Скачать или смотреть Patrolling the 5th District: How Cops Outsmarted Dope Houses

Former St. Louis cops Billy Noonan and Joe Crews break down what it was really like patrolling the 5th District in the 90s and early 2000s. These weren’t just random drug houses — they were family-run operations where everyone knew every car and every face on the block.

To catch them, officers had to get creative: dressing down, sneaking into vacant houses, and watching how dealers stashed dope under hubcaps, in yards, and anywhere else they thought cops wouldn’t look.

This is the gritty reality of street-level policing — where neighborhood knowledge was everything, and catching a dope dealer often meant outsmarting an entire block.

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