We've known for a while that there's a real battle [with gangs and drug dealers] going on in this area. It's sad that it came to this -- the murder of a little girl -- to bring the attention that this segment of Englewood needs.

The drug dealers with the grow-ops in the area come to steal my soil. They want to destroy my trees and take my soil. They even sneak around the bushes. The city told me to keep doing what I'm doing.

Gangs make it obvious. They want you to know they are there, that this is their area.

The drug tour he had hoped would be unique, his own, ... was apparently a widely known trip down a well-traveled path, in the sort of full-color brochure that also described gorilla encounters in Africa and white-water rafting on the Ganges and treks to the Everest base camp and birding in Mongolia.

We do not want terrorists or drug dealers crossing the frontier, either. We have to look for a way to help those people who have been living here for many years.

Thieves, thugs, those who drink and drive, and drug dealers: We're coming after you.