Ducker Road Community Marches Against Drugs

“A crisis unattended will become a crisis out of control.”


These are the words of Cookie Mills, leader and founder of the DRCIC, as he addressed rally participants before the march. Four years ago, Mills called for a community meeting on Ducker Road to voice his concerns that the neighborhood where he had lived all his life was no longer safe.


“When I was a kid,” Mills said, “I used to roll tires down Ducker Road and play all day long. Then I looked up years later and there were no kids playing outside. It was because drug dealers had taken over. I was tired of complaining and decided to do something about it.”


After twenty six people surprised him by showing up for the first meeting, Mills knew he wasn’t alone; together they formed the DRCIC, with a mission to shut down the Ducker Road drug houses and make the neighborhood safe again for the children in the community. Four years later they have effectively shut down five houses operating in the open-air drug market, all within two-tenths of a mile from the house where Mills grew up.

Source: The Urban News

Commentary

These people are fighting against the scourge of drug dealing and the harm it causes to their community...destroying lives and taking the future potential achievements away from generations of people. I salute these people, and the courageous actions taken against an absolute evil in their community. I wish that all communities were as brave and resolute.