Drug house update →[More:]
So the letter from the city council president went out Thursday. Also, per channels, the landlords -- two of them for three properties on this block, and another one two blocks away from us -- all would have had meetings with a nuisance case officer from the police department during the last week or early next.

Unsurprisingly things have changed little. I think I got a little more moderation from them beginning a week ago Saturday when I was awakened at 5am by a noisy departure, and called again at 7am and 7:30 as customers rolled in. I call the landlord, but only get his voicemail mostly; the first call I got his wife, and hissed at her "The food that you put on your table is bought with drug money!"

So this week, they put a blanket over the front window and confined almost all their activity to the night-time. Improvement in the sense that they were probably conforming to his request to be more discreet. For about two days there was absolutely no activity at all, further evidence of the lack of a normal family routine.

We still had some of the same cast of characters, though, and continued noisy behavior ramped up to "normal" at night Friday and Saturday, meaning a car coming and going every 20-30 minutes or so. And yesterday the boyfriend of the granddaughter (according to rumor, she isn't the tenant, her grandma is) appeared in full gang regalia, complete with Asian-style head bandana like a kamikaze pilot. Still pretty brazen, in other words.

Other stuff that apparently happened was that one of the dealers down the street (or his girlfriend) was evicted, and another seems to have gone to ground after being sought by the K9 unit around midweek (would have liked to have seen that). Combine that with the street construction and there's been no real daytime stream of customers.

Anyway, we'll probably have to wait a few days for any "results". As it was, I was woken up at 3am today by honking.