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The hottest tea, the spiciest gossip, the fiercest commentary and no fucking censorship. We are the Los Santos VIXEN. Hope you've been doing your kegels, babe. Letter from the editor: Sis, stop reading the story and BE the story. Submit your gossip to our handy and under-fucking-utilized gossip submission form. Chop chop. Also Like, Subscribe, Share, is this your first time online? Click HERE ! LSVIXEN XOXO ❤️ Survey Says: Minors are Literally Dying in the Streets According to LEOs & Medical Responders. Is a Solution in Sight? (Photocred: Jenna Song) Duuuuuude, what the fuuuuuck? I know. Super-duper serious article time. Bear with me, I think it's worth talking about. Let's set the scene. Flash. You're at a Car Show at 2:00 AM having fun. A thirteen year old boy tries all the doors on your car to no avail as a girl from the group of children tries and fails at distracting you by challenging you to a footrace (Girl, I'm literally in heels. No.) A cop car drives by and scatters them. You leave and get a call from a friend who stayed behind. It turns out a massive brawl broke out a mere two minutes after you left. Flash. You're buying smokes at the 24/7 at midnight. The sixteen year old boy in line in front of you is yelling at the 19 year old cashier to give him cigarettes. She doesn't want to lose her job, but she doesn't want to lose her life. You decide to stay until the boy leaves and then escort the cashier to her car only to see the boy getting attacked by street thugs. You and the girl make it out safely, if a bit shaken and call the police to help the boy. Flash. You're covering a crime scene. An 11 year old boy in ratty clothes is roaming the roadway trying to throw himself into oncoming traffic. Is he suicidal? Is he trying to get a warm bed and meal at Pillbox Hill Medical Center? Who knows. The police intervene and he leaves your sight but not your mind. These stories are not uncommon. They are just a slice of the experiences I've had in this city and you've probably had your own. The final incident I mentioned stuck with me though and triggered something deep down in my icy cold heart. I needed to know how bad the problem is and if there are any real solutions our government can actually do to stop it if there is an issue. So I sent a six question survey to the Los Santos Police Department, the Los Santos Sheriff's Department, Pillbox Hill Medical Center, and the Los Santos Fire Department to see how deep the rabbit hole goes and what they're take is on a potential solution to the problem. Who did the LS Vixen ask and what is their level of experience? So I first asked a question to figure out who I was talking to. Mostly Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) responded from the Sheriff's and Police Department. We did get a solid 26 percent of the survey responding from the Medical Responders perspective which is really important when we talk about the gruesome results of interactions with minors by emergency responders. The second question could have killed the article before it was made. If the responders had rare interactions ("Yes, once or twice" or "No, never") when asked if they've ever witnessed or responded to incidents involving a minor being harmed, then we wouldn't have much of a problem to explore. Eighty one percent of those asked have responded to calls or witnessed incidents involving minors being harmed. These two questions established that I was surveying the people with the experience relevant to answering the deeper questions. Adult Guardians for Minors are Nearly Non-Existent. To get an idea of current trends, I asked responders whether an adult guardian was present the last time they responded to a call involving a minor. Eighty six percent of the first responders said no adult guardian accompanied the minor in the last incident, leaving only 5% of responders indicating some form of adult guardian was present. But that's just the last incident they recall. I wanted to know more. The next question asked them how often they encounter adult guardians with the minors that they interact with. A whopping ninety-four percent of responders indicated that almost never or rarely is an adult guardian present at the time. So what did we learn from these two questions? Well. The kids we see every day in the streets are usually unchaperoned. Lacking adult guidance and supervision, they're more likely to get involved in dangerous scenarios that lead them into interactions with emergency services and then have to navigate those interactions on their own. Without this guidance, LEOs and Medical Staff are forced to play babysitter for unchaperoned kids involving themselves in risky situations and it likely leads to some delays in responding to other emergency services. But it's not just a slow-down in emergency response times that's the risk here. There's a big fucking risk that I had to ask about. Are these kids safe? Kids are Fucking Dying. Guys, I'm going to be real with you. I don't have a funny haha joke for this shit. Fifty-seven percent of emergency responders indicate that Minor fatalities are "Often" or "Almost always" involved in these types of calls. Only fifteen percent of responders indicated Minor fatalities were rare or almost never happened in their experience. That is fucking insane. This reveals that half the time these folks are called onto scenes involving minors, it involves the death of the child. We established above that these kids are mostly unaccompanied by adults and the consequences are often enough death before they get a chance to actually live their lives. This is deeply fucked up. But is there anything that can be done? Survey says.... Most First Responders Support a Citywide Curfew. I've spoken extensively to sources within the Police Department, politicians, and civilians about this problem and one solution that kept getting brought up in casual conversation was some form of city-wide curfew for minors in order to make sure in the late hours of the night they aren't wandering into their own deaths or causing the deaths of others. Seventy-six percent of responders supported a curfew as a possible solution to this problem. And when we just look at medical first responders a little over half of them agree that a curfew might help curtail the amount of kids dying in the streets. All in All I know this is different from my usual content. I know it's super-duper serious and kind of sad. I'm not blind or deaf to the tone shift here. But I have a platform, I have the best readers in Los Santos, and I am a complex Vixen with complex tastes. When we've got politicians running for office on vague issues, I want to smash their face into a paper that shows a real fucking problem and have them create real fucking solutions. None of this charity mingling bullshit, none of this vague Red Versus Blue posturing. They can fuck off with all of that nonsense. Police Officers and EMTs are not childcare workers and they are not babysitters. We have real problems. They have real consequences. We demand real solutions. Vixen Out. XOXO, DISCLAIMER >Comments are enabled!