Since the above sentences were in the same paragraph I assumed you were talking about neighborhoods like HM mentioned in both sentences.
I know you were, that's why I said stereotypes die hard.
HM was talking about East St. Louis...and of course there are decent people everywhere but windsor88's article can help you to understand a little better.
Windsor's article posted well after HM's refers to East St. Louis Illinois. I was under the impression that HM was refering to the east side of St. Louis, Missouri. Up here we put the North, South, East West descriptives
AFTER rather than before as you guys like to do it, and not being as familiar with many US cities, I thought he was refering to St. Louis, MO. I believe I qualified that in my statement saying I wasn't familiar with the city.
In any event, there was nothing in HM's post to indicate the area was a high crime rate one, ...simply that the people were less fortunate.
That may be from your personal experience because those were the types of places you went and yes, they do exist but my police officer friends can assure you that most drug dealers are not found living in nicer neighborhoods. Although "nicer [neighborhoods]" can be a relative term.
Maybe your police officer friends should work a better beat. {lol}
Last night after I posted that, I happened to pick up the paper and there was a huge article about TO's latest drug bust. Maybe drug dealers in Canada are swankier than those in the USA, ...or maybe our police focus more on destroying the beehive rather than swatting the individual drones
, ...but John DeLorean was a pretty swanky high profile take down.
