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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 don't 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 over there, man. the mayor knocks the project down. guys nearing thousands of dollars. relocate to...

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 that's 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 he's doing. he's probably on his 500th step. yeah, he paces. wear out a piece of the grass up there. >> each time that r...

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 down block. >> or handing out business cards. >> that too. >> we got this guy was handing out business ...

>> 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 don't have -- there's heroin and a scale, it's mine. so anything else you find, i forgot about it or -- >> you have anything else on you. >> you? can pat me down too. i don't have anything on me, man. nothing. >> okay, we're going to tear the house up. >> for what? i just told you there ain't nothing in there. >> evanston police have been waiting to tag this target, an alleged heroin dealer for a long time, but they couldn't do it by themselves. not in a criminal com...

Three blocks in, about the drug dealing. heroin, crack and all that. >> literally two blocks. >> yeah. it's right there. >> evanston's 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 don't know how to cut it or the potency of it, they put it on the street. these kids are naive. human gunea pigs. that's what is frustrating. s...