Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dispatcher replied that no exceptions could be made. I would have to go where she told me to go, and expose myself to the very risk from which I needed the escort to protect me. I pleaded with her to no avail, and finally went home unescorted...
...home, I phoned the escort service again, because I wanted to continue my discussion with the dispatcher. I reminded her that I had just been talking with her from Harvard Square. When I asked for her name, she hung up on me. I then called the campus police and asked to speak to the person who supervised the escort service...
...officer on duty said that the supervisor was unavailable, because he was providing security at a private function. Eventually, the officer admitted it was possible to reach the supervisor by radio, so I left him a message concerning my problems with the escort service...
...also explained that the likely reason he found my problem with the escort service so unusual, was that it was very difficult to get a report through to him. I related how persistent I had been in trying to address the matter: I had called back the police, and had to argue with them for some time to get a message to the supervisor; and finally I was having this lengthy discussion with the supervisor, who refused to acknowledge that there was a policy issue involved...
...conclusion one can draw is that other people have had difficulties with the escort service, but haven't been perseverant enough to go through all the steps to bring the event to the supervisor's attention. That is, my experience may well not be an anomaly...