Questions for Sheriff Dupnik

At Patterico’s Pontifications, Patrick Frey raises a few questions about Sheriff Dupnik.

• The suspected shooter has made death threats before and been contacted by law-enforcement officers, but the threats weren’t against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Dupnik said. The suspect is unstable, Dupnik said, but the sheriff would not say he is “insane.”

• “As we understand it, there have been law enforcement contacts with the individual where he made threats to kill,” Dupnik said during a press conference Saturday evening. But he wouldn’t say who those threats were aimed at.

• We know that CBS News reported that Lougher’s community college professor had called 911...

Is Dupnik trying to hide the fact that he failed to protect the people who were killed and wounded by a known lunatic?  We report, you decide.