Combating crime in South Phoenix one house at a time
by Sybil Hoffman
azfamily.com
Posted on January 26, 2012 at 10:10 PM
Updated
today at 10:21 PM
PHOENIX — It’s the worst of the worst in one of the Valley’s toughest neighborhoods. For years, drug use and prostitution have brought down property values and made the communities extremely dangerous.
Just because the criminals overtake homes, turning them into magnets for illegal activity, it doesn’t mean the neighbors have to put up with it.
There’s never a dull moment patrolling the South Mountain Precinct. For more than a decade, Detective Lance Hunt with the Phoenix Police Department has been trying to turn around the many neighborhoods plagued with prostitution and drug use in South Phoenix.
Hunt believes at the core of the problem isn’t necessarily the criminals but the properties used for illegal activity.

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