From the notes my Torts book: the epitome of police fail: finding a naked, beaten boy roaming the streets and giving him back to Jeffrey Dahmer.
“I’m on 25th and State, and there is this young man. He’s buck naked. He has been beaten up…He is really hurt….He needs some help.”
With these words, a caller asked a Milwaukee Emergency 911 operator to send help to a person in need of assistance. When the call was made, on May 27, 1990, the name Jeffrey Dahmer was largely unknown. Today, everyone knows the story of the 31-year-old chocolate factory worker, a killing machine who committed the most appalling string of homicides in this city’s history.
Estate of Sinthasomphone v. City of Milwaukee, 785 F. Supp. 1343 (E.D. Wis. 1992)
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