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.
No. I expect to have access to concealable firearms to protect myself against thugs, muggers, and in the case of my future wife, rapists during the 20 minutes to one hour it will take a police officer to respond.
In Chicago, yes. Government will not allow people to protect themselves, so government should be held liable for every citizen that dies as a result of the goverments inability to provide protection. Just another unintended consequence of excessive government regulation.
Naw, howsabout just a pit bull--or better yet, a shotgun? Oh, yeah...
Sue the City of Chicago and Mayor Daley *personally* for violating this woman's Constitutionally Guaranteed Rights!
The City of Chicago as gotten away with violating the US Constitution *and* the State of Illinois Constitution! Why?!
I feel another letter to the editors of this states newspapers brewing in my mind ... and it ain't gonna be pretty for Chicago. Funny how everytime I write one, they get published too.
Dial 911 or a pizza and see which one gets there first!
Another Tragic Reason To Change Chicago's Unconstitutional CCW Laws
Doesn't even have to be concealable. In New Mexico, at least when I lived there in the 1980s, concealed carry was illegal for all but LEOs. Albuquerque had "modern" gun control laws. Not as restrictive as Chicago by any means, home or business defense firearms were permitted. But not to carry around.
Outside of Albuquerque you could strap on some six-shooters just like the good old days. But not concealed unless you were a police detective.
Needless to say, nearly all the "gun crimes" in the state were in Albuquerque.
If the husband knew his wife was armed, would he have gone there to harm her?
Bet not.
Anyone not pinged over there who would like to be notified of gun law issues in Illinois, please FR mail me.
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