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Blood in the Streets
Oct 16, 2007 | 6:38 AM
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A lot of people were outraged to hear there was a standing puddle of blood and EMT supplies laying out in the street the day after a shooting on 24th and Chambers. Unfortunately... it happens all the time.

When we're on location and need to find the vicinity of where a homicide happened, you can typically find it by following the trail of surgical gloves and blood.

The fact that it happens all the time doesn't mean it's acceptible. I'll dig around and try to figure out just whose job it is to clean it up and if there are regulations on when and how it should be done.

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Earwig read my blog
Oct 16, 2007 | 7:53 AM

They should just leave the BODIES there to decompose. It would be more like their homelands in Africa where the bodies are left to rot all the time. Maybe then they would be motivated to change the apperance, and notion their "culture" represents to the civilized people of the community. They have no problem with the murders, just the evidence of the murders? These people need to stop acting like sub-humans, and get their act together.
Blessed_Angel read my blog view my photos
Oct 16, 2007 | 1:48 PM

Thank you for looking into this Renee. What was perceived as outrage was due to potential harm being brought to a child. The responses probably barely scratched the surface of the mothers/females who responded the way they did, myself included.

It's just that a blood spill on a food production line will bring it to an immediate halt in order to be sanitized, product will go on hold, contaminated items will immediately get auto-claved, numerous incident reports will be generated, and it will be months until all is said and done which will include video taping of the disposal of that held product. Those who have been trained know enough to treat all blood as if it contains a disease. With going into the medical field, I see the statistical side of it, which brings me to this...Katrina did a blog on the stats of AIDS cases in Wisconsin not too long ago...82.7% of AIDS cases are reportedly in Milwaukee. (And that's just ONE of many known pathogens.)
aaro-nf read my blog view my photos
Oct 16, 2007 | 5:24 PM

renee_benot: great posting of this blog. blood in the streets tear families apart. homicide is a senseless act.
Basher51 read my blog view my photos
Oct 17, 2007 | 7:13 AM

Renee, when I worked for the Waukesha Fire Department, the job typically fell to us. We had a department rule that any bio-hazard (bloody dressings, needles, used trach tubes, etc.) had to be removed from the scene. We had to use a spray formula to neutralize spilled blood and then we flushed it or, if on a rug, soaked it up with a dressing.
desertwindrider read my blog view my photos
Oct 18, 2007 | 1:45 AM

I've said it before: BIO HAZARD. Are budgets so tight that we cannot clean up a crime scene for the public safety?
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Renee_Banot

I am a general assignment reporter-- which means I cover anything from "State Fair Foods on a Stick" to "A Visit from the President." Every assignment is different. Every day is a clean slate. I thank God for the opportunity to do what I love in my beloved hometown. Please feel free to browse my blog. Any comments, questions or story suggestions... LET 'ER RIP!

Member Since: 8/24/2006