Isolated, Targeted or Random?
We still like many medical persons:
A Rush University Medical Center employee was critically wounded in a shooting near the hospital Monday morning.
The employee, 23, was parked outside in the 600 block of South Paulina Street about 5:25 a.m. when a dark-colored car pulled up and someone inside opened fire, hitting her multiple times, Chicago police said.
The employee, who was in the driver’s seat of a black Jeep SUV, was transported to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital in critical condition, police said.
We always liked to think that certain areas and people were "off limits" to certain sorts of misbehavior. Doctors, nurses, firefighters, teachers, nuns and clergy, even a lot of social workers - they're stuck where they are because they're helping others. Unfortunately, the last few years of our careers disabused us of much of that sentiment, so we were forced to decide on a case-by-case basis who was deserving of sympathy or concern.
That list got awfully small awfully quickly.
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
26 Comments:
Domestic
Shitheads know no boundaries. War needs to be declared against the criminal savages. But as long as we have the "its our turn" people in charge, the violence will continue. With those who's turn it is being the usual victims and perpetrators.
Someone please define, “Isolated “?
Shot out side hospital and taken to a hospital further away. Why bother going to RUSH if they are going to send you to STROGER.
Yes those hospitals draw a lot of unsavory people. The medical staffs consist of highly trained people that deserve to be protected. I rarely see the CPD patrolling the areas, not that it's the beat cops fault. The City of Chicago needs to allocate more resources to the area.
I’m glad shotspotter is still gone. It was just a waste of time for tax payers because the spots they had it nobody was paying for it. Now they can use that money for cps and immigrants.
No employee discount at Rush?
No doubt its domestic..Id bet money on that one!! Baby Momma or a cheating mamma.
Stroger is probably the best gunshot repair center in Chicago, the US ARMY trains Docs and medics there, Navy too.
Sad but true.
Stroger is a trauma center. Rush isn't.
Rush isn't a level 1 trauma center.
100% true
Wonder if my suggestion for naming a city salt truck
“ICE-O-LATED” won?
I was serving a three month Chaplaincy at Rush during the summer of 1977. Our offices were across the street from the hospital and we were "strongly advised" that after dark it was "best practice" to take the underground tunnel rather than risk going outside. Yes, that was 49 years ago . . .
Where was the small runt Tac Lt from 012 when this happened? He’s never at work
Stroger has one of the best trauma units in USA, thanks to the couple thousand gunshot victims the Community provides them to practice upon annually.
Even the US Navy sends their medical corpsmen over to Stroger for battlefield first aid training… in the ER.
Private hospitals need to allocated more resources to their own security. It doesn’t fall on the government to run security for them. We live in a city of approximately 2.5 million people, with a police department understaffed by at least several thousand. We don’t have the resources to allocate to run security for Rush. We don’t even have the resources to man beat cars in the districts. There’s lots of people, highly trained or not, that deserve to be protected. And we don’t have the resources, or support to do it. So, no, the city does not need to allocate more resources to rush, rush can afford it on their own.
"We always liked to think that certain areas and people were "off limits" to certain sorts of misbehavior." -SCC
Not to mention the harassment, name-calling, racial intimidation, and aggressive panhandling of customers shopping INSIDE stores that has come in with the tremendous wave of retail theft. The street has simply moved indoors.
"I don't bother them and they don't bother me." Wishful thinking - that social contract was cancelled a long time ago.
randomly targeted whilst in isolation?
At 5am? I'm sure he was at home, as was every other Tac Lt. Maybe ask why the WOL wasn't out on the street, it's his watch, not the Tact Lt.
It's literally a block and half west of there and is Level 1. Are you really the Police?
That's dumb!
Don’t pick on him, he’s one of the good bosses on this job. And don’t be a snitch.
I worked security from 1974 to 1979 at Rush. Yes, there were tunnels underneath the hospital for employees to use.
Also, employees could request a ride from security to get to their cars.
Nighttime did get somewhat scary there.
I doubt this was isolated. More like targeted.
This one appears to have been a targeted attack, and I'm
sure that a thorough investigation will reveal it shortly.
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