Description

At 1428 Dickinson Street, between the hours of 11am and 4pm of any given day, especially when its sunny and warm, there are between 4 to 6 young men selling drugs and being verbally abusive and threatening to residents. At 4pm the same group of young men can be found at 1527 S. Carlisle Street where they remain all through the night drinking and smoking.

If the police to come and tell the youth that neighbors have been complaining the youth then resort to threatening the neighbors to not contact the police. This leaves the entire neighborhood at the whim of this group of youth. Residents do not call 911 any more in fear of retaliation.

These young men block the sidewalk, forcing neighbors to have to cross to the other side of the street to pass by. The young men are often verbally abusive and threatening to neighbors passing by. Most of us neighbors have resorted to using side streets to avoid this block of Dickinson. Whenever the police to stop and address the young men the next day they go around to all the neighbors and ask if they called the police and threaten them to not do so. When the police are actually called somehow the young men seem to know ahead of time. At around 4pm the same group of young men can be found at 1527 S. Carlisle Street. Here, there lives a young man in a wheelchair that goes by J.R. and is more or less their ring-leader. After 4pm at any given evening you can find these young men sitting on their neighbors stoops rolling blunts. The remnants of the blunts can by found nearly every morning littering the sidewalk and street. Whenever the police come in response to 911 they suspect all of their neighbors and are threatening to the point that neighbors do not call 911 any more in fear of retaliation.