I live in a nice neighborhood, not an upscale one but a very nice working class area. A couple of years ago a young drug dealer rented one of the houses on my street....all the others are occupant owned. Since then we've been dragged from our sleep by his customers leaving the house between 1 A.M. and 5 A.M. and yelling filth. Teenagers from the local high school even frequent this house at lunch time. Since this young man is known to the police and the partying goes on most nights of the week, I can't understand why this has gone on so long without police surveilance putting a stop to it. The young man is related to one of the well known drug lords in the city so neighbors are rightly worried about reporting him or complaining about the noise. Last night, at 4 A.M., I was fed up and phoned police to stop the noise but, of course, by the time police arrived all was quiet. Now I wonder if I've put myself in danger by complaining.
One thing I've learned in my life is that law abiding, tax paying people are not as quickly protected by law enforcement as we'd like to think. Criminals know all the loop holes and weak points in the law. They use our tax dollars for lawyers to defend them even when they've been caught in the act. Many jails have been turned into spas because of "human rights" activists. I can only hope my local drug dealer will move away one day and then my nice little neighborhood will return to normal. This is a selfish thought, I know, but its the only reasonable outcome I can expect.
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