What To Do About That Pesky Drug Dealer?
Here’s a specific situation facing a tenant in a building but his question could also apply more broadly to illicit activity going on in the vicinity of your home: I’ve got quite the interesting situation going on in my building. I live on the first floor, and I know for a fact that there’s a…
Here’s a specific situation facing a tenant in a building but his question could also apply more broadly to illicit activity going on in the vicinity of your home:
This makes me extremely uncomfortable to know that this type of activity is so close to home. Because this goes on at all hours of the night and keeps me awake, I want to call the police and report this, but I also am wary of the “don’t snitch” edict in this neighborhood. I should also mention that even when not dealing, this guy and some friends are usually smoking blunts in the hallway (right outside my door) from 12am to 2am on weeknights.
I just don’t know what to do: (A) suck it up and wait til August and hope to get some sleep before then OR (B) call the police, hope that the dealer doesn’t figure out it’s me, and maybe have an increased chance of sleep. I’ve posted about this before, and the situation is now even worse. Anyone out there have advice?
Any thoughts?
Drug Dealer in Building [Brooklynian]
“Weird – I’ve never heard of dealers who do business where they live”
Yeah, that happens a lot. I knew of a guy who was running a whole operation out of his [big] apt. His dining room table was full of product, and he had employees around, always doing something.
I think, how you handle the situation says a lot about the type of person you are. Hence, I won’t offer an advice.
“The prevalence of this type of attitude in a neighborhood is pretty much my litmus test for whether or not I would live there.”
NSR – you realize there’s a TON of dealers in your neighborhood too right? they just pull up in cars and your neighbors hop in them for 5 seconds while they make their transaction.
God – Slopers as a whole are probably some of the biggest stoners in the city – so if you think marijuana is a “gentrification” issue – it’s not.
And if you call the cops about someone dealing dime bags out of your hallway they will laugh at you – it’s not worth the hassle.
“Getting the police involved is just going to ruin someones life.
Also, let’s all just say it, loud and clear: Gentrification.”
Now there’s an intelligent attitude…NOT. What makes anyone think that long time residents and oldtimers wouldn’t love to see the drug dealers go? I have news for you- the ones in my neighborhood happen to want a safe, decent neighborhood to live in, and quite a few of them have spent years working to improve it. They don’t need gentrifyers to do it for them, and they don’t want people with be kind to your friendly drug dealer attitude complaining about it.
No offense sdrubbins but…ok, you complain to the cops and, provided they’re not in on it, eventually come by to take a lookeyloo around. Maybe an arrest, IF they catch them in the act.
When this guy comes back, gee let’s see who could have ratted me out–people from here and know the deal, or that new guy on the 1st floor who looks scared shit every time he comes in the front door???
OP you don’t belong. MOVE
“Getting the police involved is just going to ruin someones life.”
The prevalence of this type of attitude in a neighborhood is pretty much my litmus test for whether or not I would live there.
I guess I’ll never be a gentrifier.
“Also, let’s all just say it, loud and clear: Gentrification.”
Yeah seriously – were gonna get all the old school people on here saying crap like “i remember the good old days when we could sell dime bags out of the lobby of our building – then the newcomers came in with their strollers, cafes, wine bars and marijuana delivery men and ruined everything”
The choices aren’t that stark. The guy can call the cops anonymously and lodge a complaint. The more such complaints there are about a dealer or building, the greater the chance that detectives will go in and deal with it – whether by observing sales, using an informant, or using an undercover officer, it doesn’t have to involve this tenant at all. Even if it happens after the tenant moves away, it helps the police to have that bit of information, and could help new residents down the road.
I lived something similar back in the mid-90s, in Chelsa–hot and cold running crackheads, was getting very out of hand. It’s a deal breaker on a lease — MOVE
Why don’t you just buy a dimebag off the guy and be like “look man, make the people go upstairs”?
Getting the police involved is just going to ruin someones life.
Also, let’s all just say it, loud and clear: Gentrification.