Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Three safety-related incidents in the city that I used to live in...

...like in the span of 3 weeks:

1) Someone shot (and I think killed) right at the corner of the block where my one assisted living client with (disabilities) used to live.

2) A mid-evening spray-shooting like a block from the resthome where I used to work.

3) A rush-hour shooting on public transportation right by where my one (half Sudanese) (half British) friend lives (the sister of the brother-sister pair).

. . .

(This density of incidents is really astounding... Years ago a drunk homeless guy tried to mug me on the subway, and I can think of three targeted gang-shootings near 2 different apartments and 1 workplace, but that was all very rare and mostly all gang-focused within known boundaries and at known 'trouble places,' whereas now it seems like it's always something happening pretty randomly and you'd be tempting fate just to live your everyday life there and chance being around stuff like that so much... I really can't imagine my having continued to live in the city and my having kept coming across stuff like that so much, not to mention having to face the continued public transportation problems. Having to be "on alert" all the time really puts a person on edge.)

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