I wont say a thing
Over 20 years ago while I was still in JR College, I used my Veteran status to land an entry level position at the desk of the County of Los Angeles USC emergency Room.
This is the General Hospital of inner city Los Angeles and its working class suburbs.
Anybody who has insurance or a choice goes to Cedars Sinai or UCLA Medical Center in Torrance.
On a slow night only 5 or 6 dead young people would be delivered to the morgue for final disposition.
Sometimes they were already ID’d and I would have to log them in as they arrived.
Most all were gun shot or stab victims.
Many were mutilated and tattooed from head to foot.
On Friday and Saturday it was more like 10 or 12.
I remember one Saturday there were 16 people that had died violently or been killed the night before.
From a procedural perspective it was just another night.
A regular police officer would come every morning. Sometimes two.
Two Police officers for however many working class people had died or had been killed.
They would say thing like “oh yeah, Paco’s dead, and he was stabbed”
Or they would order finger prints and say things like “yeah these over here were all shot”
My point is there was not a whole lot of energy going towards justice being served.
Nor did any of all this activity make the news.
Nor did anyone ever hear about any of these people ever again. Any of them.
Most all had been murdered and no real investigation ever took place. I mean none at ALL.
The next day the Lakers still played, and the Surfers still surfed.
That’s right, a half dozen people would be shot or stabbed to death in Los Angeles every single night, and it didn’t even make the news.
Every few months the gurneys produced a blonde haired, blue eyed, white victim without the tell tale gang tattoos.
On those days an extra Police officer would show up at 5 AM.
One for the caucasian victim and one for all the others.
Today I live on a beatifull Avocado ranch in San Diego County, drive a Mercedes and occasionally metal detect the "Mexican badlands" where every single violent episode appears on the first few pages of all the Tijuana and San Diego Newspapers.
state of affairs to be pushed to this point and how this has all turned out for you. To make the call is one of the bravest things that you could of done as it's just simply bad in what has happened. It's sort of amazing how I can feel this numb in reading your post, I don't know anything about your lives and what has happened except for the thread sharing that you have given the membership. I'm sorry if this is too strong but the man is needing help, to lay a hand on a partner no matter what the reason is just wrong, he has fallen done the ladder of respect.
