as much as his grievances steam center on his dismissal. >> this manif

our guests today, governor bratten, reviewing the state of the union, ed rollins and how do you say this name? bill hemmer. martha mccallum. they'll both be on. >> gretchen: you'll hear about that. i have a feeling. or log on for our after the show show. most importantly, have a fantastic day. thanks for sharing your time with us. >> steve: see you tomorrow. >> brian: look, we had one second left. bill: brian, catch you later. good morning, everybody. a fox news alert. the week-long manhunt for a rogue former cop is apparently over, apparently. after a wild standoff and shootout, some of that shootout caught on live television. [gunfire] that is just some of the barrage of gunfire outside a burning cabin where ex-cop chris dorner was believed to be inside holed up. what is believed to be his remains were found insided charred cabin. that has not been confirmed. they're working to i.d. the party. what a wild day it was and still is now. welcome, everybody. i'm bill hemmer. welcome to "america's newsroom". martha: that was something late yesterday afternoon. good morning, everybody. i'm ma

he had a resentment against the l.a.p.d , against chief bratten who said on the -- sat on the curvy couchher innovative police procedures that are credited with dramatically reducing crime. dorner didn't like him. alleged racism in the l.a.p.d he had a parallel career in the united states navy. he was a lieutenant in the united states navy, served some time in the persian gulf and came back from the navy, asked to be retrained by the l.a.p.d he was put back out on patrol. he didn't fit. he was dysfunctional. he got thrown off the force and then he decided to take revenge on anyone who played any role in the disciplinary procedure that found him thrown off the l.a.p.d , he went on this murderous rampage, he killed at least three people. he killed the -- he wants to kill their families, too. >> brian: did he. >> he killed the daughter, the assistants basketball coach at cal state fullerton. her do was his daughter during the disciplinary hearing. so he's after not only other cops, but also the families of these cops. he's absolutely terrorized southern california. he's been sighted everywhe