Female dispatcher: Respond to 17 Ware Street for a possible B and E in progress. Two SPs (suspicious persons) barged their way into the home, they have suitcases. R-P 5 - SP. Stand by, trying to get further.
Officer 52 (Crowley): 52. Ware Street right now, 17?
Dispatcher: 17 Ware Street ... both SPs are still in the house, unknown on race. One may be a Hispanic male, not sure.
Officer 52: Is there an apartment number there?
Dispatcher: Negative on the apartment. Single family yellow house.
Officer 52: Stand by. Can you have the caller come to the front door?
Dispatcher: I’m sorry, repeat?
Officer 52: Can you have the caller come to the front door?
Dispatcher: It’s not her house, she doesn’t live there. She’s a witness in this.
Officer 13: C-13 to patrol im on broadway (inaudible)
Dispatcher: Received
Officer 52: 52
Male patrol: Answering 52-
Officer 52: I’m up with a gentleman who says he resides here (background voice) but uncooperative. But uh, keep the cars coming.
Male patrol 1: Copy.
Officer 52: Can you also send the Harvard university police this way?
Male patrol 1: We can send ‘em in.
Officer 17: 17 to 5-2, when you get a chance I need to talk to you.
(14-second pause)
Officer 52: 52 to patrol
Male patrol 1: Answering.
Officer 52: He gave me the ID of a Henry Louis Gates. ...
Male patrol 2: Answering 52.
Officer 52: He gave me the name of the resident of Henry Louis Gates Jr. (background voice) on Harvard property.
Male patrol 2: Sir can you repeat?
(14-second pause)
Male patrol 2: Patrol to 52.
Two simultaneous voices: Try calling him again— (inaudible) to 52.
Male patrol 2: Patrol to 52.
Male patrol 2: Patrol to car 52.
(inaudible)
Male patrol 2: 52 go back to channel 2.
Officer 1-R: 1’s on.
Male patrol 3: Let’s see 12-52.
Officer 18: 18’s on 2.
Male patrol 2: 18 I didn’t copy 52’s last uhh, when he came on 2.
Officer 18: Right, stand by.
Male patrol 3: Patrol to 1-R.
Officer 1-R: (background voice) I’m off on Ware Street with 52.
Male patrol 3: Alright received.
Officer 2: (inaudible) to patrol. Do we have a wagon coming through to the location?
Male patrol 3: Patrol to wagon.
Wagon: Wagon.
Male patrol 3: 17 Ware Street.
Wagon: Copy.
“This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.” ― Euripides, The Phoenician Women
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Police Release Gates Case Radio Calls
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