I’ve been living in Leyton for 3.5 years now and I’ve seen waves of crack-tivity arrive, leave again through a concerted effort from the Met and council, and now seems back with a vengeance.
There was a brief moment (probably before and just after the local elections now I think of it) where the council really seemed to work well on driving the crime rate down around the high road and making it feel like a safe place to live. It feels like that effort has all been reversed now. With the massive stabbing crime scene blocking the high road in half now, surely there has to be some correlation there. I’ve seen multiple young men getting arrested recently being searched for drugs. They need to be provided better opportunities earlier in life and we need to be left the fuck alone.
As a community we need to start reporting every drug sale we see on the streets to the police, report the rubbish and littering to the council, report that fucking burnt out flat across from coronation gardens too. Leyton could be one of the greatest places to live if we put some effort into making it nice.
I love the people here, the businesses and corner shop owners. They deserve to be able to have a nice place to have their family corner shops, not getting closed for like 24 hours because of a police cordon.