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CHICAGO COP GOES "DIRTY HARRY" ON UNARMED CIVILIAN

By John Birch, President, Concealed Carry, Inc., PO BOX 4597, Oak Brook,
IL 60523, Tel: 630 660-3935 Fax: 815 327-1152 Email:
john@concealcarry.org

Imagine you are parked in a car, in Chicago of course. While parked you
are side swiped and suffer minor damage to your vehicle. You give chase,
then confront the "hit and run" drive and shoot him in the thigh and
then "can't remember pulling the trigger."

I suggest the press would report this as another case of ROAD RAGE
fueled by the presence of a gun in the hands of a civilian who should
never have had the gun in the first place! Your picture and name
splattered all over the front page of the Tribune. Oh the OUTRAGE! The
SHAME! More gun control needed! Blah, blah, blah.

But the story is reported differently if you are a Chicago Cop. If you
are a Chicago cop your identity is shielded while the victim, Michael J.
Sajna, is afforded no privacy.

In fact the police maintain the unidentified officer was following
correct procedure in pulling the gun!

I have not asked this question in a while so I while ask it again.

Is there one law for badges in Chicago and another law for civilians?
Hey, just asking.

Addendum to the above. Good friend Officer Marty, one of Oak Brook's
finest just stopped by. I asked him what would happen to me if I did the
above. And he said, "Well John let's just say we wouldn't be having a
beer at J. Alexander's." When I told him the rest of the story, and how
the Chicago Cop got off he only said; "I gotta read the Tribune. That
officer must have clout!"

BUILD YOUR OWN NO SERIAL NUMBER AR-15 HOMELAND DEFENSE GUN UPDATE:

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If you check out this sight the words "some assembly required" will take
on a new meaning! Frankly this project is beyond me and I am sure it is
beyond the scope of every gang banger in Chicago. But for a citizen
familiar with machine tools, this should be a snap. Remember you may
ONLY make one of these for your PERSONAL use. You may not make HDW's for
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In any case we hope Rod Blagojevich is pleased we are able to educate in
the good citizens of Illinois in how to legally make an untraceable
weapon for the defense of our homeland.

Those needing an 80% Lower to complete should scroll down for an offer
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RODERICK PRITCHETT DEFENSE FUND:

The Northern Trust has agreed to handle our legal defense account. As
you know Roderick is NOT the only one who has come down the pike in need
of help. Rather than make multiple funds we are creating a fund called
"Concealed Carry, Inc. Legal Defense Fund." Donations are NOT tax
deductible. I have no staff so your receipt will be your cancelled check
deposited to Northern Trust Bank. If you want a formal receipt enclose a
STAMPED SELF-ADDRESSED ENVELOPE and I will print a receipt out. I need
to reduce the workload because I am tired of being the a full time, no
salary, employee.

For those of you who have made pledges send them to:

Concealed Carry, Inc. Legal Defense Fund
PO BOX 4597
OAK BROOK IL 60523-2708


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Police probe shooting by cop
Off-duty officer confronted man after hit-and-run
By Amy E. Nevala
Tribune staff reporter
Published December 8, 2002
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0212080089dec08,0,5748416.story?coll=chi%2Dnewslocal%2Dhed 

Police are investigating the shooting of a Chicago man by an off-duty
Chicago police officer who a police official said was "apparently
distraught and couldn't recall pulling the trigger."

Michael J. Sajna, 28, of the 3500 block of South Rhodes Avenue was shot
in an alley on the 8600 block of South Blackstone Avenue early Thursday
during a confrontation with the officer after they were involved in a
minor hit-and-run crash several blocks away, said police spokesman
Patrick Camden.

The 32-year-old officer was parked in her own car with another woman in
the 9000 block of South Greenwood Avenue at 12:38 a.m. Thursday when
Sajna sideswiped her vehicle, Camden said. Later investigation showed
that neither vehicle was significantly damaged, he said.

The officer started her car and followed Sajna's vehicle into the alley,
Camden said. Sajna parked, got out and began walking toward the
officer's car, he said. The officer left her vehicle, announced she was
a police officer and told the man to put his hands in the air, he said.

"The officer initially stated she observed a shiny object in the
subject's hand. He continued to advance toward her, despite her warnings
to stop," Camden said. He said the officer was "apparently distraught
and couldn't recall pulling the trigger."

