I have neighbors that I think are dealing drugs. There are several people coming in and out of their apartment none stop daily. I counted 13 cars, some twice the other day. At night they will turn off their lights as soon as they pull in. And they never stay more than a few minutes. One person that I seen going in was a neighbor at a previous address that went to jail for poss. of crack. Question is, I have called the city police 3 times and left my name and number and left messages on the narcotics officers voice mail. I have not gotten any call backs. What would be the next step? State police?
2007-07-17 07:10:54 · 7 answers · asked by itsthewill 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
In my city, when the citizens complaints aren't being addressed in a timely enough fashion, they go to their councilmen.
We keep pretty busy out there and have a few known dope houses we keep tabs on. This means we may not be able to get to each citizen complaint quickly. Call your councilman and let him know the story and ask him to look into it. The chief will get an e-mail, which will trickle to patrol, and something will be done.
Heres the other scenario, which is often the deal. Your local narco cops are already aware of the place and are working it now. They may being doing controlled buys and getting someone into the ring. This place next to you may be a mid level guy that is leading them right to the higher up. The cops don't want to call you back and tip their hand. I would assume however that someone would call you back and at least give the brush-off like they're "gonna look into it".
Also, then DEA doesn't really deal with smaller local dealer cases like this. Unless they already had a link to this place, they would just blow it off and thank you for the call.
2007-07-17 07:28:43 · answer #1 · answered by California Street Cop 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately, you are doing all you can do. Police do have these people under surveillance, but cannot do anything until they actually catch them in the act.
This happened to me about 15 years ago. I lived in a house where the next door neighbors, a family, split up because of the husband's problem with crack. Next thing you know there are a lot of people in this house and all the neighbors are getting burgalarized about once every week.
When we were robbed, that was the last straw. The police with our permission set up surveillance in our home for about a week and then left for 2 days. We, the neighbors, took it upon ourselves to discover it was a repossessed VA home and nailed the doors shut with nine inch nails and being a coastal town, we pulled the hurricane shutters shut, then we picked up mail daily and mowed, as a neighborhood.
One day, one of the crack dealers came back. Officers were called, neighbors were home (it was a saturday) so we all came out with the officers identified him immediately and solved our problem.
Sometimes it takes a neighborhood of people and several robberies to finally get the people. In the meantime, the crackheads moved us out of our home completely during our burgurlary. I mean we were completely moved out down to the refridgerator and baby's crib to the tv's and all the clothes in all the closets in one night while we visited my parents. It was over $75,000 worth of merchandise. And, we got back $25,000 from insurance 6 weeks later. We all slept on the floor on blankets until the insurance came through. Then, after 6 weeks we were burgurlarized a second time, but we had installed 2 inch deadbolt double keyed entry locks on the back door and that's where the burglar got caught.
Horrid things happen. Get to know the good neighbors too.
2007-07-17 07:37:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would actually go into the police department in your jurisdiction and discuss my issue and file a complaint against what activities were going on in my neighborhood. I would also request more police patrol in my area. It's your home and neighborhood, you should never have to deal with safety issues like that. It's your safe haven and if you don't feel safe, they need to know. After you fill out a report I would let them do their job. If you don't see any changes after a couple months, I would return to the police department and follow up with your concerns. Perhaps they are doing an on going sting investigation in that particular area. Your not being a snoop, your just taking care of your neighborhood and getting rid of the garbage. I would even keep a log of license plate numbers, make/model of vehicles, descriptions of what people look like and what they did and the times/dates it occurred. (Facts only. You don't want to be a fanatic, you just want to be smart.)
Hope this helps. I feel for ya.
2007-07-17 09:24:50 · answer #3 · answered by puka 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe they are casing the place ... and trying to find out who is supplying the drugs
honestly I'd rather they go after the supplier
the users (imho) have a social issue, not a criminal one ... and they don't belong in jail
but I wouldn't want them hanging outside of my apartment either :) ... gl man
2007-07-17 07:32:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
call your state DEA-Drug Enforcement Agency
2007-07-17 07:14:10 · answer #5 · answered by sandg94 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The mayor's office. Then the local district attorney.
2007-07-17 07:20:12 · answer #6 · answered by regerugged 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
call the DEA.
2007-07-17 07:16:36 · answer #7 · answered by Lavrenti Beria 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