Neighborhood Bully
2007
There’s a kid who lives a block up from me named Jamel (age 19). He has been terrorizing our neighborhood for the past year. As a matter of fact, he may have been the one who broke into my house this past fall, but that hasn’t been verified as of yet.
Anyway, on yesterday evening, he tried to attack my next door neighbor’s kid (age 15). On last week, he’d already beat the boy up and slashed his grandmother’s tires on her SUV, so she’d filed charges against him. And because she filed charges, he decided to come back this week for more retaliation.
So Jamel walked down our street while the neighbor’s kid was outside, and proceeded to beat him up once more. But this time the neighbor’s kid had backup. One of his friends was there waiting for Jamel. And when Jamel saw that he was outnumbered, he pulled out a knife.
The neighbor’s kid and his friend backed down when the knife was drawn. Jamel then proceeded to kick in the doors of the rental car of the neighbor’s kid’s grandmother. Remember, he’d already slashed the tires on her SUV, which is why she was driving a rental to begin with.
Another neighbor saw everything take place and he called the police, while trying to chase after Jamel. The police came in like 6 minutes. Guess they were already in the area, because normally they take like 45 minutes to get to my neighborhood when in essence, their precinct is only 10 minutes away. You do the math.
Anyway, the police knocked on my door to ask me if I knew Jamel’s last name and where he stayed. I gave the officer the information on Jamel, and then other neighbors started exiting their homes to give the officer a list of complaints regarding, who else……Jamel.
Seems like this wasn’t his first time slashing tires. He’d slashed another neighbor’s tires before, had attempted to break into another neighbor’s home, had stolen his own mother’s car, had thrown a rock through the window of a neighbor’s home because her daughter refused to date him, etc.
I knew Jamel was trouble, but I had no idea to what extent. But what alarmed me was the fact that out of all of the times he’d done something malicious in our neighborhood, this was the first time that anyone had filed charges against him.
What’s the use of having neighborhood meetings and Neighborhood Watch Associations if you’re not going to speak up? I was sooooo disappointed in my neighbors. And many of them are educators. They are the first ones to speak out at their perspective schools when a child is fuckin’ up, but won’t do shit in their own neighborhood. Ooooooh, I cannot begin to explain to you just how heated I am right now! 
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