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>So nobody dares do anything as they have lost faith in the police and all support. >I have aspergers and have serious PTSD due to years of this abuse and need help getting the truth out there.

Here's one uncomfortable fact about our society that most people sort of feel, but don't usually express in words. Despite what people say, nobody gives a damn about others' problems. People will tell you all kinds of kind and supportive words, because it makes them feel good about themselves being so kind. Nobody will go an extra mile and risk being attacked/sued/defamed, unless the problem starts seriously affecting them. Please do yourself a favor and put together what other people said and what they have done so far, and you will find this as the most plausible model.

If you truly have Aspergers, think of this purely logically. How much time/effort have you put into getting the truth out there? What if you put the same effort towards simply moving elsewhere? Make sure you understand what neighborhoods/apartment types will have lower probability of the same problem. Also think of renting a detached house in the middle of nowhere and working remotely. It could cost comparably to a downtown condo, but you will get priceless peace and quiet.

It is sad, but there is no "getting truth out there" option. There is an option of fighting the windmills, hearing kind words from everyone, while still stuck in a lifestyle you hate. Or there's an option of being selfish, setting a goal that will help you and just you, and allocating every resource you have towards achieving this goal.

nobody gives a damn about others' problems

The world is full of other people's problems, 7.8 billion lifetimes of them.

It's not just narcissism if people are unable to confront it all at once.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassion_fatigue

I have thought this out way more over the years and trust me - the only way forward would be public humiliation from somebody that would traction and with that.

I need a reporter who will listen and be listened too.

I have 2 years worth of recordings and with that, many examples of police ineptness, abuse.... the lot and nobody takes me seriously.

EVen played audio of her dealing, threateneing...and short version, they did nothing. Also many corrupt police, shocking but you do find out the hard way and so many inept police, shocking again, well less so in todays over-woke climate and sadly nothing constructive happens.

However this whole coronavirus, well, sad when that is doing more than I could to highlight the issues and more so, makes it harder for them to get the drugs, so I'm taking solice and great comfort in their suffering currently, sad I know but if you know all I've had to endure, it's enabled me to cope more in talking about this and trying again.

Heck, even dug out police home and private numbers and lets just say, they are useless, but hey, I feel better for it. Share the stress :).

The reporters care about stories that could bring a lot of attention, and hence advertisement. It's their bread and butter and unless they do so, they will be stuck with "utterly shite art remuneration".

In a world that accepts the whole neighborhoods crawling with mentally ill homeless drug addicts (google Downtown Vancouver East Side, or San Francisco Homeless) covering this would hardly be worth the reporter's time, sorry. Seriously, imagine how an article want would look like, and try to find anything similar published recently. Then divide your search results by the estimated number of crack dens in the areas you searched, and you'll find out that your chances of winning a lottery could be higher.

You need to get the hell out of there. It can't be good for your mental health

Tried, even have psychiatric report stating as much and yet those who are supposed to help have failed me. Tried everything and nothing.

But it's not just me, I have some good neibours who are less able to defend themselves and even if I moved, somebod else would suffer, let alone my good neibours and if I move, they would get worse downstairs.

Only way is to see justice done and then move, though believe me I've tried, been messed around, and I'd articulate the horrors and failings but only so much can empart at a time as it causes me great stress reliving it.

I'm already a lost cause, I just need to make sure others don't suffer, that's the only thing that keeps me alive.

Dude just move.

I can't, tried believe me, sorry would expand upon the manitia but it just gets too much and now a shaking wreck and have to lay down as I have hypertension and sorry. I'll try and be back soon to reply and expand but it's just so painful and it's killing me. I'm sorry.

So let's sum it up - its killing you, but you don't want to/can't leave because its killing others too. At the end, you will help nobody, the least yourself, and everybody will just suffer.

Try pure logic on this problem, which doesn't seem like your current approach. Pure logic with result being improvement of your wellbeing, so you can help others. If you simply can't get those people out, then stop dreaming about getting them out, fruitlessly; solution is in some other action.

If your country is in proper lockdown/quarantine, suck it up and focus on something positive till things ease a bit. I know, easy to say, but working solutions aren't magically easy.

“Pure logic”? Is this a joke?

OK I suggested an actionable approach for a properly desperate person, what kind of advice do you have for him apart from downvoting me?

I've tried, please read other reply for details. I've focused on positive things but hard to escape reality when you have noisy neibours who live a vampire lifestyle and a flat with the acoustics that I can hear a lightswitch downstairs turned on or off, let alone a raving crackhead.

I set up a audio surveillance system with contact mics I built, though took year to afford the parts and then not ideal, but budget so tight I have to buy reduced food items to scrape by. Yet even with that, and case of playing blatant issues to housing and police - they do nothing, hence only way I will get the gravatas this needed is to go public and for that I need help as I'm unable to do this without breaking down and reliving all the bad moments - bad side effect of a good memory and if anything, makes it worse.

