Like 1967 when we lived at 22nd & Green & Philly PD ran drugs. "I’m a Broad Street runner, so I know that Temple Hospital is mile marker 2 and City Hall is mile marker 6, and within four short miles all of this violence is going on. Where was that outrage?

 When we lived on Green Street. Our friend Dr. Lena Stella lived downstairs. She worked weekends at Misericordia Hospital. Weekends of near fatal knife wounds & near fatal gunshot wounds. 

The same two officers would park car 914 at the 22nd. St end of Green St. They walked down Green St. putting tickets on all the vehicles that would be illegally parked on Tuesdays and Thursdays street cleaning days. 

Our landlord refused to pay $100 per year to the Phillly PD superintendent & also the Philly plumbing inspector, Fire inspector & electric inspector. Running out to move the car to the other side of the street was a small price to pay to live in an apartment that was always up to code. 

Corruption was endemic in Philly government. The drug business brought high profits into political corruption. Political corruption in Philadelphia was laid on a foundation of drug money. 

“Since 1993, Amy Goldberg has been a trauma surgeon at Temple University Hospital, which has the distinction of treating more gunshot patients than any other hospital in the state. Last year, there were 747, up from 576 the year before.

Goldberg, a native of Broomall who went to the University of Pennsylvania and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, says she’s treated thousands here, in rare cases those who have been shot on more than one occasion. And though Goldberg and Scott Charles, Temple’s trauma outreach manager, over the last 15 years have started programs to advocate for and assist victims, educate schoolchildren about gun violence, and train community members on how to provide first aid to gunshot victims, they have watched as the city’s gun violence has escalated again this past year.

In the early hours of New Year’s Day, after two were killed and 12 injured in three separate shootings — one of them near Temple’s campus — Goldberg tweeted: “Last night was an abomination in our city. Our community is dying. Where is the outrage ... from everyone?”

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The Philadelphia Inquirer 

‘Where is the outrage ... from everyone?’ The story behind this Temple trauma surgeon’s tweet.

We sat down with Amy Goldberg to talk about that tweet, her work as both a surgeon and more recently the interim dean of Temple’s medical school and what she would like to see from Philadelphians.

Susan Snyder

Published Jan 21, 2022

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Police, Politics, Corruption: The Mixture Dangerous to Freedom and Justice Hardcover – May 15, 2000

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