  Spitty Member Username: Spitty Post Number: 518 Registered: 07-2004 |
This story's been changing all day. At first they wrote that she said it was her husband, who's also a cop. Now they say she shot herself. ... she's apparently now died from the wound. http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.d ll/article?AID=/20070119/UPDAT E/701190441 http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll /article?AID=/20070119/NEWS01/ 70119017 | ||
Southwestmap Member Username: Southwestmap Post Number: 676 Registered: 01-2005 |
The Officer came to work this morning and was, uncharacteristically, emotionally distressed. She left early and was, I have heard, on the phone with her husband when the weapon fired. | ||
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin Post Number: 3607 Registered: 10-2003 |
Karl and his friends must have been having a field day on the freep forum... http://forums.freep.com/viewto pic.php?t=12100 | ||
Jerome81 Member Username: Jerome81 Post Number: 1263 Registered: 11-2003 |
I thought Channel 4 said the husband shot her? | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 7912 Registered: 12-2003 |
That was merely an early suspicion. | ||
Detroitrulez Member Username: Detroitrulez Post Number: 126 Registered: 12-2006 |
such disinformation and misinformation as the detroit media scrambles over a story. More of the "if it bleeds it leads" news stories we have come to expect. sigh.....if only they would get so excited for new business openings and the resurgency and comeback of this great city. | ||
Ravine Member Username: Ravine Post Number: 549 Registered: 01-2006 |
Amazing. An incident like this one occurs, but somehow, the lead story on the 6:00 news is about the paltry dusting of snow currently falling on our fair city. Unless it's a truly mind-blowing blizzard, how is it news? This is Michigan in January, forcryinoutloud. | ||
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul Post Number: 276 Registered: 10-2006 |
It's probably a good thing that the local media didn't have it as their lead story; no need to focus on more crime stories. I posted this on another thread the other day. I think that the author does a good job with the facts and saying what we all see in our heads in a concise way: "An average of 28.5 percent of total news time was devoted to crime alone, and 53.8 percent covered stories of crime, war, or disaster..." "Crime and destruction have come to dominate both national and local programming. According to the Center for Media and Public Affairs, the 1993 national evening broadcasts of ABC, NBC, and CBS contained 1,632 crime stories, up 208 percent from the previous year. Meanwhile, the violent and nonviolent crime rates on American streets have declined since the early 1980s…Local stations pushed toward crime coverage because it represents attention-grabbing material while requiring little or no labor costs spent on background research and because crimes sensationalism garners high Nielson ratings…According to Minnesota Planning, metropolitan [Twin Cities] residents do not generally have high levels of exposure to crime. They are therefore likely to turn to media for information about the issue. Minnesota Planning found in 1994 that residents…held expectations of victimization that were in some cases more than six times their true likelihood of victimization. The disproportionate levels of crime covered by television news programs, then, are significant not only in their large audience and skewed coverage, but in their ability to form perceptions and set the public agenda” (p. 22-24). Orfield, Myron. Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1997 | ||
Al_t_publican Member Username: Al_t_publican Post Number: 135 Registered: 06-2004 |
I don't think that area qualifies for being in Corktown. I lived in Corktown for ten years. Someone might want to check out a Corktown map. | ||
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul Post Number: 280 Registered: 10-2006 |
"behind the old Michigan Central Depot in Detroit" http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll /article?AID=/20070119/NEWS01/ 70119017 That would be part of Mexicantown: front and east of Michigan Central is Corktown, but behind, Mexicatown. Ppl forget that Mexicantown crosses I-75 at vernor to the area immediately behind MCS after all. | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 7922 Registered: 12-2003 |
Noticed the Geodesic dome structures were for sale there last week...on whatever street drives under the MCD tracks, Bagley?! Still shaking my head at this horrible end to what looked to be a marital dispute, and the fact that if she didn't hit an artery she died a very painful death. The whole thing is disturbing to me... | ||
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup Post Number: 1611 Registered: 06-2004 |
newsies never like covering suicides | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 7926 Registered: 12-2003 |
I think this was a very botched job at framing her husband for her wound. As IF she thought she'd survive a close-range gunshot to the abdomen...but she was blaming her husband when she got to the hospital, or on the way there. THAT'S where the news picked up on that angle. | ||
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup Post Number: 1613 Registered: 06-2004 |
that doesn't ring true Gannon - he was the one who left the house, he was on duty at the time guilt tripping him maybe, but not framing him | ||