But focusing only works so far - don't change anything and with everything else health wise, I don't have many good days and when I do, only able to do short bursts before fatigue kicks in or nerve damage pain, let alone the PTSD which can be triggered so easily that i'm totally unable to move forward and all attempts to do that have sadly been detrimental that they have only compounded the issue further.

That's not possible for many people. Moving is expensive.

The parent commenter doesn't say it, but it seems strongly implied that they live in public housing. In most jurisdictions, residents don't have the option of moving to another unit without approval. In principle no one is stopping them from moving into market-rate private housing, but unless they happen to have the income to cover the differential in housing costs, it's not actually an option.

That is so, was working, company sent me other side of the world, messed up expenses and cruz was they failed to pay me and my rent and everything bounced whilst I was stuck in another TZ, boss epicly shafted me and in short, had breakdown and lost everything.

Options to move are swap which entails swapping with somebody else who wants to move and the whole process fraught with hassel and could end up swapping with somebody doing same thing.

Local council have an unofficial policey of allocating some flats to certaint types and with that, almost case of each social housing block has a designated junkie. It's a liberal council and has been for decades and well, yeah.

Housing association utterly terrible and if you look up Metropolitian Housing Association you will see that this is a common issue with many residents of their and all they care about is...well, if you look at their twitter feed you will see what they are like, google review has them at 1* and many instances of comparable people in same situations.

Council, utter joke and don't get me started on how bad they are in this situation.

Support useless and anybody who has been good has been powerless to help and those who can help been beyond useless, again it is a joke.

I have some serious health issues as well and the crux is, I'm unable to progress anything forward and those who were supposed to help, been beyond useless and again, trust me, it's bad.

I wished I could articulate everything in detail so people would grasp how bad it is and all that I have tried, but it would be a inch long book and take me so long to write it, well, I'm not going to live that long anyhow. AS said, trying to deal with this kicks of PTSD from all past experiences and in short, I need help and never gotten the support I needed, plenty of lip service and the like and false promises and yet, here I still am and nothing changed.

Work wise, I burned out so many times over the decades, in many situations had my good nature abused and things like burning 80+ hours a week for no overtime only to be shafted and the like very common.

No, just get out if you can. Put every bit of energy you have left to that goal.

Tried failed, tried failed.....it's case of I try, I get failed and withdraw to recover, rinse repeat that life is just not worth it, along with health etc the only thing keeping me going is to see justice once and for all.

Heck I even wrote to my government offering to be a human lab rat in the aid of finding solution to coronavirus, least that would be a honourable death, that desperate.

> I'm now at stage that I need a good investigative reporter as I have recordings and other proofs...

No, you don't. Nobody cares about crackheads. Furthermore, nobody cares about your problems, either. Not the police, not the welfare services, not the media, not even the people on HN. Nobody is going to call to get the details on this story as it unfolds.

You need to get out. Things may look hopeless. Perhaps they are, perhaps there's no way out. On the other hand, you almost certainly developed some form of learned helplessness, which is an actual delusion.

You picked a bad time to get out. Nobody is hiring. You don't have the right skills. You don't know how to talk to people.

Okay, so you're not going to get out. Make the best of it. Stop thinking about these people. They own your thoughts. They own you. They're probably not even aware of it. You just gave yourself away for nothing, to people who don't care. What a waste.

Take ownership of yourself. Good Luck.

Sadly the only avenue would be public exposure of this and that alas would bury under current events. Also the process could very well kill me anyway due to stress/heart. But that's happening anyhow, I'm close to the edge and would rather go out knowing justice lives than not.

Moving - see other responses, covered that.

Only way forward would be a reporter who wants a big story or availing illegal avenues of which I have over the years, formulated many, including the perfect murder.

But it's not as easy as it sounds and sadly hard to articulate all the aspects and details.

But I will see the whole lots of those who failed me and these scum justiced, one way or another. It's my only way forward as even if could move, I'd have no closure and the horrors would live on, I need closure or I'm stuck living this wherever I went and sadly there is not option for that - see other reply's.

Hmm, lets see.

You could go the opposite way. Advertise for them everywhere. Put up signs for cheap stuff in other turfs. Let the free market work.

Now is the problem the people below or where you live? Getting rid of thek might bring someone worse. Sounds like you have grown out of the area.

Putting up signs is not so simple with CCTV everywhere.

Was thinking in bathrooms vs polls.. less large signs but more scratching something out with a key. In places where people use the bathroom to shootup (targeted advertising works better with a better roi)

Makeup of housing in the UK somewhat different to your vision alas.

Don't get me wrong, I've done things and had some success.

Was entire ground floor of the 6 flats all junkies, one I managed to re-educate, another I socially engineered away.

2 corrupt coppers removed.

