Stacey Hightower's Fatal 911 Delay

In 2013, Detroit faced severe 911 problems, with violent-crime emergencies suffering dispatch delays of more than an hour. In one case, neighbors repeatedly called 911 while 32-year-old Stacey Hightower was being attacked inside her Detroit apartment, but a dispatcher waited 90 minutes to send police. Officers found Hightower dead from multiple stab wounds, and prosecutors charged a man named Jason Peck with first-degree murder. Her mother, a woman named Tracey Hightower, consulted an attorney about suing Detroit but found that the city was bankrupt.

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