Poll of the Day > Cops Dismissed Abducted Black Women 'Rumor' Before Victim Escaped

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This is messed up, guys. If you search for this story, you'll find the above, but scroll down a bit and you'll see the disinformation the police spread instead.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kansas-city-woman-basement-police_n_634b0aa0e4b03e8038d4ad5b

A womans harrowing escape from a Missouri basement where she was sexually assaulted and held captive for weeks made national headlines earlier this month.
On Friday, the nonprofit newspaper The Kansas City Defender reported another disturbing factor in the case. Around the time of the womans disappearance from a Kansas City neighborhood, community members had reportedly expressed worry about a possible serial killer, citing the disappearance of multiple Black women and girls. But Kansas City Police dismissed their concerns.

Police tape blocks off the Excelsior Springs residence of Timothy M. Haslett Jr., after the home was boarded up and fenced off Monday, Oct. 10, 2022.
Bill Lukitsch/The Kansas City Star via AP
The 22-year-old Black woman told police that Timothy M. Haslett Jr. had abducted her and imprisoned her in a basement room in Excelsior Springs a city just northeast of Kansas City. There, he whipped and raped her repeatedly, she said. On Oct. 7, after about a month in the basement, she fled and sought help from neighbors while the man was taking his child to school. When she escaped, she was still wearing a metal collar locked with a padlock that authorities had to remove.
The woman also said she had friends who didnt make it and claimed that the man had killed them, Ciara Tharp, one of the neighbors who helped her, told local news station KCTV 5. The Excelsior Springs Police Department confirmed to The Daily Mail that it was actively investigating the possibility of two more women victims.
In the meantime, Haslett, who is white, has been arrested in the case. The 39-year-old pleaded not guilty last week to charges including rape, kidnapping and assault.

Before the womans escape, claims about murdered and missing Black women in Kansas City had gone viral on social media. The Kansas City Defender also published a video in which community leader Bishop Tony Caldwell spoke about the issue, citing a specific stretch of Prospect Avenue where women had gone missing. That same location is where the escaped woman would later say she had been abducted.
At the time, Kansas City Police called the claims completely unfounded, saying in a statement that there is no basis to support this rumor.
On Saturday, police spokesperson Officer Donna Drake told HuffPost that the department made its prior statement because it had not received any formal missing person reports.
We base our investigations on reports made to our department, she said in an email. There have been no reports made to our department of missing persons, more specifically women, missing from Prospect Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. In order to begin a missing persons investigation, someone would need to file a report with our department identifying the missing party.

There are links to more information in the article, particularly this one:
https://kansascitydefender.com/justice/black-woman-kidnapped-prospect-excelsior-springs-serial-killer/
... has more information.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeCXFb_kSoo

We base our investigations on reports made to our department, she said in an email. There have been no reports made to our department of missing persons, more specifically women, missing from Prospect Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. In order to begin a missing persons investigation, someone would need to file a report with our department identifying the missing party.

"hey man, there's people going missing over here"

"no there's not we would get missing persons reports if there was"

idk about you, but that's a missing persons report to me

well, we know how talented the police are...

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hera posted...

"hey man, there's people going missing over here"

"no there's not we would get missing persons reports if there was"

idk about you, but that's a missing persons report to me

That's not what a missing persons report is. And tweets just saying "Oh, people might be going missing!" isn't really help to anybody since they need more to go on. Tweets on social media aren't exactly a reliable source.

And even when a report is filed, it can still be a challenge. Ariel Castro kidnapped several girls and there was a massive amount of media attention around that yet the victim had to save herself.

Zeus is defending a racist serial murderer now...

Lokarin posted...

well, we know how talented the police are...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/5/4/AADnJsAADyGm.png

To be fair, that's not per capita data, which makes a considerable difference in how the numbers compare. To be less fair, it doesn't change the fact that the US leads by a significant margin if we remove Malta and Luxembourg (whose populations are so low that a single killing makes a significant per capita difference).

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/6/7/AAB4-6AADyLf.png

ZangsBeard posted...

Zeus is defending a racist serial murderer now...

Why is that not surprising

Count_Drachma posted...

That's not what a missing persons report is. And tweets just saying "Oh, people might be going missing!" isn't really help to anybody since they need more to go on. Tweets on social media aren't exactly a reliable source.

And even when a report is filed, it can still be a challenge. Ariel Castro kidnapped several girls and there was a massive amount of media attention around that yet the victim had to save herself.

what made you decide to defend a racist torturing serial killer, zeus

let's go down the rabbit hole of your mind and get to the root cause

adjl posted...

To be fair, that's not per capita data, which makes a considerable difference in how the numbers compare. To be less fair, it doesn't change the fact that the US leads by a significant margin if we remove Malta and Luxembourg (whose populations are so low that a single killing makes a significant per capita difference).

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/6/7/AAB4-6AADyLf.png

2.88?

That means the police in the US are only 0.12 kills/capita away from being technically a mass shooting in and of themselves