MI- Police in Detroit say that they plan to seek charges against a 911 dispatcher who allegedly waited more than an hour to send officers to help a woman during a domestic violence dispute last Friday. According to police, the woman called six times. By the time police finally arrived at the scene, the suspect had shot the woman in the chest with an AK-47! The police chief has suspended the dispatcher and says that he’ll ask prosecutors to file charges. In a shocking statistic, residents in Detroit wait an average of 58 minutes for police to arrive after calling 911. The national average is 11 minutes. Comparatively, residents of Islamabad, Pakistan are said to only wait a maximum of five minutes. Arthur Aidala weighed in on the case on today’s Studio B, explaining that once the dispatcher put the call through, police arrived at the scene within eight minutes. Aidala said that it’s difficult to determine a criminal act for what the dispatcher did, but there is a lot of civil exposure. foxnewsinsider/2013/09/05/detroit-911-dispatcher-waits-over-hour-send-police-woman-shot-while-waiting Betty Hood, the mother of the woman shot in the 13800 block of Bringard on Friday, told the Free Press her daughter repeatedly called 911 in the early morning hours trying to prevent an argument at her house from escalating, but police didn’t respond until after her daughter, Jobrena Hood, 38, had been shot. “I want the dispatchers to take their jobs more serious,” Betty Hood said Wednesday night. “And if they do that, there will be less people getting hurt.” Her daughter, she said, was shot in the chest as she stood on the porch waiting for the police to arrive and remained hospitalized Wednesday night. Craig said the dispatcher apparently delayed sending officers the scene on Bringard until after a shift change. He said a supervisor also might be investigated. Another dispatcher is in trouble for taking about 90 minutes to send officers to the stabbing of a woman, who died in a domestic assault in May. According to the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office, Detroit police submitted a warrant request in May “regarding allegations of a delayed response by a 911 dispatcher on a domestic violence call where a female victim was killed,” but the warrant request was returned in June because more investigation was requested. Police Chief James Craig said a review of the department’s communications section is under way. Police have been under fire for slow responses to calls for assistance — an issue that also has emerged in discussions about problems with city services in the wake of the bankruptcy filing earlier this summer. Craig also demoted Cmdr. Todd Bettison, the head of the Police Department’s troubled communications section, to the rank of inspector. Bettison’s demotion was related to the request for criminal charges against one dispatcher and the possibility of charges against a second dispatcher. freep/article/20130904/NEWS01/309040135/Todd-Bettison-Head-of-Detroit-Police-Department-communications-demoted
Posted on: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 14:42:33 +0000
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