Sajna, who was shot in his upper left thigh, was treated at Christ
Medical Center in Oak Lawn and released Thursday, Camden and a hospital
spokeswoman said. Sajna was cited for driving with a suspended license,
leaving the scene of an accident and driving without insurance.

He was not carrying a weapon, Camden said.

A review released Friday stated the officer was in compliance with
department policy when she drew her gun to confront the man during a
hit-and-run accident, Camden said. Police are investigating whether she
failed to maintain safe firearms practices, he said.

The officer works in the School Patrol Unit and was not in uniform, he
said.

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An arms race in the streets
Published December 8, 2002
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0212080442dec08,0,1021865.story?coll=chi%2Dnewsopinion%2Dhed 

Since the mid-1990s, Chicago has watched with relief as the city's
murder numbers generally have declined. But as city officials talk about
a drop in homicides for 2002 (after a rise, to 665, in 2001), they
should acknowledge that one factor which has nothing to do with law
enforcement pushes down the murder toll here by roughly 200 lives every
year. Without that underappreciated and expensive push, Chicago's murder
toll this year likely would have erupted to between 800 and 900 lives
lost.

Since the 1980s, there has been an arms race between killers and medical
trauma specialists.

Semi-automatic firearms have become weapons of choice for shooters, and
their higher-velocity bullets cause more mutilation to victims' bodies
than do slugs from older-style firearms.

Yet during the same years, vast improvements in trauma treatment
here--the medical staffs, the surgical techniques, the facilities--have
been the crucial reason why thousands of victims of severe gun, knife
and other attacks didn't become murder statistics. Remarkably, the
beneficiaries include an estimated 3,000 assault victims who would have
died had they been treated in Chicago's regular hospital emergency
rooms, rather than in the few specialized trauma centers that serve the
city.

That's a provocative point, and one not intended to slight the abilities
or egos of those who provide emergency care in hospitals citywide. But
the quality of Chicago's trauma system today easily eclipses that of
earlier decades. Back then, wounded patients often arrived at hospitals
that lacked the uniquely skilled personnel or the experience with lethal
injuries that trauma centers enjoy.

But with the miracles come high expenses. It is possible to calculate,
in crude terms, the cost of saving one otherwise lost life in a
Chicago-area trauma center. Some of those costs are reimbursed by
medical insurers or subsidized by government payments. Still, Chicago's
trauma system survives on the good will of the eight medical centers now
in the network.

Even in this tight financial era for hospitals, none of the eight is
threatening to quit. Making sure none ever does should be a priority for
city, county and state officials who tend to take for granted a system
that saves lives.

Many people suffer serious assaults. Homicide victims are the unlucky
subset who wind up dead. Top-notch trauma care is the key intervening
variable: In May, a study by University of Massachusetts and Harvard
researchers estimated that without trauma advances, the U.S. murder toll
would be three to almost five times the 15,980 people killed last year.

To understand how trauma centers suppress the body count, how they save
lives that emergency rooms cannot and the cost of doing so, it's
necessary to understand why some people survive murder attempts--and why
others do not.

- - -

Suppose you've been shot in the chest, or what some trauma workers call
"the box"--the vital area bounded by your clavicles, your nipples and
the bottom of your rib cage. The Chicago paramedics who first respond
have more training, treatment options and sophisticated equipment than
their predecessors did. But arguably their highest task is to decide
whether you're in the relatively small share of injury victims who need
a trauma center--even if they have to drive you past regular emergency
rooms to reach it.

Chicago's modern trauma system dates to 1986. The idea is to transport
dangerously injured patients--unlike those with heart attacks, broken
legs or other ailments that regular emergency rooms ably treat--to
facilities with special capabilities as fast as possible. Initially, 18
hospitals sought the top trauma center designation, partly for the
prestige. Eleven were in the system at the get-go--although unexpectedly
high costs soon whittled that number to eight.

You, as the victim of a serious gunshot wound, may well be hauled to
Stroger Hospital (formerly Cook County Hospital, model for the fictional
County General of "ER" fame), which gets 40 percent of Chicago's trauma
patients. The hospital's emergency rooms treat 147,000 patients a year;
its highly selective trauma unit treats 5,000.

