The crime column on crime in Belair-Edison continues to attract interest. Here's one person who lives nearby writing about some of her neighbors:

I, like Anthony Dawson, am somewhat perplexed about the influx of people into my neighborhood who do not value community. I live in the 1600 block of Darley Avenue which is not too far from Belair-Edison.  I truly empathize with the people in that community who want a better life for themselves.   For the past nine months I’ve watched tenants in a house four doors from my house destroy what used to be a beautiful row house.  Within two months of their arrival the rail that was attached to the house was broken off.  Within four months of their arrival they were involved in a physical fight that started about 2:00 a.m.  There is a constant procession of people in and out of the house at night and early in the morning.  Loud noise, loud music, cussing is the order of the day and the night.   Trash since they arrived on the scene is a constant.  They are not homebuyers, nobody in the house has a job. The landlord does not care what they do as long as he gets his rent.  The house next door to them is not occupied so they use the windowsill as an outdoor bar with beer bottles, wine bottles, soda cups and bottles lined up on the sill.  Reefer smoke particulate matter has become a major pollutant.  So what do we do?  I filed a complaint with Eastern District police department and have not see any change whatsoever.  If anything, they’ve gotten worse.

 

I like my house, I like my location, and at the present time I am not financially able to move.  But unless you have been subjected to the neighbors from hell I don’t think you can possibly understand.  I don’t know where they came from but I really wish they would go back. 

Mary M. Thomas