Posted on 07/20/2017 6:55:16 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
Women's rights advocates have questions following the release of transcripts of the calls 40-year-old Justine Damond made to 911 before she was fatally shot by a Minneapolis police officer Saturday night.
Was the nine minutes and 41 seconds it took officers to arrive on the scene too long? And why did Damond need to call 911 twice to report a possible sexual assault behind her home?
Damond called for the first time at 11:27 p.m. Saturday. She told the dispatcher she could hear someone behind her house.
"I'm not sure if she's having sex or being raped," she said.
It's been going on for a while and I think she tried to say help and it sounds distressed," she added.
Eight minutes later, she called 911 again.
"No one's here and (I) was wondering if they got the address wrong," she asked.
Officers did show up, nine minutes and 41 seconds after the first emergency call.
"Since she's reporting a sexual assault in progress, we're concerned about the length of response time," said Caroline Palmer, the public and legal affairs manager for the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault (MNCASA).
Palmer also questioned why Damond had to call twice for police. And why things ended the way they did.
Bystander intervention is key to preventing these types of crimes.
"This was an ideal situation for bystander intervention to come through and work, unfortunately, it resulted very differently for Justine and the potential victim," said Hannah Laniado, the prevention program manager with the MNCASA.
KSTP looked into Minneapolis police response times, and found the average response to high priority 911 calls was nine minutes and five seconds during the first part of 2016.
The end of 2015 was slower with an average time of nine minutes and 26 seconds.
"She (Justine) was doing what we hope everyone would do and it ended tragically," Palmer said.
Palmer and Laniado are also concerned about the potential victim of the sexual assault, saying they want to make sure that person knows there help out there.
So...the woman called the police to report a possible sexual assault, and the police took a long time to show up and shot her when they did show?
Another thing that bothers me about this whole thing is, nowhere in the 911 transcripts does the 911 dispatcher tell the caller to stay in her house, lock the doors and wait for the police to contact her.
I thought that was SOP.
Don’t call police if they are sending Sharia cops.
figure that they were cruising around their area...its Saturday night 11.30PM so they were on their toes ...I would presume...
They get a call and speed to the address..well they do on TV...
They can go as fast as the traffic etc allows so if they were going 60 or so at least were they 9 miles from their appointed duty area ???
How much area do they have to cover ???
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11:30... Shift change?
Prayer time?
Shooter had to roll up his rug, ya know.
Heh. Their “response time” was a lot longer. Welcome to the party, ladies. Don’t jump to any conclusions the evidence doesn’t illuminate for you.
Interesting looking at the bigger picture. There was some evil afoot in Minnesota. Beyond just Officer Noor. I would look for a larger manifestation of evil. A pastor I knew in Minneapolis told me of sensing it decades ago. Larger manifestations of evil have a way of setting off orgies of finger pointing that distract from addressing the devil through the love of God.
Just my $0.02
A sexual assault in progress is a Code 1 response, lights and sirens. That should not have taken nine minutes.
That is, if the dispatcher relayed the correct information.
Big city agencies have a TREMENDOUS call volume and often officers have calls stacked (waiting) when they log on and when they log off. Again, most are routine order maintenance but this one should have been a priority.
Sorry Code 3 response, Priority 1.
Ok they were slower then the mean average of the data provided, but what is the standard deviation and confidence interval? Only then can we know if they were really outside the norm for response times.
Still a tragedy and I have yet to hear if they found evidence of a sexual assault having occurred in the stories I’ve read.
There were no lights, no sirens...
There should have been and another policy violation they will answer for.
“.........concerned about the potential victim of the sexual assault, saying they want to make sure that person knows there help out there.”......
Perhaps the “council” didn’t consider there may not have been an assault but someone overly energized while having sex.
If she was overhearing consensual sex could this be construed as slut shaming?
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