Thursday, August 18, 2011

Groper response delayed

From the Queens Gazette:

An Astoria mom is lashing out at the NYPD after police at the 114th Precinct took more than three hours to respond to 911 calls she made after a man followed her daughter and a friend into an elevator at her Astoria apartment building.

Julia Hess told reporters she called 911 three times after her daughter and a friend, each 10-years-old, ran screaming into her 29th Street apartment at about 4:30 p.m. on August 5. The terrified girls told Hess, 42, that a man who entered the elevator with them asked for their names and grabbed his crotch, asking “Do you want to see it?”

A surveillance video shows the man touching the girls as they hurried out of the elevator, police sources said.

Hess walked to the 114th Precinct at about 7:15 p.m. on August 5 to report the incident. While at the Astoria Boulevard stationhouse, Hess received a call on her cell phone stating that the police were waiting for her at her apartment.

Police officials confirmed that they are investigating the incident to determine what delayed cops, preventing them from rapidly responding to Hess’ 911 calls.

12 comments:

georgetheatheist said...

911 now as farcical as 311?

www.nra.org

Anonymous said...

How about the recurring broken car windows on 20th Avenue.

Does anyone give a shit in that nabe?

Thank heavens their local representative is the Public Safety chair (remember his statemanlike actions during the blackout?) who will be our next DA.

He must be doing a great job. The locals will give him 80% of the vote.

Anonymous said...

CB1 the Community Board from hell.

Unless you are a developer, they don't give a shit about anything else.

That's one place that needs a big turnover if things are ever gonna change.

Anonymous said...

Unless you are a developer, they don't give a shit about anything else.
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Riiiiigghhhhttttt, the millionare developers and the minimum wage rookie street cops are all drinking buddies and in cahoots. I would guess the patrol cops give even less of a crap about developers than they care about the general citizenry.

Queens Crapper said...

Comment was about the community board, moron, not the cops.

Anonymous said...

So where does the community board stand on quality of life issues in the Wild West?

Wait a minute, call Vallone's office for the answer.

astorians.com NOT! said...

meanwhile, slowly, painfully, the Astoria community comes to grips with criticising a person in government.

Its not pretty. Its painful for their little minds. Its messy.

But like a dog walking on hind legs we should not comment on how its done, but marvel that its done at all.

http://www.astorians.com/community/index.php?topic=21477.0

Anonymous said...

"Police officials confirmed that they are investigating the incident to determine what delayed cops, preventing them from rapidly responding to Hess’ 911 calls."

Hmmmmm what delayed the cops, the million dollar question. I don't know, could it be that we only have around 4 cars on patrol in each precinct and each one is backlogged with numerous jobs to go to?

Anonymous said...

How about the recurring broken car windows on 20th Avenue.

Haven't heard about this. Can you elaborate? Where on 20th Ave, when, how often. Thanks.

Anonymous said...

Not sure how anyone cares about car windows in relation to a pervert who sexually abuses 10-year old girls. This freak isn't going to stop and those girls aren't going to just brush off the experience. The mothers aren't going to say, "oh well, so someone touched our daughters harmfully, at least no one broke our car window."

Anonymous said...

Hmmmmm what delayed the cops, the million dollar question. I don't know, could it be that we only have around 4 cars on patrol in each precinct and each one is backlogged with numerous jobs to go to?
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You know that is what the problem is, I know that is what the problem is. However, the media, and apparently a good portion of the people in this city prefer to buy Kelly and Bloomberg's nonsense that all is well, crime is down and the police department is capable of doing more with less. Unfortunately we are going to be reading many more of these stories in the near future.

Anonymous said...

you'll never find out what's the truth behind this 3 hour response to a pervert in action and most likely they'll simply state"unsubstantiated complaint" and TELL this woman she wasn't calling 911--she was dialing 311 as THEIR TAPES have no 911 call for the times in question......and how many times within the past couple of years has the command BEEN CHANGED over there @ the 114 ? a few times and the BS continues nonstop. Too bad mom didn't secure the kids and scream for help and go after the POS armed with a bat ...but of course the children were troubled and scared by what this male did to them . Now being they have the tape and the kids must have talked to one of the detectives,WHY IS THERE NO description and photo posted ?