They have no respect for anybody. But he said the department's current emphasis is on targeting drug dealers, not specific houses. We're trying to get a handle on it. But a closer look at the properties that have been plagued by drug-dealing in years past makes it clear that once a property is used to sell drugs, it often continues to be used to sell drugs. More than half of the properties where police made at least one felony drug arrest last year were the scene of at least one arrest in 1997.
Life is never easy for the people who live near drug houses.
They walk around like the world is theirs alone and no one is allowed to participate. Police made six felony narcotics arrests at the house over two years, records show. I'd never seen anything like it in my life. Ward repeatedly called City Council members and the police department's anonymous drug tip line. The police did show up.