Police expert weighs in on man’s concerns about slow 911 response in Milwaukee

Last month, TMJ4 News reported on Hamza Alkarady's experience calling 911 while visiting Milwaukee. It's an experience he described as traumatizing.

He said after alerting dispatchers of his location, Dash Camera video from his car showed him circling a Milwaukee intersection for nearly seven minutes while being chased by an unknown driver at gunpoint.

After waiting for the police, Hamza feared that the police were not on the way, so he decided to head to the freeway to try and escape the driver chasing him. That's when his 911 call with the City of Milwaukee was transferred to Milwaukee County.

TMJ4 News has obtained a portion of that 911 call. In the call, you hear Hamza update dispatchers on his location six times in less than 3 minutes. Hamza said he was chased from Downtown Milwaukee to West Bend before losing the other driver and was transferred from one jurisdiction to the next but never said police were responding to his 911 call.

TMJ4's Ryan Jenkins is part of TMJ4's new special reporting team, Lighthouse. To shine the light on Hamza's concerns, Jenkins took Hamza's story and that 911 call to former West Allis Police Chief Chuck Padgett. He's not connected to the case but offers his perspective.

"The best thing to do is what he did. Get on the phone, tell them, describe the person, describe the other car if you can get the plate number its always a good thing to do," said Padgett.

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