[NuckingFutz]

Came home from a nice visit with my best friend. There were 3 police cruisers and a firetruck in the parking lot. The girl that lives under me and 3 African guys were cuffed and facing the wall. The girl was the same one who started stalking my friend. Wasn't sure what was going on. Lucky one of the officers remembered me from when I was a dispatcher. It was great that he told me what was going on. Turns out that the girl had all the elements of a crack house in her apartment...porn running on tv, 5 people crowded into a small one bedroom apartment in the dark, crack smoke in the air, pipes in people's crotches, lots of cash, powder cocaine and the stuff to turn it into crack. Was told she was "servicing someone". They were expecting a dealer and so one of the guys opens the door...to the police instead. My policeman friend said she is well known at his substation as her own daughter turned her mother in for drugs...her daughter is in foster care. About to get her daughter back but not anymore. She was bad.

[possum220]

You is just lucky I guess nucking - lols

Just another day in the life?

[NuckingFutz]

Actually I have only had problems since I have lived in Section 8 housing. Apparently some landlords do not do backround checks like ordinary rental units. Afterall, when was the last time you felt the need to ask your prospective landlord "do you allow felons, drug addicts, child abusers, or illegal immigrants to rent with you. This ironic because on the regular market, they do not rent to anyone like this to protect their other residents. Go figure!

[Perna]

The section 8 housing near us has lots of trouble, including murders!

"Deputies pursued the man toward Edgewater Village, tracking him into an apartment by wet footprints leading toward the door.

"Although a female occupant said no one had entered, Cochran was arrested after he jumped from a second-floor window wearing only his boxer shorts, court records said. The occupant of the house on Grempler Way said his height, weight and hairstyle matched the man she saw."

[NuckingFutz]

Now that is comforting. Well, I am just going to lay low when I am here. Not answer the door (my friends call before they come over anyway).

[sabby]

Laying low is a good idea NF. I'm sorry that kind of stuff is happening in your building. It's very unnerving I'm sure.

But, let me tell you, this kind of thing happens everywhere, not just Section 8 housing. Here is an article from our local newspaper about a couple in Franklin who were living right near downtown (small town NH) and not in Section 8 housing either - http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/p...NTPAGE/4080363

It's so unfortunate that no matter where you live these days, this kind of thing happens.....more than unfortunate, it's damned scary!

[NuckingFutz]

Yeah it is scarey. These people do this stuff no matter what the consequences are...maybe they get involved in street drugs to escape whatever reality they are avoiding and later down the line they get sent to prison and have to deal with their lives without those mind altering drugs. Karma maybe?

More and more I realize how little the law means to so many. The law only counts if someone is caught. Then the caught must be convicted. And in the U.S., convicted they are:

• The U.S. has 5 percent of the world’s people – but 24 percent of the world’s prisoners.
• In absolute numbers and as a percentage of the population, the U.S. has more prisoners than any other country, including China and Russia.
• From the 1920’s until the 1970’s, the U.S. prison population was stable at about 110 per 100,000, about the same as our peer nations today. But now more than 700 people out of every 100,000 are behind bars.

In the United States today there are more prisoners than farmers. And while most prisoners in America are from urban communities, most prisons are now in rural areas. During the last two decades, the large-scale use of incarceration to solve social problems has combined with the fall-out of globalization to produce an ominous trend: prisons have become a "growth industry" in rural America.

Report of the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice

“The additional cost of confining an inmate to death row, as compared to the maximum security prisons where those sentenced to life without possibility of parole ordinarily serve their sentences, is $90,000 per year per inmate. With California’s current death row population of 670, that accounts for $63.3 million annually.”

Using conservative rough projections, the Commission estimates the annual costs of the present (death penalty) system to be $137 million per year.
The cost of the present system with reforms recommended by the Commission to ensure a fair process would be $232.7 million per year.
The cost of a system in which the number of death-eligible crimes was significantly narrowed would be $130 million per year.
The cost of a system which imposes a maximum penalty of lifetime incarceration instead of the death penalty would be $11.5 million per year.

http://www.bvblackspin.com/2010/04/0...voting-rights/

How disheartening.