The Observation Deck

This was on cleveland.com. The title alone upsets me. I hope this is not going to be on the front page of the PD tomorrow. Might be in the metro section. I'm glad they took the opinion of one person to write this piece:

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2007/07 ... t_mcd.html

Dave Sharosky wrote:This was on cleveland.com. The title alone upsets me. I hope this is not going to be on the front page of the PD tomorrow. Might be in the metro section. I'm glad they took the opinion of one person to write this piece:

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2007/07 ... t_mcd.html

Dave

Even the article has some contradictions.

It mentions under 4 minutes, which is what it took the first police car to get there from the call. Then mentions 7 minutes for the ambulance, which was rerouted. When I got to the scene no more than a couple minutes after the ambulance, Sloane was blocked by the fire department. I find it hard to believe that the fire department would not let the fire department through. Could happen, but unlikely.

All police calls are coded with codes relating to emergency speed, what should be dropped, etc. This would have started out as a little more serious than a nuisance call. Which quickly escalated to what I believe is a code one, weapon seen, all cars needed. I will try to clarify this today.

I also wonder if the man quoted was timing or not. When I was hit by a train. The train stopped, I got out of the car. Went to the first house and rang the bell for help, then the second, then the third, by the fourth the police had me sitting down and relaxed. I would have thought it was hours, it was 1.3 minutes.

I would have thought a better story which we are working on is why the Cleveland police never picked him up on his warrant for hitting the mother of his child repeatedly with a glass bottle in the head. Or responded to the news that the shooter had bought a gun and thought of suicide two days earlier.

FWIW


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I remember when I first pulled up to the scene, I took Kenilworth down to the nature's bin parking lot.

this was around..... 11:45. and the ambulance at the firestation on kenilworth and detroit was just pulling back into the station because I was stuck behind it as it was backing into the parking lot of the station.

But if you read the comments from readers below the article, it's almost all Lakewood residents who say that police, fire and ems get to scenes faster than anywhere else around here.

Of course they don't interview any Lakewood residents for the story, they get someone from Garfield Heights to tell it how it is in this city.