Why is City Manger Baker so involved?
http://www.herald-sun.com/durham/4-733473.html
Baker said he plans to report on his findings Monday night to the City Council, after he has a chance to speak to Sgt. John Shelton, the District 2 patrol supervisor whose cell phone conversation Day overheard.
Baker also said he tried Wednesday to pin down what officers said and did at the Kroger store on Hillsborough Road where they found the woman, and at Duke Hospital, where the overheard phone conversation took place.
From what he's heard from department higher-ups, Baker said, the initial contacts Durham police had with the woman triggered "a pretty fast-moving situation where it appears they're thinking one thing and trying to clarify it."
Day heard one side of the conversation, pulled it out of context and had "drawn his own conclusions from it," Baker said.
Baker added that he's decided a report to the council is in order because police need time to answer his questions, and because he has to finish work this week on a fiscal 2006-07 budget proposal that's due to reach the council on Monday.
LOL - because it takes longer to figure out how to spin it than to simply say what happened