ToquiNotes: Growing Area Drug Problem Includes Mix of Crips and Bloods
By Jeff Toquinto on November 01, 2014 from ToquiNotes
By Jeff Toquinto on November 01, 2014 from ToquiNotes
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The officer says it wasn't like this 20 years ago but I can remember reading the arrest records in the newspaper in the late 90's (15 yrs ago +/-) and seeing almost every other person having an address listed as McKeesport PA, and most of them were charged with selling crack. Actually that is the only reason I even know of the town. Of course I have no way of knowing if those people were connected to the ones currently selling heroin or if they were in a gang or not, but I do know that McKeesport PA has been providing our area with hard drugs for quite a while now. I am not involved with law enforcement in any way, I just picked this up from keeping up with the local news over time.
Another thing I have picked up from the local news is that our judges hand out much harder sentences to out of state criminals, and have done so for quite some time. I don't know what else can be done, our judges try to make examples out of them, our police are arresting these people left and right and it still doesn't stop. It's almost as if when one person goes to jail two more come to the area to take his or her place. I read an article a while back that said it is a problem of supply and demand and that our local police thought that if we could stop the demand that would help, while that is probably true it is going to be very hard to achieve. There must be something else we can do.
Posted by A. J. Miller
Nov. 01, 2014 at 6:51 AM EST
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