It is nice to see that Vancouver Police Department’s volunteer program Neighbors On Watch is recruiting. We’ve lived in Vancouver for seven years, the first four of which was spent ridding the area of meth dealers and other riffraff. It took being up late a lot and knocking on car windows and confronting meth dealers and never backing down. I had my house vandalized a few times. Someone even tried to turn off all my utilities and even posted things on the Internet to get me to stay quiet. In the end, I won. I cleaned up my area and several of my neighbors know I was hard at work on it for years.
From here, I speak only to those real men and women out there reading this: You and I are educated, and have much life experience. We own things we worked for. Our neighborhood is our financial gain or ruin. Own your neighborhood as I do mine. The small people you are fighting off are small for many reasons. You just have to take a stand. Be careful and do not attempt to be a hero, but do own your life and your neighborhood. You work for it. The drug dealers and gangs do not work for anything. You will always have the upper hand.
Allen Bennett Russell
Vancouver