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard Post Number: 2189 Registered: 10-2004 |
That short street is named Johnson. It's almost on top of a police precinct. Was that the one where she (they) worked? | ||
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul Post Number: 289 Registered: 10-2006 |
Sounds like a DetroitYES! murder investigation is about to get started on this thread! Murder or suicide; who was there when it happened? What were the victims last words? Stay tuned, the clues are coming out. | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 7936 Registered: 12-2003 |
That's one of the newly-closed ones, Livernoisyard...as far as I know. | ||
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard Post Number: 2191 Registered: 10-2004 |
I thought the one closed in SW Detroit not too long ago was on Fort, and they moved to Vernor. Glad I don't need the cops. I wouldn't literally know which way to turn... Maybe there are more closed precincts than I thought. | ||
Ffdfd Member Username: Ffdfd Post Number: 35 Registered: 09-2006 |
The last restructuring got rid of the precincts and gave birth to districts. There are six districts. There were 12 precincts (13 until the one in SW was closed). The Southwestern District is comprised of the former second, third and fourth precincts. Its housed at the new public safety supercenter right off I-75 at Fort and Lansing. The building also houses Engine 27, Ladder 8 and Chief 7, which moved from a 100-plus-year-old firehouse on Junction a few months ago. As for the new district system, there's this from rumor central. quote: | ||
Illwill Member Username: Illwill Post Number: 85 Registered: 11-2003 |
funny how i saw this while in chicago on a cnn breaking news story that stated "detroit police officer was shot on the corner or johnson and vernon". they never bothered to go back and clarify the story after finding out that it was all just an accident. the media just loves to have a field day with detroit. | ||
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard Post Number: 2193 Registered: 10-2004 |
Did CNN say VernoN? | ||
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul Post Number: 297 Registered: 10-2006 |
Wouldn't put it past CNN... | ||
Citylover Member Username: Citylover Post Number: 2048 Registered: 07-2004 |
What was wrong with what cnn broadcast? Was there not a police officer shot at that location? Is it not true that even here in detroit it was uncertain how the officer was shot? Are any news sources supposed to have all the details on a breaking story? You all are neurotic.A cop was shot in detroit and cnn broadcast that ___________ time to adjust your anti-paranoia meds. | ||
Scs100 Member Username: Scs100 Post Number: 310 Registered: 12-2006 |
CL, when a cop gets shot in another city, you usually don't hear about it. And plus, the street is Vernor, not VernoN. Never put it past CNN. At least FOX didn't get hold of it (as far as I know). | ||
Citylover Member Username: Citylover Post Number: 2050 Registered: 07-2004 |
Oh for god sakes spare me scs100. The goddamned detroit media can't get street names and locations correct half the time. And because you don't hear cnn or fox or abc or whoever broadcast cops getting shot in other cities that means they don't broadcast it? Are you so egotistical about Detroit that you really think anyone is out to get detroit..........especially national media?___________ it is really time to adjust your anti-paranoia meds. | ||
Scs100 Member Username: Scs100 Post Number: 311 Registered: 12-2006 |
I'm not egotistical, I'm just saying that it isn't common. Illwill made a good point. The media just doesn't care. | ||
Citylover Member Username: Citylover Post Number: 2051 Registered: 07-2004 |
Doesn't care about what? That they said Vernon rather then Vernor? Is that really relevant to the topic? Would it be likely that someone in Detroit might deduce that it was Vernor? And what exactly does the media not care about? Surely you can't mean something as trivial as a one letter mistake on a street name. | ||
Yvette248 Member Username: Yvette248 Post Number: 377 Registered: 10-2006 |
I think the whole point is that this is a very tragic and sad situation. The police woman had two daughters who have lost their mother. No one in that family will ever be the same again. | ||
Citylover Member Username: Citylover Post Number: 2052 Registered: 07-2004 |
Thanks for bringing that out Yvette.I don't live in Detroit so I don't know why this shit irks me so much but leave it to dyes forumers to make the issue whether or not cnn or some other media is getting it absolutely right when reporting on detroit. It makes me wonder what forumers really think of longtime detroit residents not just the transplanted downtown crowd. | ||
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup Post Number: 1616 Registered: 06-2004 |
not that one has anything to do with the other | ||
Scs100 Member Username: Scs100 Post Number: 312 Registered: 12-2006 |
It was the not following up. But it doesnt matter anymore. What's done is done. | ||
Rhymeswithrawk Member Username: Rhymeswithrawk Post Number: 222 Registered: 11-2005 |
Amazing. An incident like this one occurs, but somehow, the lead story on the 6:00 news is about the paltry dusting of snow currently falling on our fair city. Unless it's a truly mind-blowing blizzard, how is it news? Not that the snow story was worth reporting, but how is a suicide a top news story? |