It is probably not your actual wound--the hole in, say, your aorta--that
imminently threatens your survival. The urgent peril is loss of blood,
or hemorrhagic shock. You can spare one-third of the 11 pints in your
system. But as your blood drains away, with it goes its all-important
ability to carry oxygen through your body. Your heart is accustomed to
having your blood supply circulate through it every 90 seconds--and your
body needs the oxygen that blood carries. If your heart lacks sufficient
blood to deliver oxygen, it stops. Trauma centers succeed not just by
fixing your wound, but by marshaling the specialized talents and
techniques needed to save or restore your blood flow. (Yes, we're
cutting corners here, but not as many as the people who write "ER.")

Shooters who in the 1980s embraced 9 mm and other semi-automatic
firearms made it tougher to keep patients like you from bleeding to
death. Dr. John Barrett, who has headed the county hospital's trauma
service since 1982, says that back when shooters typically used
single-shot revolvers, 5 percent of gunshot patients had been struck by
more than one bullet. Today it's 25 percent.

Worse, says Barrett, the higher muzzle velocities of the newer guns
speed your blood loss. Each shot delivers more kinetic energy (half the
mass of a bullet times its velocity squared), and thus more "wounding
capacity" as that wider blast effect rips through your tissue. The more
holes from which you leak blood and the wider they are, the more time it
takes to find and close them. Time, unfortunately, is not your long
suit.

Still, if you arrive alive at Barrett's door, there is a 98 percent
likelihood that you also will depart alive. Many of the people who are
saved there would have been just as saved had they been taken to a
regular emergency room. But mathematical studies suggest that Chicago's
dividend from sending its worst injury cases to trauma centers
approaches 400 additional lives every year. Barrett, who also heads the
citywide trauma system, calls that dividend "a life a day."

Half of each year's 400 additional survivors, he estimates, have been
victims of assaults (with the rest injured in auto or other accidents).
If Barrett is as good at estimating as his team is at saving lives, then
Chicago has, since 1986, received a bonus of some 3,000 near-murder
victims who've been snatched back from death.

- - -

Chicago's system isn't perfect. The average transport to a trauma center
takes 11 minutes. But because those city and suburban medical centers
aren't evenly distributed, more time can elapse. Example: It's a long
haul from the city's Southeast Side to Christ Hospital in suburban Oak
Lawn. Still, high survival rates indicate that travel times aren't a big
problem.

What most strains the system is the cost of maintaining it. In 1991,
Barrett says, the hospitals calculated that trauma care cost them a
total of about $12 million a year--the difference between charges and
reimbursements. That didn't include infrastructure costs: trauma
surgeons always on duty, operating rooms, blood banks and so on.

There is no newer calculation systemwide. But to get some sense of
expenses and benefits, consider: If rising costs have swollen the losses
to, say, $20 million, that works out to $50,000 for each of those 400
additional lives saved every year. The true cost could be lower: A
severely injured patient not taken to a trauma center still would rack
up high costs at an emergency room. By one measure the investment
delivers more subsequent years of life than does money spent treating
many serious diseases. That's because trauma victims tend to be young,
with many potentially productive decades yet to live.

Chicago--its public officials, its health community, its
citizens--shouldn't wait for a funding crisis or a threat of a pullout.
City Hall might start by asking whether new sources of money--federal,
state or otherwise--can be found to help support the system. Focusing on
the gains Chicago receives from its Level I trauma network would be
partial payback to the eight medical centers: Children's Memorial,
Christ, Illinois Masonic, Lutheran General, Mt. Sinai, Northwestern,
Stroger and the University of Chicago.

The best way to lower the costs, of course, would be to lower Chicago's
level of lethal violence. Trauma specialists have held their own in
their arms race against shooters: Modern medical techniques, many
borrowed from battlefield hospitals, plainly work wonders. But doctors
are likelier to reach limits on treatments before assailants run out of
inventive new weapons.

Barrett, who will take early retirement this month at 57, says the
solution is not bigger and better trauma centers, or faster and more
skilled surgeons. He correctly believes that his work should be less
necessary. His job is to treat the symptoms of violence, and especially
gun violence--a bizarre way, when you think about it, for a skilled
surgeon to have to spend a career.

That violence is a learned behavior. Teaching people to control their
aggressions, to solve problems amicably, is the ultimate goal. That
won't be accomplished in Barrett's lifetime. Until it is, he says, "We
need to attack one vector of violence--the guns."

JO