i had written a clever intro for this blog post with calculations of how often george zimmerman called 911 in the weeks before killing trayvon martin. but then i found out that the 46 calls he made to 911 were over a period of 8 years, not 2 months. womp, womp. still, 46 is a lot of emergencies.
most of zimmerman’s observations, alerts and issues didn’t warrant a call to 911. they were more appropriate for what we here in new york would report to 311 (the things 311 handles). the daily beast compiled a summary of zimmerman’s numerous calls and you can see the complete history of calls here from the city of sanford. i must say, this small town has released way more information that i would have expected.
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