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my first 911 call of 2022
2022-Feb-06, Sunday 11:49 amLast night, while watching tv, there were 5 gunshots very nearby. So nearby that I think they were at the former crack house next door to me. (The 2nd crack house next door to me, not the 1st one.) The new people have been in that house for a few months, and I've had no reason at all to think they would bring any trouble here, so this incident is disturbing.
My cat jumped out of my lap to hide at the first shot. It was so close that I didn't want to move around and draw attention to my shadow on the windows, so I turned off the television to eliminate the light inside. In daytime, I usually run upstairs to sit in the protective bathtub to call 911, but last night I sat still in my living room chair instead. The 911 service center received the ShotSpotter activation while we were talking on the phone. It was only 2 minutes, I think, before a patrol car came by and shined a bright light around the area. It was only hours earlier that I heard fully automatic gunfire. It was well outside my usual 2-block radius for calling 911 to report the trouble. And I'm blogging about it today only because there was more gunfire this morning, again outside my 2-block radius.
I called 911 more times in 2021 than in the previous years here in the warzone combined, I think. It was a worse than usual year for local violence. The economy is terrible (for most people who aren't billionaires), people are still dying of covid, and the government seems intent to continue giving platitudes. Remember the two students who opened fire at a Twin Cities school just a few days ago? I know, all the killing is hard to keep track of. That school's superintendent published a call for help last summer:
Stay safe out there.
My cat jumped out of my lap to hide at the first shot. It was so close that I didn't want to move around and draw attention to my shadow on the windows, so I turned off the television to eliminate the light inside. In daytime, I usually run upstairs to sit in the protective bathtub to call 911, but last night I sat still in my living room chair instead. The 911 service center received the ShotSpotter activation while we were talking on the phone. It was only 2 minutes, I think, before a patrol car came by and shined a bright light around the area. It was only hours earlier that I heard fully automatic gunfire. It was well outside my usual 2-block radius for calling 911 to report the trouble. And I'm blogging about it today only because there was more gunfire this morning, again outside my 2-block radius.
I called 911 more times in 2021 than in the previous years here in the warzone combined, I think. It was a worse than usual year for local violence. The economy is terrible (for most people who aren't billionaires), people are still dying of covid, and the government seems intent to continue giving platitudes. Remember the two students who opened fire at a Twin Cities school just a few days ago? I know, all the killing is hard to keep track of. That school's superintendent published a call for help last summer:
At the end of the 2020-2021 school year, she published an op-ed in the Star Tribune titled, “The kids are not OK,” in which she shared that over the first five months of 2021 she’d received eight notices about deaths affecting her student population.
“Whether by suicide, drug overdose or community violence, their deaths point back to one thing: Our young people are not OK, and their mental health is severely at risk,” she wrote... She called the district’s reality a “red alert,” saying the pandemic and race-related trauma were compounding the severe mental health conditions students in the district were already experiencing.
- https://www.mprnews.org/story/2022/02/04/richfield-school-district-pleaded-for-student-mental-health-help-months-before-shooting
“Whether by suicide, drug overdose or community violence, their deaths point back to one thing: Our young people are not OK, and their mental health is severely at risk,” she wrote... She called the district’s reality a “red alert,” saying the pandemic and race-related trauma were compounding the severe mental health conditions students in the district were already experiencing.
- https://www.mprnews.org/story/2022/02/04/richfield-school-district-pleaded-for-student-mental-health-help-months-before-shooting
Stay safe out there.