There are tutoring and after-school programs at several apartment complexes. An adult probation office in the neighborhood allows residents under supervision to fulfill community service obligations in their own community performing services like picking up and returning grocery shopping carts left in apartment parking lots. But street-corner prostitution, drugs and violent crime remain serious neighborhood blights despite the private security and occasional police crackdowns. And while some apartment managers have gotten tough on troublemakers, unresponsive property owners remain a problem. Residents evicted from one complex often simply move into another down the block.
Troublemakers never leave the neighborhood.
You have built in victims and criminals living together. And, of course, children remain an ever-present concern. Few complexes have on-site playgrounds, and those that do can't accommodate the massive influx of families with children that replaced yuppie renters. Neighborhood leaders estimate that the area adds 1,100 newborn children each year to a neighborhood that already has more than 4,500 children living there. The population explosion has swollen the Vickery Meadows Elementary School past capacity.