Connie Beckers wrote:
I hear that. Sitting here watching sunset over the car dealers, having just heard from reliable sources that we are in for one dilly of a summer, hip deep in the drug trade fallout. I also understand that I'm gearing up for another of those battles I haven't had to contend with since about 2000, I think. I, too, am tired just remembering what all goes into combating this level of crap--again.Anyone else in North Mpls, specifically the Folwell neighborhood, hear a lot of gunfire last night between 9 and 10 pm? ....
My foster son, now an adult who lives with us, was robbed at gun point on our front porch. In the last two weeks double the number of prostituted women have appeared, and they're not local women either. The number of drug dealers has skyrocketed and none of the newbies are local. (We had more or less come to an "accommodation" with the locals, but the influx of newbies began about 6-8 wks. ago, and these jerks deliberately alienate everyone for miles, to make it easier for the drug trade, while simultaneously recruiting our teenagers and pre-teens into the gangs.)
Word on the street and from youth outreach workers is that hoards of drug gang bangers are moving into the city from the west coast and Chicago for the summer, both bloods and crips, but others as well. They're moving in and setting up business and have no clue as to who the local bloods and crips are, and whose just a "cousin" but not quick enough to avoid the lure of gangs. There will be turf wars this summer among all these gunsels and all us people who live here will be the victims right along with whoever gets shot, fire bombed, beaten, robbed. The lucky ones will only be scared witless.
We are back to men whistling signals in the street at 3 a.m. Up and down the street our cars have been vandalized, not once, but twice for some and three times for others. Right now I have to rebuild and change the type of fencing in my back yard to create protected off street parking for car, bicycles, garbage cans, and recycle containers. Gang members, in order to intimidate people who might consider peeping out their windows and dialing 911, defecate in the recycle containers, steal the garbage cans to use to carry the loot from break-ins they commit (dumping the garbage around, of course), and steal and vandalize the cars. Not to mention that if they can make tracks through the yard, our quality of life is gone, and our likelihood of being broken into rises dramatically.
Already the smallest and therefore most vulnerable of us, also a good looking young woman, can no longer walk down the block to the bus stop without hassle. One jerk circled around the area three times, then finally parked his car and came up to her on foot to insist that she "ride" with him. Johns just turn my stomach anyway, creepy troglodytes that they are. Wolf whistles, come ons, crap constantly from every male with a big mouth and a tiny brain. I feel very bad for her, the locals had quit trying that ploy.
What's even worse, I want to cut and run, and say the hell with it all. Been here, done this, got the t-shirt.
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