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Old Posted Jan 20, 2016, 7:55 PM
LouisVanDerWright LouisVanDerWright is offline
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^^^ Most people on this forum are not likely to live or work in the areas that are dangerous in these cities. In Chicago I only know of one frequent forum member who lives in a relatively dangerous area on the South Side. Everyone else lives on the North Side or gentrifying areas. There are still incidents in these areas, but you are not likely to be involved.

For example, during the murder wave of 2012 there were multiple incidents where people were shooting at each other on my block on Chicago's relatively safe NW side. I know all the people on my street and it was a very interesting and real peak into the dynamics of gangs and crime. All the shootings were related to one kid whose parents lived down the block from me. He got out of jail after 18 months of being put away for drugs and other gangbanging related offenses and the shootings began almost immediately and all targeted or were perpetrated by him. He started trying to claim our street and area as Latin Kings territory, but traditionally everything on this side of Milwaukee Ave is Spanish Cobras. There's none living on my block, but some live down around the corner, so it's not even like he was that close to them, Milwaukee ave is just an invisible line and if you are in one gang or another you stay on your side or else.

As soon as he crossed the line, people starting coming IN to my neighborhood specifically to shoot at him. He would go around tagging things with the Cobra's sign and bring all his buddies over to bang on the corner by my house. My neighbors are all ex-gang members who grew out of it and moved out here from their old hood around United Center to specifically avoid these types of problems and would go up to them when they are hanging out on the corner and tell them to bugger off. One night the oldest brother in my neighbor's family goes out there after dark to chase them off and one of the little dumbasses friends is wasted and started shooting at my neighbor and hit him in the shoulder. He was fine, but is an illegal immigrant (has lived here for 38 of 39 years and barely has any accent) so he wouldn't talk to the cops and thus the little shit gets away with it. He knew exactly who did it, but the system makes it impossible to prosecute or get cooperation so the crime continues.

Eventually the neighbors banded together and got him caught by calling the cops on him every time we saw him up to shit. We even got the alderman to start the condemnation process on his parents house for code violations. He got out of jail again after two years and whatdayaknow? Start hearing gunshots again. Luckily this time he was out for his nightly shooting and pulled a gun out on Milwaukee Ave and starts shooting at a couple of Cobras. Well there happened to be an Uber driver with a concealed carry license sitting right there waiting for a customer. He saw it all happen and pulls out his gun and caps dummy who actually missed everyone he was aiming at. Now numnuts is in the hospital and going straight to jail when he gets out. Uber+concealed carry = backup cops.

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Originally Posted by maru2501 View Post
trauma care very definitely involved. Many advancements since Chicago routinely tagged 700-800 etc.

more doctors here trained in what amounts to battlefield medicine. also improvements once they open your chest up that someone more qualified than me could explain
I think I remember reading during the occupation of Iraq that many doctors/medics with the Army are sent to Chicago's (and probably other major American cities) hospitals for their residency to gain experience with this type of trauma. Chicago's South and West sides also see a lot of injuries from industrial accidents due to the industrial nature of these areas. Those types of injuries also provide valuable experience with burns, shrapnel, crush injuries, etc that are also common on the battlefield. It's also true that many medical advances in treatment of these wounds have occurred in these same hospitals including things like inflatable tourniquets and blood coagulant laced bandages.

Last edited by LouisVanDerWright; Jan 20, 2016 at 8:15 PM.
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