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Something with the pd. this time moving higher up the food chain, taking aim at dealers who move bigger quantities of drugs. >> some of these guys dont sell from houses. they learned that police buy from the house. they get a search warrant. so now they do their sales on the street. they are mobile, they feel more secure because they are mobile and moving, they are watching. what we do is make our buy byes from them there. we adapt to them. evanston, evanston. there has been a lot of shootings...

All right, cool. >> she asked me if i wanted a jar, which is a hundred. i said no, half a jar. but police buy 15 pills because thats all they need to buy. so we will get a search warrant and hopefully get it out of her also. >> hey i was going to be in the area in a bit. i was going to see if i could roll through. >> we try to talk like they do. a lot of people that we arrest, you will know terminology that they like use. >> call me back. >> you can probably count the steps hes doing. hes probab...

Lake and a lot of section eight housing and poverty and pockets of bad areas within the good areas. >> evanston police officers, liz lynn and jimmy pillars are part of the police. they say they know the drug dealers in town and have recruited informants to help bring them down. >> we do what it takes to get good charges on them. >> there is a lot of drugs here. this is the -- >> the hub. >> yeah, the epicenter of this area. >> you will see guys posted up here as either look outs or whistling dow...

>> whatever you find belongs to me. whatever you find. >> you want us to tear the place up or are you going to tell us? >> no, i dont have -- theres heroin and a scale, its mine. so anything else you find, i forgot about it or -- >> you have anything else on you. >> you? can pat me down too. i dont have anything on me, man. nothing. >> okay, were going to tear the house up. >> for what? i just told you there aint nothing in there. >> evanston police have been waiting to tag this target, an alleg...

Three blocks in, about the drug dealing. heroin, crack and all that. >> literally two blocks. >> yeah. its right there. >> evanstons proximity to other affluent northern suburbs makes it central hub for drug sales north of chicago. many drug users are casual users experimenting with cocaine or heroin and some pay the ultimate price. fatalities in outlying areas more than doubled in two years. >> when a new strand of heroin comes into an area and they dont know how to cut it or the potency of it,...

>> different towns have different agendas. most of them are noble. but there are other ones that the last thing they want to do is acknowledge a crime problem because it might impact housing and the rest. so there is an educated guess. the public would be flabbergasted if they knew how little police departments actually talked to each other. >> but one thing is certain, as the city demolished more than 25 public housing units, the gangs moved out ward. they became a part of 100,000 residents fro...

Poverty and pockets of bad areas. within the good areas. >> evanston police officers are part of the joint operation with the sheriffs police. they say they know all the key drug dealers in town and have recruited informants to help bring them down. >> we do whatever it takes to get charges on these guys. >> there is a lot of drug activity right here. this is a hub. at the center of this area. >> you will see guys posted up here as either look outs or whistling down the block. >> or handing out ...

Nine millimeter to springfield arms. >> a lot of dealers know the games. if they talk they can luszen it or even walk. we had brothers give up brothers. their own family. this is the game. >> even as police send the target and 35 other arrestees off to jail, they are only making a minor dent in a much larger problem. evanstons gang presence has been growing and so has the murder rate. in 2010, homicides rose by 600%. >> everybody heard of evanston for northwestern university. a cultural suburb b...

Dealer who is move bigger quantities of drugs. >> some of these guys dont sell from houses. they learned police buy from the house and they get a search warrant. they do the sales on the street. they are mobile and feel more secure because they are moving and watching. we will make our buys from there. >> were adapt to them. >> anybody from evanston? 71st and what? there have been a lot of shootings over there. they knock the project down. where do you think the guys go to? they are making thous...

Cool. >> she asked me if i wanted a jar which is $100. i said a half jar. if the police buy 15 pills, wey will buy a half jar and get a search warrant. >> i was going to be up in the area and i wanted to see if i can roll through. i wanted to talk like they do. when we debrief people that we arrest, talking to them, you will know the terminology that they like to use. call me back. >> you probably count how many steps he does. he is on the 500th step. >> he paces. he will wear out a piece of the...