[QUOTE=JosephKerr;4402364]The pigs were All over last night, from Dixie to Powerline. And some sort of raid must have gone down over on 4th near JMar. I guess they're busting up the traps in the area?[/QUOTE]They've been doing some enhanced enforcement all over that immediate area recently. Much of this is due to the gentrification going on, on the east side of the tracks. That new apartment building will be opening soon, and there are a number of others going up in the area. Which is the reason why all the streets on the east side are dug up. To provide water and sewer service for high density housing. No one wants to look out their window and see girls on the stroll, or dope peddlers doing business. So the city is sending in the cops to sweep and clean the area up. Or at least push it further west and out of sight.
This is typical practice and is going on in Fort Lauderdale downtown area too, where there is massive high rise construction going on in the area of sunrise / broward / federal / the tracks. All part of urban development master planning, and Pompaho is cashing in huge on this, because the potential tax revenues are huge. The unintended (or perhaps intended) consequence is that minority communities are going to be priced out of their own neighborhoods.
So we're going to see some more enforcement in the areas bordering dixie, in an attempt to push the riff-raff out. It's all perception, and perception is politics. Which doesn't bode well for our hobby.
Rick.
