12.30.2008

More Murder, More Death

The memorial below is down the street from me by a corner store. It has a picture of a young woman. I do not know how she died. I would guess violence, because the street is two small to have a massive car accident,  but it could be from an accident. I can not find any information in any paper about her. For the last 4 years in a row, there has been a young person killed in this neighborhood. In 2006, there was a man shot and killed in the alley where I park my car. At end of that same year, there was a man killed at the post office across the street. In 2oo8, earlier in the year there was a man killed in the alley across the street (I wrote about him here), and now there is this young woman. When I say in my neighborhood, I am talking about the blocks right by my spot, not even the next major intersection. If this is happening at every major intersection (which we don't know because The Homicide Report was shut down) then we have the situation we are in right now. More people have been murdered in Los Angeles in the last 8 years then have died in the Israeli-Palestine Conflict. That is crazy. 

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