"They were canvassing the neighborhood," she recalls.
They did not know if he had been injured, and they were canvassing area hospitals.
The detectives spotted Mr. Johnson while they were canvassing the Lower East Side of Manhattan and Williamsburg, Brooklyn, areas where the police said Mr. Johnson had frequented.
But a few days later, I heard they were canvassing my neighborhood, in West Philadelphia, looking for information about me, including from people I've never met.
The fractious, squabbling groups they were canvassing had an array of motivations resentments, fear, self-interest, hang-ups, old grudges, not giving a hoot.
"If a police officer drove down the street for any reason, he called me in a panic that they were canvassing his neighborhood and somebody was going to fabricate a statement and say that he admitted to murder," Morrison said.
Labor's field operatives weren't sitting in call centres, they were canvassing from their own lounge rooms, in the targeted seats, on their own phones, inside their own neighbourhoods.
The party used material such as the results by booths from the last federal election combined with separate survey work, to get a sense of the people in the neighbourhoods they were canvassing.
Police were unable to provide a description of the driver; they were canvassing the area for footage from surveillance cameras. .
Referring to the challenges faced in casting, he said that while they were canvassing local people for auditions, they were warding off rumors that they were after the people's kidneys.
And on Monday, they were canvassing again, looking for any sign of the 5'2" college hopeful, who was last seen in a short-sleeved red Abercrombie & Fitch shirt and jeans.
