What looks like an abandoned house in your neighborhood with poor lighting, boarded up windows and doors, and overgrown bushes, might just be the biggest crack or drug house in your neighborhood community. These vacant or condemned homes used for criminal activity are all over the United States. But beware, police departments and neighborhoods across the nation are digging in their heels for crack and houses that sell it. Are you ready to take the initiative? Crack is made with enhanced cocaine and is sold in rock form. Crack rocks are crystallized during the cooking process and are yellow and tasteless. The drug produces an intense and almost immediate high. Smoking crack allows doses of cocaine to reach the brain within seconds, and the effects begin within minutes. Leading us to experience a combination of feeling abnormally strong, poor impulse control, and delusions. The American view of crack is identified with poor blacks and Hispanics. Crack houses, crack dealers, crack whores, and crack babies sum up everything a white person fears about the “ghetto lifestyle,” along with the media and the government. Shamelessly manipulate and amplify the racist connection between blacks and crack. Hundreds of crack users die every year, but not all fit the stereotypical profile. The truth is that today in your middle-class neighborhood, sweet, innocent teenagers Susie and Bobby might be out on the weekends smoking crack with their friends as a matter of course. As well as drinking alcohol and smoking weed. The crimes that accompany crack dealers, users and other drug users are horrendous. Murders, rapes, abuse, assaults, driving accidents and robberies are just a few examples associated with crack and any other drug. Owners of drug houses or dealers are often victims of personal robberies and cannot report it to the police due to the illegal activity in which they are involved. Who wants to wake up with a gun in their face and see all their "hard-earned" possessions stolen? So how do we determine if that crummy house around the corner is selling crack? Police departments across the United States are trying to reduce the number of crack houses, apartments, motel rooms and other properties involved in the illegal drug trade and promotion of crime within a neighborhood. There are many suspicions that can alert you; frequent visits at all hours, expensive cars in low-income neighborhoods, and visitors who only stay for a short period of time.