We Are the Cops by Michael Matthews

Author:Michael Matthews [Michael Matthews]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781909269279
Publisher: Silvertail Books
Published: 2015-06-11T16:00:00+00:00

We’ll have up to a dozen homicides sometimes, on a bad weekend. A dozen homicides! It’s just crazy. In the summer, as soon as it starts getting warm, people just flip out and start shooting each other. Wintertime, it starts to slow down a little bit but summertime it’s crazy.

And here’s the thing, it would be worse – probably twice as bad – if the medicine wasn’t as good as it is today. Our hospitals are busy, they’re level one trauma. They’re the best at fixing guys with gunshots. I actually know the doctor who’s head of ER Trauma. The guy’s amazing and he’s like, ‘If you bring me someone with a heartbeat, nine times out of ten I can keep them alive, whether he’s been shot ten times or once.’

They’re that good because they’ve had so much practice. They’ll have nights when they get five or ten gunshot victims. And now, if you go into a hospital, they’ll save you. We’ll have guys on the street who are gangbangers and they’ve been shot two or three different times, on two or three different occasions. Multiple times. They’ll show you their scars and say, ‘Yeah, I got shot here, I got shot here, I got shot here and I got shot here.’

So if they don’t hit a vital organ or artery and they get you to the hospital, they patch you back up and throw you back on the street. So the amount of homicides is a decent indicator but the amount of shootings – they call them aggravated batteries here – the amount of shootings is a better gauge because it’ll actually tell you when some gangbanger tried to kill someone else and not just when they actually succeeded. The only difference between the two is the bullet going just half an inch over and hitting you in the heart or something.

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