What looks like an abandoned house in your neighborhood with poor lighting, boarded up windows and doors, and overgrown bushes, might just be the biggest house of crack or drugs in your community. These vacant or condemned homes used for criminal activity are found all over the United States. But be careful, police departments and neighborhoods across the country are cracking down on crack and the houses that sell it. Are you ready to take initiative? Crack is made from powder cocaine and is sold in rock form. Crack rocks crystallize when cooked and are yellow and tasteless. The drug produces an intense and almost immediate effect. Smoking crack allows doses of cocaine to reach the brain within seconds and the effects begin within minutes. This causes us to experience a combination of feeling abnormally strong, poor impulse control, and delusions. The American view of crack is identified with poor blacks and Hispanics. Crack houses, crack dealers, crack whores, and crack babies sum up everything a white person fears about the “ghetto lifestyle,” along with the media and the government. Shamelessly manipulating and amplifying the racist connection between black people and crack cocaine. Hundreds of crack users die every year, but not all of them fit the stereotypical profile. The truth is that today in your middle-class neighborhood, sweet and innocent teenagers Susie and Bobby might be out on the weekends smoking crack with their friends as a regular thing. Aside from drinking alcohol and smoking weed, the crimes that accompany crack dealers, users, and other drug users are horrific. Murder, rape, abuse, assault, driving accidents, and theft are just some of the cases associated with crack cocaine and any other drug. Drug house owners or those who sell them are often victims of personal theft and cannot report it to the police because of the illegal activity they are involved in. Who wants to wake up with a gun in your face and see all your “hard-earned” possessions stolen? So how do you determine if that crummy place on the corner is selling crack? Law enforcement agencies across the United States are trying to reduce the number of crackhouses, apartments, motel rooms and other properties that traffic illegal drugs and promote crime in a neighborhood. Many suspicions can alert you; frequent visits at all hours, expensive cars in deprived neighborhoods and visitors who only stay for a short time.