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The
North Carolina Family Policy Council
http://www.ncfpc.org
Newspaper
Stories
Some
of the newspaper articles about Gary Rummer's death that Sheriff Causey
wants you to disbelieve:
1.
News Observer (Raleigh, NC), July 5, 2003 Saturday
2. Star-News (Wilmington, NC), July
5, 2003, Saturday, Editorial;
3. The Associated Press State &
Local Wire, July 4, 2003, Friday
4. Star-News (Wilmington, NC), July
4, 2003, Friday
5. Star-News, July 1, 2003, Tuesday, Editorial;
6. Star-News (Wilmington, NC), June 27, 2003, Friday, Editorial
7. Star-News (Wilmington, NC), June 26, 2003, Thursday, Front
Page
North Carolina
law makes it a crime to play a video poker machine that you know to be
illegally operated. Our undercover investigator did not play the machines.
"This
one woman slammed her fist down and began cussing up a storm, she had
just spent her entire paycheck in two hours"
Star
News June 7, 2003
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DEATH REPORT
The Death of
Inmate Report, a document that is to be filed with the State within 5
days of an inmate's death was filed 5 months late. It is a criminal offense
to file the report later than 5 days.
To see a copy
of the report click
here
Inmates
of the County Jail are by-and-large unable to afford bail. Many are not
yet convicted of any crime. Some are only incarcerated for a few hours.
Some are awaiting trial for years. Mr. Rummer failed to perform the 24
hours of community service his DWI conviction and sentencing required
of him. He was taken to the jail. 4 days later he is rushed to the hospital.
Two days after that he was taken off life support.
Dr. Wecht has performed
approximately 14,000 autopsies and has supervised, reviewed or been consulted
on approximately 30,000 additional post-mortem examinations. In addition,
Dr. Wecht frequently appears as a guest on national TV and radio shows
to discuss various medical-legal and scientific subjects, including medical
malpractice; alcohol and drug abuse; the assassinations of President John
F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy; the death of Elvis Presley;
and the O.J. Simpson and JonBenet Ramsey cases.
Cyril
H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law
Department
of Justice Website Civil Rights Division
DOJ Website for the Criminal Investgation Unit
Jail
Populations
*
From
1990 to 2002, the number of jail inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents rose
from 163 to 231, New Hanover County's population is over150,000 people.
According to National averages we should have 346 people in our jail system.
We are 50 or so inmates over that. Why is it that the County Commissioners
could not have foreseen the need for a larger jail and acted on it earlier?
Department
of Justice Jail Statistics
Crime
Statistics
*
2001
DOJ INDEX OF CRIME STATISTICS
Our Burglary Rate is
1,797.6 crimes commited per 100,000 in population,
the Washington, DC Metro
Area is 496.4, New York City is 381.1, Oakland is 730.6.
Ours
is 1,797.6
A
woman in
Wilmington is more thanTWICE AS LIKELY to be raped here than in
Washington, DC. OUR RATE is 41.7 per 100,000 and DC is 20.7, NYC is 17.8.
Again, our rate is 41.7!!!
Department
of Justice Crime Statistics
District Attorney John Carriker issued
a Press Release on June 2nd. This was his statement regarding the investigation
into the death of Gary Rummer.
To go to the his Press Release
click
here
OTHER
INMATE DEATHS
SEPT. 1, 2002: Mark Christopher Davis, 35, untried, 'delirium
tremens.' Mr. Davis was committed to the jail at 8:30 a.m. Aug. 29. He
was pronounced dead at 11:30 p.m. Sept. 1 at a hospital.
JAN. 27, 2002: Benny James Crumel, 30, untried, ingestion
of cocaine. Mr. Crumel was committed to the jail at 9:50 p.m. Jan. 26.
He was pronounced dead at 2:14 a.m. Jan. 27 at a hospital.
AUG. 5, 2001: Gerry Deon Allen, 36, untried, coronary
thrombosis. Mr. Allen was committed at 1:22 a.m. Aug. 3. He died at an
unspecified time Aug. 5 at the jail.
DEC. 13, 2000: Roger Allen Tyson, 49, untried, coronary
disease-heart attack. Mr. Tyson was committed to the jail at 12:54 a.m.
Nov. 3. He died at 8:47 p.m. Dec. 13 at an unspecified location.
APRIL 15, 1999: James Michael Corbett, 19, untried, suicide
(sheet/hanging). Mr. Corbett was committed to the jail at 10:09 a.m. April
4. He was pronounced dead at 11:45 p.m. April 15 at the jail.
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these people and let them know what you think.
District
Attorney's Office
County
Attorney's Office
Commissioners
Chairman
Ted Davis
Bobby
Greer
Julia
Boseman
Bill
Caster
Nancy
Pritchett
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