Residents in a South Side neighborhood say they no longer feel safe at home. Concerns are growing due to fights and drug use by a growing homeless population in their area.
One woman said she walked out to find a fight between three men feet from her home near Southwest Military and Pleasanton Road.
The women recording yelled for them to stop and that she was calling the cops, but her attempts to stop the fight didn’t work. According to the two, the fight was a breaking point after dealing with people using drugs blatantly in front of their houses. Now, they are arming themselves to get a sense of security back.
“People walking in the ditch that you don’t know, you don’t know what’s going to happen… it’s just really hard,” said the daughter
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