It is in apartment complexes, back yards, wherever kids hang out. This is where the battle is today. We have high school students arrested for selling coke out of their bedroom, we have designer drugs easy to obtain, just not at the obvious places, but almost every kid knows where they could get this stuff. DuPage has an active countywide drug undercover unit, with its own set of prosecutors, but the current state of drug affairs has caused Zaruba and others to call for more help. The DuPage sheriff's office will start blending more of its gang and drug unit work forces and possibly add four members.
Gang activity seems to have leveled off, except when it comes to drugs.
Several years ago, Naperville police took a national lead in having their officers patrol the Internet looking for sexual predators. Today, many DuPage departments have their own patrol. DuPage has almost a million people, and some crime is inevitable. Since we have to be concerned with the future, we need continued work on white collar crime and elderly crime, because we will all be there at some point. In Kane County, reports of crime dropped in all eight categories from 1998 to 1999, combining for a fall of almost 11 percent from 1998.