Lots were thinking larger vehicle but probably discounted a bus due to the thought that it would have passengers. However, the buses really don't start rolling that early and it is a bit inconvenient for students during finals week that they don't. If you have a 7:30 final and want to get there early for some reason, they don't give you much time to do that.
Arrest reported in ISU hit and run death
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Lots were thinking larger vehicle but probably discounted a bus due to the thought that it would have passengers. However, the buses really don't start rolling that early and it is a bit inconvenient for students during finals week that they don't. If you have a 7:30 final and want to get there early for some reason, they don't give you much time to do that.
Yeah I went back and read the original thread from a month ago and no one mentioned CyRide at all. But of course now everyone says that CyRide was a main suspect
with half of the population of Ames (and certainly the more relevant half) gone for several of those weeks.
You would think the first thing the lead investigator would do is check every business within two blocks to see if they had any security video from that time frame. Shouldn't someone have said Cy Ride buses have video, maybe we should look at the video from every bus that was within a mile of here and watch the video from around 7:04 to see if we get any clues? You think this would have been done by noon the day it happened.
right, even if they didn't think it was a bus that hit her, they are aware that there are cameras on them so wouldn't they want to see if one of those cameras caught the accident or the surrounding area immediately after?
That's assuming the police are aware that the buses have cameras though.
And they got something from/about Cyride 2 weeks ago. Which given the holidays in the middle, is fairly good response time.
It's not like on TV where they solve the case in 45 minutes :twitcy:
Today, all I want to do is focus on the fact that they have made an arrest. Now is not the time to criticize them for not doing it sooner, particularly when it seems that no one on this over-analytical website even suggested it. No one.
Let's keep in mind that the investigation was taking place during a school break and holidays when staffing is probably low.
Seems like they did some good police work to make this arrest.
I don't want to disagree with this point at all as people always are awfully hard on the police force with these types of things. However police work did not do it here. CyRide called them, and laid it all out for them. They then knew the driver, just had to look at CyRide's report and check his phone text.
What ever route gets it resolved though is the best one.
The weird thing is they never actually asked the cyride people, the cyride people contacted them. Also not sure if it's common procedure for them to go over the tapes two weeks prior or why they wouldn't look the following day.
The work they did after getting the video seems to be excellent police work.
If he stopped to check the front next stop, he knew something. He may have been looking to see if the bus had any damage before the next shift. Sounds bad for him since I also notice when I hit squirrels and birds.
That is correct. When you are heading west bound on Lincoln, you turn left on Ash Ave. This is the only route that turns into Greek land.
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Best possible light is he knew he hit something but not sure what and didn't think it was a person and then looked at next stop to see. Then panicked when the news broke. In which case he should have come forward. Either way had he owned up to it, it would be a traffic ticket. Now it is a felony.
How long it takes to make an arrest is not an issue at all. I don't know how good the police are at their jobs, but in most police work, it's more important to be diligent and correct, than fast and inaccurate.
The only instance where time is an issue, is if you're dealing with a serial criminal.
The only instance where time is an issue, is if you're dealing with a serial criminal.
If you read the Daily article, it says that Police asked Cy-Ride to pull video from the buses in the area when they asked businesses in the area to do the same thing. While Cy-Ride was doing such, they noticed the damning video.
http://www.iowastatedaily.com/news/...cle_10dc0e96-bf90-11e5-bbdb-938ef941871f.html
http://www.iowastatedaily.com/news/...cle_10dc0e96-bf90-11e5-bbdb-938ef941871f.html
Something just seems odd. You would think someone at Cy Ride would have said, you know, we have video cameras on all of our buses, maybe we should look at the video of the bus that was making a left turn at this intersection at about the time the accident happened to see if we see anything that could help the police. Oh well, the holidays are coming up, maybe I will get to it the first week of January.
Meanwhile the police are interviewing every body shop in central Iowa for weeks hoping to find the damaged vehicle. If the bus video is the key piece of evidence, you would think it would have been discovered before January in spite of the holidays. I don't see why the students being out of town for two weeks has any impact.
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This is a fluid case, that has many variables. Hopefully the police have all their facts straight, and have built a solid case before the arrest.
If they acted too quickly and were sloppy, then a good defense lawyer is able to use bad police work in his case, rather than the facts.
If they acted too quickly and were sloppy, then a good defense lawyer is able to use bad police work in his case, rather than the facts.
