Russell Williams Lessons

[Rockslinger]

Here are a couple more lessons from the Russell Williams case.

1) If you are the victim of a crime, PLEASE PLEASE report the incident to the police. The police are now saying that there were no warnings about the B&E's because the victims failed to report them so there was no obvious pattern known to the police.

2) If the police knock on your door, please open your door. You don't have to invite them inside. Apparently, a policewoman saw a strange car near Jessica Loyd's house and knocked on her door but there was no answer. Russell Williams at the time was hiding in her backyard.

 

[Brill]

Something for the police to learn as well, treat panty theft calls seriously.

I bet they usually have a good laugh when these incidents are reported.

 

[Rockslinger]

Something for the police to learn as well, treat panty theft calls seriously.
I bet they usually have a good laugh when these incidents are reported.

It's tragic when something like a pantie theft escalates to murder in less than a year's time.

When someone vandalized my door a few years ago, I called my Councillor's office and they said to report the incident to the police. The police took a report over the phone and said that they would see if there is a pattern developing. One never knows if a broken door leads to a B&E, rape and murder.

 

[oldjones]

Police response may not always be a uniform showing up at the door, as Rockslinger says. We'll never pay enough taxes to make that a reality. If we want good, competent policing, we have to stop imagining that we're gonna get the full CSI treatment when we call to report a slit windowscreen and some missing DVDs. Assuming we know what makes competent policework, and that we're not getting it so there's no point in making the call is the worst kind of bad citizenship, and makes for a self-fulfilling assessment.

 

[simon482]

i heard something that the cops are looking into missing persons cases overseas that happened when he was over there.

 

[fuji]

2) If the police knock on your door, please open your door. You don't have to invite them inside. Apparently, a policewoman saw a strange car near Jessica Loyd's house and knocked on her door but there was no answer. Russell Williams at the time was hiding in her backyard.

I think because she wasn't home yet. I think he was lying in wait for her at her home when she came home later. I could be wrong.

 

[Brill]

If only the policewoman had noted the license number, he would have been caught - possibly before Jessica was killed the next day.

But life is full of "if onlys", the poor woman must be beating herself up about missing this. It's still a lesson to be learned for other cops.

 

[needinit]

Report incidents

I reported a number of incidents near my place over a short period of time - apologizing for reporting them , hope I wasn't bugging them etc. The Police said "Please report incidents as it helps us establish a pattern"

It so happened a few weeks later the police were inside a home (invited in by the owner) that was broken into and were waiting for the burglar - in the papers after it was noted they had established a pattern for the person to the point where they predicted where and when he would strike! I was pretty impressed.