The frightening tale of the tape: 2 scary videos

It's been quite the week for video.

First Upper Darby police released video of a man boarding a SEPTA bus, apparently shooting up heroin and then collapsing into the aisle as stunned riders looked on.

He is revived by an Upper Darby officer delivering a dose of the overdose-reversing drug Narcan.

On our editorial page today, we back up Upper Darby Superintendent Mike Chitwood in his call that simply reviving people is not enough, there has to be more in the way of rehab and treatment for people looking to beat their addiction.

Then yesterday the county District Attorney's office released dramatic video of a drive-by shooting in Chester.

A car is seen sitting on the side of a Chester street. A van rolls up beside the car, the sliding side door swings open and a hand with a gun in it emerges. The surveillance camera clearly shows the person opening fire on the car.

One person inside the car was killed.

It looks like something from a movie, but for the people of Chester, this is all too real.

Just the night before, two young friends leaving a Chinese restaurant were met with a hail of gunfire. A 15-year-old was hit three times.

It's easy to look at the video and mistake it for some kind of staged incident or movie scene.

It's not make-believe, or the movies.

It's real. It's happening in Chester.

And it should scare the hell out of everyone.

Comments

JDR said…
So the first one, heroine OD, is best handled by a long jail sentence, with supplemental horse provided discretely by corrupt underpaid guards and in exchange for various if unsavory quid-quo-pro - and zero efforts towards anything resembling rehab - all at public expense, only for the doper to eventually be released so the pattern can recycle in an plan to keep high recidity rates towards data supporting privatization of incarceration.

Just kidding.