Cops stood by while a woman was terrorized by a stalker in her home for 12 hours and then killed

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Read this story a few days ago and it hasn't left me. San Diego cops stood by while a woman was terrorized by a stalker in her home for 12 hours, even as neighbors begged them to do something. Stalker then emerged and told them the woman was dead.

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NBC 7 Investigates: San Diego Police Face Scrutiny Over Woman's Murder
Neighbors called 911 begging for help nearly two hours before police arrived to the victim’s Rancho Penasquitos home.
12:14 PM · Jul 18, 2022

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/nbc-7-investigates-san-diego-police-face-scrutiny-over-womans-murder/ar-AAZyqCv

Wilted flowers mark the outdoor staircase leading up to the condo where police say a San Diego man murdered Connie Dadkhah, 45. That man, Parrish Chambers Jr., 44, is now sitting in a jail cell without bail awaiting trial for murder.

Yet three of Connie’s neighbors who spoke with NBC 7 Investigates feel police deserve some of the blame.

“Had they just done their job, she would still be alive,” said Michelle.

“It’s incredibly upsetting,” said Mike. “It’s really unbelievable. Very, very scary.”

“I just feel such a strange combination of anxiety and anger and sadness,” said Sally. “It could have been prevented.”

In order to protect their identities, NBC 7 Investigates is using fictitious names for the neighbors.

Officers found Connie’s lifeless body inside her condo Wednesday morning, June 15. But neighbor interviews, dispatch records, 911 call timestamps and surveillance video all gathered by NBC 7 Investigates show the calls for help started nearly 12 hours earlier.

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Tell me again why we need so many cops?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. Fuck the police. Abolish it all.

[duckworth969]

2. Police are not required to protect you

https://www.barneslawllp.com/blog/police-not-required-protect

Then what good are they?!

[The Unmitigated Gall]

10. Too bad Scalia and Rehnquist

Had the good fortune to live out their lives peacefully, and never having to beg for their lives to a homicidal maniac while the cops wait around outside.

[MarcA]

12. To provide Control and Order on the Masses

while doing after the fact investigations, paperwork and serving and protecting their own.

[Dave says]

33. A snippet of a great poem from DA Levy:

The police
Protect the banks
And everything else is secondary

[Samrob]

3. Disgusting. I believe they killed more people than they saved for the past 15 years. nt

[TxGuitar]

4. All cops are pigs

There's no such thing as a good cop.

[LAS14]

6. The first step toward renewed civility in our society.... nt

[housecat]

40. All right-wing racist cops are lower than pigs. Some good ones on the left.

[Solly Mack]

5. K&R

[duckworth969]

13. Six figure salaries?!! WTF?!

Am I reading that right?

That can’t possibly be the case…

[Baked Potato]

14. Oh, yes, it's real.

[Mr.Bill]

17. In California their pensions are likely six figures.

And that's with thirty years on the job. They can literally retire in their early to mid-50s and if they live to be 75-80 they can literally make more money in retirement than they made working.

[modochartaigh]

34. Pension

My pension for 30 years as an RN in one of the largest hospital systems in Texas is $1,860/month. But if the Republicans get their way and abolish pensions it will be pensions like mine that they go after, not police or military pensions.

[Mr.Bill]

35. My brother-in-law is a retired California fireman.

Same pension program as cops. He did retire as a Captain. He was 53 when he retired.

His monthly pension check is over $10,000 after deductions.

[modochartaigh]

38. Pensions vary wildly by state

Pensions vary wildly by state and city. So much of the US is protected by volunteer firemen with no pensions. Nursing was no picnic but I never had to run into a burning building either. And relatively few nurses have a pension, much less work long enough at a place with a pension that the pension is decent.

[dalton99a]

21. Plus there is a big pension waiting

Without getting your uniform wrinkled or wearing out your shoes

[iemanja]

30. Regular pay and total pay shouldn't be added together

It's total pay plus benefits.

[Celerity]

37. snapshot

[DFW]

8. The cops who stood by and did nothing

They deserve the same charges as the killer.

[Rebl2]

24. I agree

Sounds similar to Uvalde cops.

[Kaleva]

9. Some will point to this as an example of why we should have guns

[Baked Potato]

11. Yes, I agree. Things are pointing in that direction.

Sometimes, I think by design.

[JI7]

15. I thought he was holding her hostage

but reading this he was outside trying to get in and officers didn't arrive until an hour after first call for help.

And he has a record and had been after her since at least 2 years ago.

So the piece of shit should not even have been free.

[chowder66]

22. The first calls for help started 12 hours earlier. The call was upgraded and the response should

have been 14 minutes but it was 45 minutes. They knocked on her door and could see the broken glass but they didn't go in. They left and came back the next morning when the killer told a neighbor to call 911 because she was dead.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/nbc-7-investigates-san-diego-police-face-scrutiny-over-womans-murder/ar-AAZyqCv

[housecat]

16. Have to be magat police

[Rebl2]

25. YEP

[ejbr]

18. Disturbing

How cavalier they are. Scum

[bucolic_frolic]

19. They could have at least gone in with their guns blazing

Fear now extending to trigger finger?

[Evolve Dammit]

20. Very disturbing.

[niyad]

23. Many years ago, six SDPD cops shot and killed a mentally ill man who, they

claimed, threatened them and made them fear for their lives. He was "armed" with a bamboo garden stake.

[Nevilledog]

26. C'mon, it's not scary if they get to shoot folk who can't fight back.

[niyad]

28. I suggested that, if the fully-armed six of them felt threatened by a guy

with a garden stake, that perhaps retraining was in order. . retraining in another field that did not involve weapons. The department, for some reason, ignored me.

[XanaDUer2]

27. She met her killer

Through her volunteer services for mental health. No good deed

[area51]

29. omg

[rockfordfile]

31. In the video the neighbor should've been more aggressive to the police response at the time

It's time for CA to bring back the death penalty as a option.

[iemanja]

32. Good thing it wasn't something threatening

Like air freshener dangling in the car. That will get you killed.

[Calculating]

36. This is why I own guns

The police sure aren't going to help me.

[aggiesal]

39. I know that area well. I had 2 sets of friends that lived in that same apartment complex. ...

The police department for that area of San Diego, is literally 2 minutes away.
Driving distance is only about half a mile.

We celebrated a wedding at that complex's "club house".
I always thought it was safe with the police department near by.