HOW TO DRAG A PORTLAND DRUG HOUSE

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Dragging the gut for young baby boomer is not the same as dragging Portland drug house.

If you are in the drug life, a drug house next door is perfect.

If you’re not in the life, the neighbor might crowd your style.

Imagine a quiet street of stately homes. Sprinkler systems, architectural lighting, and meth.

People drive in and when they drive out, they bounce off the curbs.

Others come by to check, maybe take them for a ride. It looks like Escape From LA.

After enough traffic you decide to call the police, who are not surprised.

They know the house, they know the people, and they call it a meth-friendly house.

Meth-friendly? There’s such a thing?

Police tried to cruise the house and got harassment complaints for their effort.

Neighbors call when customers leave their cars parked while they pick up, or deliver.

Still, no one can do anything. It’s a drug house with a good cover.

Is the next step calling the sheriff? State police? FBI? DEA? Who is in charge of dealing with white death?

If you’ve seen Faces of Meth, you know the story, you know the road, and you know how it ends.

Stopping the meth-evolution in plain sight seems worthy, even if you don’t get help.

A lawman from another city broke it down.

• Police departments need to build a case, and it goes slow. You can show up with a needle and packet of white powder and they can’t do anything.
• They need neighborhood involvement in the way of calls and complaints.
• If you don’t get results with 911 non-emergency call, make calls directly to the police department and ask to talk to the chief, or commander, or the MAN in charge.
• Once the chief gets tired of hearing from the same people about the same problem, he’ll focus resources on the problem.
• You may volunteer your home as a stake out so policemen can record their observations.
• You may set up cameras to record your observations and create the foundation for a drug case.

You may confront the traffic or dealers, and tell yourself you’re ready for that conflict.

The problem comes up that drug culture conflict comes in different flavors than fat suburban man conflict.

One may be settled with knives and guns instead of sharp words and stern warnings.

My police source said the difference between inner city and other places is the jump from argument to bloodshed. It goes fast when you’re used to it; it’s shocking when your not used to it and find a big gash on your arm leaking all over the place.

If you have an active drug house with traffic flowing past your front yard, take notes, make calls, and appear neutral.

Hard drug deals don’t always have a happy ending, and you don’t want to be a target.