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Police officer to meet me at a vacant house. >> who are you calling right then? >> police dispatch. >> okay. >> my contact, who was supposed to be tagging along, he was just kind of driving around in the part of town we were going to go to, and then they just found three burglary suspects. it happens every time. >> wow. >> yeah, yeah. >> just another day in stockton? >> that's it. >> john's job boils down to stopping crimes before they start, boarding up vacant homes, and protecting neighborhoods against urban blight. but in a town with thousands of vacant housing units and only 12 enforcement...

This, all the transients, the teenagers know it is an empty house. when we see these blankets and sheets up, it is a pretty good sign somebody is living in there. i bet on it. >> so a lot of times neighbors call you and notify you? >> right. the transients live inside, and the property owners know best, they know who is supposed to be here and if the house is supposed to be empty. >> not our guy? >> oh, it is him. >> come out with your hands up. i have a dog, he will bite you. come out with your hands up. >> smells terrible in here. places are really easy to get into. they just squat here, do ...

>> how would this victim have been chosen? where did he come from? >> they will find transients, mainly, because you can't miss what they don't know is there. other people that they would have to actually i suppose track. they will take their time to assure that it looks like a runaway or perhaps the way that they do sacrifice them, they might leave them as a suicide victim. just from the methods i've heard from murderers they house back in this area where i dwell, they have told me things that i could never believed. i imagine the people that worship the dark gods nowadays probably perform th...

Mainly, because you can't miss what they don't know is there. other people that they would have to actually i suppose track. they will take their time to assure that it looks like a runaway or perhaps the way that they do sacrifice them, they might leave them as a suicide victim. just from the methods i've heard from murderers they house back in this area where i dwell, they have told me things that i could never believe. i imagine the people that worship the dark gods nowadays probably perform the same type of disposal of the person as the common serial killer might nowadays. >> we asked expe...

This is my best friend actually i came to the streets to live my own life where i don't have anybody telling me what to do. i'm my own person. >> those kids are a bunch of -- >> despite their differences, street families and transients have one thing in common -- drugs. >> i would say almost 100% of the kids are using drugs, and, in fact, we're seeing more injection drug use than we ever have. >> of the cities that track heroin deaths, portland had the highest per capita rate in 1999. >> i was going to quit here but you get so bored in this town, there's nothing to do. it's the same -- over an...