| Chronic drug house activity is a major cause of neighborhood decay. Most drug house activity (dealing, manufacturing, or growing) is on rental property. Owner-occupant drug houses are the exception. Law enforcement alone cannot solve the problem. The Milwaukee Police Department needs your help in identifying suspected drug houses in your neighborhood.
To report a drug house, citizens are asked to file a Drug Complaint Form; PD- 44. This form asks for key information needed to identify legitimate complaints of illegal drug activities in your neighborhood.
Drug complaint forms can be processed with an officer's assistance at any Milwaukee Police District. For more information contact the Milwaukee Police Department's Vice Control Division at 414-935-7411.
For anonymous reporting of drug activities be prepared to provide detailed information.
Contact:
The Milwaukee Drug Abatement Program at
414-643-1968
HOW DO I KNOW IF A DRUG HOUSE IS ACTIVE IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD?The business of a "Drug House" is more or less the same in any community. The danger signs of a "Drug House" are the public nuisance that it creates.
DRUG HOUSE DANGER SIGNS
- Increased short-term auto and pedestrian visits to a particular house or apartment.
- Cars speeding up and down the street, honking or "burning rubber" as they speed away.
- Increase in litter such as used syringes, plastic bags, glass pipes, bottles, trash, stacks of used matches, and graffiti.
- Increase in crimes like auto burglaries, home burglaries, robbery, vandalism, and assault.
- Increase in noise such as loud voices, fights, gun fire, and loud radios especially at night.
- Active prostitution in or around the neighborhood.
WHOSE RESPONSIBILITY IS IT TO GET RID OF A DRUG HOUSE? |