It has aggravated street violence and even become part of the built environment, infesting black neighborhoods with the dangerous nuisance of crack houses. Jarrette Fellows knows these things all too well. The newly appointed editor of the L.A. Watts Times lives on 85th and Vermont in South-Central. He has watched two sisters fall victim to crack. I live next to a rock house.
People deal money through windows.
It strikes the anonymous as well as those with high profiles. But for their loved ones forced to stand by and watch, the process is excruciatingly slow and painful. And it never really ends. Now she contends with a crack-addled son, who flew down from San Francisco recently to celebrate his 46th birthday with her. He was a naval officer for 16 years before getting derailed by the drug.