Hold the fort!

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Gunshots last night.

PT had company over for dinner, and while saying goodbye on the back porch, a little after midnight, there were two short bursts of gunfire.

Nearby.

Unusual in this West 7th Street block, even if we have had problems with drugs in the apartments across the street in the past.

Then I get up and find an email in my inbox this morning from readers over in the Muhlenberg Hospital neighborhood that they heard about a DOZEN shots fired in two bursts about 10:40 PM last night.

Operation CeaseFire is supposed to be coming to Plainfield soon.

It is a policing tactic in which there is supposed to be INTENSE response to EVERY GUN INCIDENT, INCLUDING REPORTS OF GUNSHOTS FIRED.

As it was explained to PT by a law enforcement professional, every incident is supposed to be treated with the intensity there would be in the case of a shooting with a victim.

How successful will it be? We won't know 'til we've been there.

But PT's sense is that people are ready. . .and waiting.

Puts him in mind of the old union song Hold the fort, for we are coming.

-- Dan Damon

PS -- If you're not familiar with this great song of the American people, you can listen to it here.

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