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Started by HoneySuckle, September 26, 2008, 11:50:21 PM

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MDepr2007

#15
September 30, 2008, 07:42:28 AM
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Originally posted by patric

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Originally posted by HoneySuckle

I am intrigued by the scanner talk.  Why wouldn't these incidents be reported on the news anyway?


Sometimes it's almost routine, just as not every traffic accident or car chase makes the news either in print or on TV.  Sometimes it's because they didnt get a response from police to "flesh-out" the story.


That and they don't have the staff to keep up. On weekends there might not be anyone on the job to send someone out. I was actually told that one time when I asked one of the PJs why they didn't cover it...

carltonplace

#16
September 30, 2008, 08:00:39 AM
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Originally posted by HoneySuckle

I am intrigued by the scanner talk.  Why wouldn't these incidents be reported on the news anyway?

On another note...I was listening to talk by some people who are very anti Hispanics and they firmly believe that most of our crime and the rise in crime has a lot to do with the labourers (legal and illegal) that we see around Tulsa now.  

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I think our former KKKFAQ morning host played up these fears. I don't hear this garbage as much now that he is gone.

Conan71

#17
September 30, 2008, 09:54:13 AM
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Originally posted by HoneySuckle

I am intrigued by the scanner talk.  Why wouldn't these incidents be reported on the news anyway?

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Why?  So we could all live in paranoid fear, and have our news focus soley on miscreants?  Newscasts would have to double or triple in length if you wanted to hear about every single assault which happens in a 24 hour period in the area.

Many small towns publish the daily police blotter.  In a city the size of Tulsa, I can't even begin to imagine how many calls they field a day.

"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first" -Ronald Reagan

MDepr2007

#18
September 30, 2008, 01:36:00 PM
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Originally posted by Conan71

quote:
Originally posted by HoneySuckle

I am intrigued by the scanner talk.  Why wouldn't these incidents be reported on the news anyway?

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Why?  So we could all live in paranoid fear, and have our news focus soley on miscreants?  Newscasts would have to double or triple in length if you wanted to hear about every single assault which happens in a 24 hour period in the area.

Many small towns publish the daily police blotter.  In a city the size of Tulsa, I can't even begin to imagine how many calls they field a day.




They could cover more local news if they would leave the national news to the national news. maybe stop trying to be the Entertainment Tonight Show also

Conan71

#19
September 30, 2008, 04:17:42 PM
For those who want more bad news and no feature stories, they can buy a police scanner...

"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first" -Ronald Reagan

Breadburner

#20
September 30, 2008, 07:38:29 PM
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Originally posted by MDepr2007

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Originally posted by sgrizzle

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Originally posted by MDepr2007

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Originally posted by sgrizzle

Already have one, thanks.


Point?


Why thank you, I'm sure you'll earn one someday.


No thanks , I'm not that vain  to need any. You keep them[:X]


Herpes.....?
 

HoneySuckle

#21
October 01, 2008, 06:01:36 PM
I meant about the big stuff, like shootings, murders, big robberies, rapes.  Wait, is that too much news?[:D]
 

Michael71

#22
October 02, 2008, 11:35:23 AM
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Originally posted by MDepr2007

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Originally posted by Conan71

QuoteOriginally posted by HoneySuckle

I am intrigued by the scanner talk.  Why wouldn't these incidents be reported on the news anyway?

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They could cover more local news if they would leave the national news to the national news. maybe stop trying to be the Entertainment Tonight Show also


We could really do without the doctor-on-call & vet-on-call.

"Next we have a caller from Tulsa...Tulsa?...are you there Tulsa?...Tulsa?"

It annoys me everytime!!
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"Why be part of the 'brain drain' that gets sucked out of Tulsa...The opportunity IS there, you just gotta make it!!"--Eric Marshall

Michael71

#23
October 02, 2008, 11:38:47 AM
I was on campus last Friday & heard that there was some death threat left in cut-out letters on a table in the restaurant.

Racial slurs, etc...

Never heard anything about that on the news!
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"Why be part of the 'brain drain' that gets sucked out of Tulsa...The opportunity IS there, you just gotta make it!!"--Eric Marshall

Townsend

#24
October 02, 2008, 11:40:01 AM
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Originally posted by MichaelWayne_71

We could really do without the doctor-on-call & vet-on-call.

"Next we have a caller from Tulsa...Tulsa?...are you there Tulsa?...Tulsa?"

It annoys me everytime!!


Some of those questions on "Doctor on Call" are amazing.

"I've got some sort of horrible itch"

sgrizzle

#25
October 02, 2008, 01:53:20 PM
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Originally posted by MichaelWayne_71

I was on campus last Friday & heard that there was some death threat left in cut-out letters on a table in the restaurant.

Racial slurs, etc...

Never heard anything about that on the news!


Maybe it was a word jumble.

patric

#26
October 02, 2008, 02:07:35 PM
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Originally posted by MichaelWayne_71

I was on campus last Friday & heard that there was some death threat left in cut-out letters on a table in the restaurant.
Racial slurs, etc...
Never heard anything about that on the news!


Now you know why they have their own police departments.  Easier to keep rapes and other violence quiet.
"Tulsa will lay off police and firemen before we will cut back on unnecessarily wasteful streetlights."  -- March 18, 2009 TulsaNow Forum

TURobY

#27
October 02, 2008, 02:27:43 PM
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Originally posted by patric


Now you know why they have their own police departments.  Easier to keep rapes and other violence quiet.


Except that the campus police blotter is posted in the campus newspaper.
---Robert

patric

#28
October 02, 2008, 06:27:23 PM
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Originally posted by TURobY

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Originally posted by patric


Now you know why they have their own police departments.  Easier to keep rapes and other violence quiet.


Except that the campus police blotter is posted in the campus newspaper.


Not everything makes the blotter.
Look how much was sanitized at OU when the engineering student was stopped from bringing a bomb into the stadium in 2005, or for that matter, search DOE reports on colleges under-reporting serious crimes.
"Tulsa will lay off police and firemen before we will cut back on unnecessarily wasteful streetlights."  -- March 18, 2009 TulsaNow Forum

patric

#29
October 05, 2008, 10:44:41 AM
quote:
Originally posted by MDepr2007

quote:
Originally posted by patric

quote:
Originally posted by HoneySuckle

I am intrigued by the scanner talk.  Why wouldn't these incidents be reported on the news anyway?


Sometimes it's almost routine, just as not every traffic accident or car chase makes the news either in print or on TV.  Sometimes it's because they didnt get a response from police to "flesh-out" the story.


That and they don't have the staff to keep up. On weekends there might not be anyone on the job to send someone out. I was actually told that one time when I asked one of the PJs why they didn't cover it...


Sometime there are other "Catch 22's" as well.
Most crime reporting is formatted with the police speaking as the authority, but their union discourages officers from commenting on incidents where they might be found at-fault.
For instance, how much did you read/hear about the 4-year old hit by the police car Thursday on the west side near Bowen and Rosedale?
No interview, no story.  Lazy journalism, IMHO.  
"Tulsa will lay off police and firemen before we will cut back on unnecessarily wasteful streetlights."  -- March 18, 2009 TulsaNow Forum
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