Hello everyone,
Evelyn here,
With another update on the illegal drug sale on the corner of my street and the people who have done the selling. These are rough customers, yet I believe that reporting and publicly denouncing their illegal activities is the way to stop the drug sales as well as the commotion that goes on at the corner.
They are trying to maintain that corner and have tried to create more than one trouble situation for me. However, this is the time for the other families who want the illegal drugs sale on ours street to stop, and particularly that corner, to step up and voice their complaints to the police department. I have and I made it clear that I do not like the sale of these drugs, the harm that the pushers have done to this block and neighborhood, and the harm they have done to the families who have tried to stop them.
Will the other residents speak out? I do not know, but I for one want a drug free neighborhood and since the sellers of these drugs are trying to sell on my street it must stop here on this block – on this avenue.
The habit of these pushers so far has been to go from corner to another corner to sell their illegal drugs. Generally, the residents of one avenue push them to another avenue or block, but this method solves nothing, and the pushers then attempt to control to the new block. If the residents of the new block turns a blind eye to what is happening, out of fear or because they are part of the situation, the pushers gain control of the street and the selling of the illegal drugs begin again. Meanwhile the residents on the previous block breathe a sigh of relief because they feel that they do not have to deal with the drug problem any longer.
This is just passing the problem on to others, and makes the pushers meaner and more determine to control the new block.
It is important to realize and accept that the illegal sale of drugs is a neighborhood problem and that each resident must step forward to help stop it. There are agencies in the city that can help. The local government can help organize a formal march against the selling of the drugs; a report of each incident of suspicious activities at and around the pushers home. This can be frequent activities at odd hours -- the night or day, Moreover, report every attempt to harass, harm and/or in the case of what I experienced of late, attempts to create an incident that would bring the police to question the one attempting to stop the illegal actions. An example but a true incident is one male of their group jumping in front of my car this weekend. I was driving to church. However, I also saw him milled together and thought something was about to occur before it happen. I also saw the people who try to protect them, so I knew that what occurred was a setup. I reported it.
My point in this is that not everyone can be trusted, and I do not advise doing so. A lot can be done anonymously to stop the sale of these illegal drugs if a fear of retaliation is a factor. They have attempted to cause my problems on the job and with in the neighborhood, but they were reported and they can be stopped and so can the selling of their drugs.
When I first wrote this someone was playing very loud music from a vehicle. This is one was they harass the families living here, and to my knowledge, no one has picked up a phone to report the driver of the vehicle. The families here are mistaken if they think the drug problem will go away or that the pushers have not or will not harm them or affect their lives in anyway. They already have, and because the pushers want to maintain control over this area, the selling of illegal drug here will not get better by ignoring it.
This is the time to get rid of this illegal drug problem. The pushers want to be your friend for their own selfish reason. I am sure some of them have children, but so do you. So why should your hard earned money go to provide for their children, and their needs while children and you go without?
These are the facts, harsh but true.
Evelyn out.
