Shooting on Monday evening, 11/17/2014, around 8:15 PM, Franklin and EP

Wife was getting home around then- said a good bit of the botanic garden station was taped off, and cops all around our building. Sounds like it may have happened in the subway station?

Making the walk each day from President to Eastern Parkway and back still feels a bit like Russian Roulette (though obviously not as bad as it was, say, a decade ago), as an inordinate number of shootings seem to occur between those blocks (in spite of a fairly regular police presence).  After ten years of being lucky enough not to get caught up in the crossfire, after seeing old women in wheel chairs and 8 year old girls hit by stray bullets, as much as things continue to trend in the right direction, these kinds of shootings still occur with alarming frequency---not that any of this should be all that surprising considering we live in a country/city with more guns than people.  It'd just be nice to be able to go outside without having to worry whether that decision might cost you your life.

 

Prior to watching the scanner sites, I was only aware of shootings that resulted in deaths, because they were the only ones that made the newspapers.

Now, I am aware of far more of the "invisible shootings": Those in which a gun is fired but no one is hit, and those in which someone is hit but is expected to live.

In addition to not being covered by traditional media, these shootings are invisible because the police investigation of them is often done quickly.

 This.  For years I've scoured websites looking for news when I've either heard shots or seen police investigating a shooting.  The absence of any clear statistics on the frequency of shootings, or at least shots fired, is more than a little troubling.  In spite of how far the city has come, we apparently still aren't to the point where people firing bullets on city streets is considered particularly notable.

God damn kids!