Raindogblue

Homicide on the High Street

 

There is no dignity dying

in the street, in the scattered

garbage, blood spilling

from a broken head,

with paramedics cracking

ribs to do CPR on a fleeing life. 

 

 

Consequences of Extreme Heat

 

Per Dispatch, due to extreme heat, on Monday there were 24 death calls city-wide. Today, there were 38. Normally, there are four.

I had one, but it was a heroin OD.

 

Homicides

 

And now the number for the year is 38.

There were 36 total in 2019.

 

 

An Odd Request

 

Kat's in the roll call room working on a report.

She says to me, "Can you do me a favor."

I don't trust the look on her face.

 

Sssuurre?

 

"Can you smell me?"

 

Ookay?

 

I just returned from a death call and wanted to know if I smell like a the body.

 

 

 

31

One of the two injured in last night’s shooting died today.

 

 

30

 

The pond had its 30th murder tonight with two more seriously wounded.....

 

 

Deterioration

 

It's an ill omen, on a welfare check, when you can smell human decay in the elevator shaft.

 

 

Traffic Fatality Update

Traffic Deaths are up to 26 for the year.

 

 

 

 

Counting

 

As 3/1/21, the city has had 18 Homicides, 49 people wounded in shootings from 181 shootings this year.

 

*Two more were shoot last night: one killed, the other wounded. 

 

 

Transient Deaths

 

In 2018, 93 transients died on the street.

In 2019, the number was 113. 

Per the County, 57 died from "Accident" (I believe this includes over-doses of opioids, meth, alcohol, etc,) 34 died of natural causes, 15 committed suicide, 6 were murdered, and one person had the cause of death was undetermined. 

The report points towards drug addiction as a cause of the increase stating, “The ecosystem we’ve developed in this country has led to 90 percent pure meth being available for about the price of a latte,”