The trials and tribulations of a citizen trying to rid his neighborhood of drugs and hookers, and the failure of the system.Not being an activist, this war was started by the area drug dealers and hookers who keep our neighborhood awake all hours of the night, seven days a week.
I have lived in this house since 1993. Hookers and drug dealers have lived in the corner house the last several of those over 10 years. The police seem to be powerless to do anything. The system is broken.
This is February 7th, 2004. It is 3:30AM. The police have been on this block twice tonight. Each time was annoying.
FIRST: About 9:30 PM flashing lights drew me to the front door. A man was sitting in a car, bouncing around, flinging himself back and forth. A police car was behind him. The officer approached the car, talked to the driver, then told him to calm down and shortly thereafter, left. From my position, it appeared the driver was either crazy or on drugs.
SECOND: About 1:00 AM my dogs began barking. A woman approached a mini-van parked across the street. (Most likely a hooker). She got in and they left. About 1:30 AM my dogs barked again, I looked out my front window and saw a car parked on the side street. There are no houses this car could be visiting parking at this location. I assumed it was the hooker in the mini-van. Since my sister lives in the house across the street, and this car was next to her bedroom windows, I called 911 to report a suspicious vehicle, probably a hooker. This was 1:28 AM. About 10 minutes later THREE police cars arrived. They surrounded the car, asked where the people lived, and the female told them an address in the middle of the block. They were parked around the corner in the middle of the night? The driver was told to move along, turned the corner and pulled up to the house next to where the female passenger lived. Not to her address.
I am not in a financial position where I can just up and move. Plus I have an elderly mother and my sister lives alone, across the street. Someone from the Mayor's office suggested the best thing I could do is move. Not solve the problem.
My house was burglarized the third month I lived here. So I got a couple of big dogs. One's a chow. No one is going to come into my yard uninvited, again.
Imagine being woke up by a semi-tractor parked in front of your house at 3AM. A hooker doing business. A residential street. I called the police, they arrived, they left.
Oklahoma City has a video vigilante who chases down hookers with a video camera. He actively follows known hookers. Calls 911 and gets them on tape. I'll give you a link to his website shortly. Go to the part about the court actions on his reports. It will make you very mad!!!
Why I started this website . . .