[SJackson]

bang

[Dick Bachert]

Yet another CALL 911 AND DIE story!

[wheezer]

Aren't the Million Mom Marchers due for their annual yapfest about now?

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[xfmrman]

Isn't Chicago the city where its illegal to have a pistol in your own home? How sad...

[StriperSniper]

The Chicago Police Department's Internal Affairs Division has launched an investigation to determine why a South Side woman who made three calls to 911 to report that her husband was violating an order of protection was murdered before police arrived on the scene.

Ask John R. Lott Jr.

[lawdude]

The best time to call 911 is while re-loading!

[Liberty Ship]

For the record, exactly what are the gun laws in Chicago that deprived this woman her natural right to self-defense and life?

[School of Rational Thought]

Daley has blood on his hands.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Seventeen minutes can't be too bad. Albuquerque was bragging that their median response time was eleven minutes and that this was one of the best.

[T. P. Pole]

Whether a quicker response would have saved White's life is unknown.

Quicker response may have saved her live, but allowing her to protect herself may have even better.

[Eugene Tackleberry]

"The lady's demeanor was very calm and she was conversational..."

Interesting... if you want quicker police response, it seems you should act as hysterical as possible, rather than calmly and rationally explaining the situation.

[hattend]

"We need to examine what we can do to prevent that kind of occurrence in the future. I'm asking them to investigate it."

Repeal all Chicago gun laws. Simple.

I ask all women out there...if you have a violent ex, who is obviously a threat (why else have a protection order?) would you buy a gun? Can't easily do that in Chicago.

[packrat01]

Bump.

[nightdriver]

"We need to examine what we can do to prevent that kind of occurrence in the future. I'm asking them to investigate it."

Which means that they will sit on it until everyone forgets about it, then file it in the round file.

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

"Langford acknowledged that the 911 call-taker had the option of dispatching a police car while continuing to question the victim, but chose to interview White fully before radioing the first police car shortly after 11:43 p.m."

"The lady's demeanor was very calm and she was conversational. She didn't say anything in the call that indicated she was about to be bodily harmed. She said he got in with a key. There was no indication that he was kicking in a door. Because there was no weapon on the scene, that might have had something to do with it," he said."

My prayers go out to the victim. This was insane!!! In more ways than ONE!!!

TOTALLY neglegent on the police departments part.

I mean.. the dispatcher CHOSE to FULLY INTERVIEW HER?

Secondly,.. it is great that the victim TAPED this!!! The police department just looks totally inept when they try to backtrack by saying "the lady was calm.. there was no indication that she was about to be bodily harmed". BULL!!

Saying a man has just indicated that he is GOING TO KILL YOU.. INDICATES IMMINENT DANGER!!!!

This is just outrageous!!! Totally disgusting!!! To bad the lady hadn't gone out and become proficient in the use of Fire Arms. She'd be alive today!!

[Exit148]

Why oh why didn't she go out a back door, or greet him at the front door with an axe? She was too trusting of the police when she should have gone on the offensive and take matters in her own hands.

I hope the SOaB fries.

[Hoosier Patriot]

Every single person responisible for enacting the current gun laws in Chicago are complicit in this womans murder in my opinion.

But of course, that a gun was the murder weapon will be touted as proof for the necessity of more gun restrictions.

[Republicus2001]

she should have had a gun for self-protection

[DoughtyOne]

IAD opened a "complaint registered" in response to questions raised by the Chicago Sun-Times and by Leslie Landis, domestic violence liaison to Mayor Daley.

I know I'm relieved.  An IAD investigation will take everything back.

The gun laws are designed to appeal to a majority of women.  They feel much safer knowing that it's tough to get ahold of a gun.  Then they are the victims that are unarmed as a result.  The Saturday special guns that are so often touted as "the ones" to limit, are the only protect most poor women can afford.  Consequently the legislation against them turns out to be nothing more than a racist effort to disarm poor minority women.

Gun laws kill people.  They kill the wrong people.  They do not hurt criminals.  They hurt poor defenseless people who cannot arm themselves.