Are most neighborhood drug dealers evil enough to murder a neighbor who reports them to the police?
493129
Their criminals and in what they do, you should assume they are dangerous.\n\nTo me, it's worth the risk to get them away from my kids and their friends. Drugs kill kids in more ways than one. Crime activity also drops the value of your home.\n\nYou should be safe in making anonymous calls to report this person. You should never approach on your own.\n\nIn short, you bet they can kill. That's why you don't want them there anymore.
202631
How is this wierd? drug dealers usually sell because they are materialistic and selfish or else they would have a legal, lower paying job. That is a stereotype. Not ALL drug dealers are bad people some need to be shown the way and learn from their mistake and become productive citizens in society.
619873
I say yes.\n\nIf they're making the conscious CHOICE to enter your home, then you have the obvious reciprocal choice to make them pay for theirs.\n\nIf they're committing a crime in the first place, especially such a personal one...shouldn't they be punished for being such an obvious dumb@$$?\n\nNow, generally, I won't shoot to kill...but I'll be damned if I won't shoot to maim someone breaking into my home.
880349
It is so much safer having a police officer living in the neighborhood. the only people who wouldn't want them living in their neighborhood is someone who is doing something illegal and fears that the police officer will find out.
582195
I have difficulty participating in issues that are negative.  \n\nIn a drug deal, you mean someone who purchased a narcotic to endanger their own body?  \n\nOr are you talking about someone killing someone for snatching a drug from someone selling it, without paying for it?\n\nThe Bible states that moderation is the key to substances.  So, if you are drinking as long as you are not drunk, if you take in substances that alter your state of mind as long as you are not out of control.\n\nMorally we are not supposed to violate laws that have authority over us.  If you were a policeman you would not be able to ignore it.  \n\nSo, you would have to report it to whatever authority deals with that.  The consequences are what usually makes people turn a blind eye.
1076765
Cut you neighbors grass, wash cars!\nBabysit\nand if you live in the ghetto sell dope!!!!\n\nDisclaimer, The writer of this answer does not condone the sale of illegal substances!!!!!
1066956
None of that sounds like they are doing anything bad. You should stop being racist and leave them alone. The fact is that you DONT know if they are legal or not! I hate people like you, you are a horrible neighbor! Mind your own damned business!
859310
This is why people hate cops.  I'm a law abiding citizen, but I REFUSE to let a cop into my house for ANY reason.  I won't have it.  They can come into the yard, and I'll meet them out there to "talk".  When I build my house, I will have a "recieving area" in the front that will not have a direct entrance into the rest of the house.  \n\nSorry if it offends the good cops, but just like the criminals don't wear badges that say they won't resist arrest or aren't armed, I won't know if it's a dirty cop using sly tactics to set me up, or if it's just a legitmate conversation about what's happening.
454224
I've asked this same question ... makes no sense to me.  "Some" child molestors, people convicted for homicide, murder, rape ... get less time than than drug dealers.  I beleive the governement is pissed because they lose "tax" money on the drug industry so they will at least squander and pilfer the money from the dealers through prison time.
921840
Any crime that has someone losing out or suffering when they shouldn't should be reporting. It's not just a legal thing, it's conscience as well. I guess if it was a relative or best friend you obviously wouldn't report them.\nI would take a stab at it being every-ones duty to report crimes and illegal activities that they may witness...\n\nMake the police earn their pay ;o)\n\nJems x
184650
Yes, and a criminal, a murderer, a druglord, and others.
560114
Selling drugs is ILLEGAL!!! Stay away from the house. If the Police raid it and you are there you will be charged with frequenting a known drug establishment. It doesnt matter if they sell once a day or 100 times a day. A drug house is a drug house.
108063
An interesting question.  \n\nTalk shows find them because:\n\nA) It's not illegal to go on TV and admit to being a drug dealer.  Can't be arrested for it, can't be prosecuted for it, and certainly won't go to jail for it.  Plus..there's a bonus: you get paid for it.\n\nB) People who want to enjoy the benefits of the above might well claim to be a drug dealer when in fact they aren't currently dealing, or never did.  How many talk shows have been exposed in the past for questionable guests?\n\nC) As the other poster said, it's not like they're hard to find.  And once they've been found, there's really no reason for them to deny being a dealer to some talk show producer or staffer...it's not like the producer or staffer is going to arrest them, is it?\n\nD) Probably more, but it's silly to continue.  \n\nWhy can't cops find them?\n\n1) They can.  I've been a cop for 19 years now, and I have *never* seen someone in my jurisdiction get arrested for dealing where I didn't already know they were.  So you need to remember that there's a real difference between knowing who they are and where they are, versus being able to develop enough probable cause to arrest them.  Stop and think about all the things you *know* to be true in your heart, yet if you had to prove them true in a court of law, you could not.\n\n2) Drug dealers generally don't do their dealing in front of the police.  At least not in front of people they know or suspect to be the police.  Hard to know if the guy on the corner is a drug dealer, male prostitute, or dentist if all he's doing is standing there.  \n\n3)  Cops generally don't have the same kind of money and resources available to them like talk shows do, to locate drug dealers.  A cop can't walk up to someone on the corner, slip them a twenty, and tell them to point out the closest dealer.  \n\nAnd while it's true that the "big fish" are more attractive targets perhaps, nobody should assume that the police have no interest in street-level dealers.  It's those idiots who often rat out their suppliers...the bigger dealers and the manufacturers/distributors.  \n\nAnd no, the police can't find "them all" because the minute one dealer is arrested, two more step in to take his place.  Then, because we truly operate the finest justice system in the world, these guys dealing dope to your kids are often out of jail in less than a week.  You'd be a fool to believe that they stop dealing, just because they've been arrested and are waiting trial.
956847
It depends...  If my neighbor were trying to kill people or rape his daughter, I would probably force my morals on him and try and stop him.
881658
yes if he is a bad criminal person.. but no if he is living without doing any harm to people
618227
No, because if you shoot them you'll go to jail.\n\nAnd don't act like a Latino has never stolen anything in your neighborhood. Because I know a lot of Hispanic thieves
971543
I think it is common today what you are saying. I hear stories like this a lot, and it's not getting better. They do stick up for each other and in a way I don't blame them. They have a tough job that I know I wouldn't want. I will say there are a lot of good Cops that get a bad reputation because of the bad ones. What would help is every six months have them take Drug tests, and a polygraph test.