The thing is, it’s not the drug dealing that’s antisocial – it’s the **** they attract to your street.
We had a dealer a few doors down (Hebden Bridge – whattya gonna do?). He was attracting all of the local pond life to our street at night and into the early hours. We’d get people banging on our door (“sorry mate wrong house”) jumping up and down on the cars, and lots of noise.
Anyway the residents went to the next NPT meeting and suddenly “tackling antisocial behaviour in X Street” became a priority. In short, the police booted the guy’s front door in one Saturday morning, led him away in cuffs, and removed all his cannabis plants.
If he’d been a bit more subtle about it, and told his friends and customers to behave themselves with the neighbours, then no-one would have cared. But he didn’t. So we did.
And very, very fair play to the police for acting on local concerns.