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City confronts deadly 911 delay
The Chicago Sun Times ^
Posted on 05/09/2002 10:23:30 AM PDT by Rollee
City confronts deadly 911 delay
May 9, 2002
BY FRAN SPIELMAN CITY HALL REPORTER
The Daley administration swung into full damage control mode Wednesday as the Police Department continued its internal investigation aimed at determining 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.
The Internal Affairs Division probe could result in a standard response time being set for such calls, as well as a new policy requiring 911 call-takers to dispatch a police car while questioning a victim calling to report an order of protection violation, said Leslie Landis, Mayor Daley's domestic violence liaison.
That's not what happened Friday night, when Ronyale White, 31, made the first of three 911 calls. Although White was calling to say her estranged husband had used a key to let himself in to her South Side home, call-takers chose to complete a long interview with her before radioing the first police car.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported earlier this week that two police cars converged on White's home 17 minutes after the victim's first 911 call. White was already dead. Her husband, Louis Drexel, has been charged with murder.
On Wednesday, Daley ordered police officials and Landis to hold separate news conferences in an apparent attempt to minimize the political fallout among female voters in general and reassure battered women in particular.
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: banglist
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Needless to say, I expected this. One way to reassure battered women is to teach them how to use the "equalizers". I, for one, would find that skill to be extremely reassuring.
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posted on
05/09/2002 10:23:30 AM PDT
by
Rollee
To: Rollee
The Daley administration swung into full damage control mode Wednesday as the Police Department continued its internal investigation aimed at determining 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. Because the police cannot be relied on to save your life. If this woman had been armed, her husband would have been the one killed...
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posted on
05/09/2002 10:28:36 AM PDT
by
SunStar
To: Rollee; #3Fan; 1 spark; 24Karet; <1/1,000,000th%; A.J.Armitage; AD from SpringBay; AeWingnut...
This would be an appropriate time to be bringing up the Chicago pistol ban and the need for a State-wide CCW....
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posted on
05/09/2002 10:29:12 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
To: Rollee
Do you have a link to this article?
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posted on
05/09/2002 10:30:10 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
To: Rollee
If I were a family member, since the Supreme Court has determined that the police is not required to protect the citizens, I would sue the city for prohibiting her from owning a gun.
To: pro2A Mom; technochick99; Saundra Duffy; dbwz; basil; PistolPaknMama; Hotline
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posted on
05/09/2002 10:31:03 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
To: Rollee
Thanks to Rat Gun Control Thugs in Chicago, another abused woman dies.
If she had one of the so called Saturday Night Specials and knew how to use it. She would be alive and the clymer would be getting bored with maggots.
To: Lazamataz
Chicago pistol ban
I'm sure that if her husband used a gun in the murder it would be splashed all over the news that the gun killed someone.
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posted on
05/09/2002 10:34:33 AM PDT
by
lelio
To: bang_list
Dial 911 and die.
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posted on
05/09/2002 10:37:19 AM PDT
by
coloradan
To: Blood of Tyrants,ALL
sue the city for prohibiting her from owning a gun. Who is GOOD who would do it pro bono?
Class action?
Was the Justice Dept. statement a wink and a nod that now is the time to turn the tables?
To: Rollee
"You wanna get Capone? Here's how you get him. He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way."
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posted on
05/09/2002 10:39:52 AM PDT
by
mhking
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To: Lazamataz
The article's actual title, which I mistakenly cut off, is "City Confronts 911 Delay". There is a link to the Sun Times, and the article, at the top of the post. How I was able to get that link on there is beyond me. I am trying to brush up on my techo skills.
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posted on
05/09/2002 10:40:22 AM PDT
by
Rollee
To: Rollee
The Daley administration swung into full damage control mode Wednesday as the Police Department continued its internal investigation aimed at determining 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. yeahsureright... the police will protect you.
This in the city of Chicago, a city with one of the most restrictive gun control laws in the nation!
To: Rollee
Hey Ryan snad daley, get your cage thugs rolling.
Nobody in Chicago will be safe unitl you get rid of all those legal guns up there.
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posted on
05/09/2002 10:45:30 AM PDT
by
dts32041
To: Rollee
Whats wrong with taking 17 minutes to get there anyway? Ever try driving in Chicago? Do people expect to be assigned their own personal cops, waiting by the front door?
To: Hobey Baker
Go for it!
To: Rollee
Dial M-911 For Murder.
Leni
To: Rollee;all
Link to another thread about the crime (for background information).
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