4 Gangs removed

Numerous habitual junkies - removed from area.

2 gangs removed from area via blackmail.

Probably missing few.

But I've not been idle and had some positive results, albeit using craft tricks, so bit grey legally but morally just.

However the real issue does seem to be a police informer, did have some limited success last year, managed to socially engineer two gangs and with that, they ended up taking each other out and also saw the downstairs issue beaten up. That managed to give me a break but they always get back to the same old same and with that, the only way is to out them and the police handler for the shite they have caused.

But for closure - I need them and the police handler publicly outed in a way that they can't cover and with that, need publicity to deal with them and in a way that sends a message to the police so they don't do it again.

So yeah, messy, but need to end-game this for my own health and see it thru for closure and for my health overall.

Hence, best solution would be a reporter I can trust and is respectable to traction this. That simple.

Not an issue as I know all the CCTV and how to locate them easily enough as well as able to take them out. However there are other junkies in area and they all work together with the CCTV controlled by them, which they use to monitor police etc and stay ahead of them. I jest you not, it's shocking.

You know what, I cna garantee if I did that, I would be the one arrested and in jail and they would get away with it, making out it was me.

For example, had issue few years back for noise, they came out attacked me, then called police and made out I attacked them. They have also made many false reports to the polcie and they quickly come out to them. Yet if I report them, even case of when they had guns and kelos in the place - they ignored me and only came out when I said I'd kill myself if they don't do anything, too which they still did nothing about them and even talking to the officers, they were aware of what they are like and yet stil did nothing and all i got was platitude. It really is most shocking.

I said I would setup a recording system that would record their activities and I one of the officers said we would love that, yet even after doing that with many recordings, none of them care and I've even played recordings to police and what did they do. Yes, told the local officers who in turn told the dealers and you can guess how that worked out.

I even have email proof of officer admitting they `accidently` put a note thru their door with my details, I kid you not and what did they do - well they said sorry and if I had a penny for every sorry I've had over the years, I'd be very rich.

It really is beyond belief and the police today in the UK and frankly not police but social workers who care more about being seen to do their job over it and any good officers been driven out the force and that's not just my opinion, it's a large proportion of many ex officers.

Look at the replies from ex-officer in this tweet: https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk/status/1243493123155689472

it's just not even the icing on the cake.

Sorry I need to step away form this now for my own health and will be back later once I stop shaking.

The dealers might be police confidents.

Yes, they kinda are, they use the police to take out competition and with that, I'm so screwed that it is beyond a joke.

Welcome to our brave new world.

Why are you reporting things under your name? You don't want to get involved.

Calling the cops and telling them they have guns and kilos won't help because how would you know (in their minds) and why would they believe someone about ownership (they start looking at you). Any offers to setup your own operation makes it seem like you have something against the couple. Now you are the suspect.

Never threaten to kill yourself to get the cops attention because it will be focused on you not on why you are threatening to kill yourself.

Why do you continue to live there for years?

Please see other comments, but I have an inability to lie, I can do white-lies but that's it, just against my morals.

I threatened as it was true and I'm that desperate and I know that if I do that at least there would be some form of inquiry and sadly, that seems to be my best hope having tried all the right things.

I have many solutions that are wrong things and illegal that I could do to solve this, but again, against my morals. I'm happy to grey the law, but not break the law.

I've tried social engineering with some success and brief respites but again, limits. I've no issue hacking any dealers phones and the like and have done in the past and passed on intel, but alas downstairs are still there.

Our current society worships victims, but unfortunately your kind of victim is not numerous enough to get mainstream attention.

Interestingly enough, our society worships victims that either could not be helped, or that would take a lower-than-median place in the social ladder after the help arrived. It's like people feel better when they hear about someone who's life is more miserable than theirs.

Asperger dude who could become extremely productive and wealthy once he assigns the right priorities to sleep, noise reduction, and seeing through other people's bullshit, doesn't fit this pattern at all.

I had a good career, done some amazing things, but utterly shite art remuneration and got taken advantage of by many employers and mate-crime, also not a greedy person, and been told I'm too good natured for my own good, too intelligent for my own good and that's by many professionals and smart people, sadly that's all they could do beyond say that I've done all the right things and been failed.

SLeep the issue, they live vampire hours and terrible flat for noise and with that, it's a slow death.

When I accepted this place I asked: 1) I need a silent area at night 2) No heroin users as had issue in past

I was lied to and suffered ever since, apparently downstairs is the biggest known crackhead heroin user in the area and been instrumental in bringing heroin into the area and with that, it's been downhill ever since at a time I didn't need it and now I'm mid 50's, burned out so many times, physical and mental health issues, I'm spent and never going to get back to full time work and even then. I have no stability in routine due to antisocial impacts that still happen to this day and....see other comments.

People don't worship victims, they use victims as means to some end, like attaining political power or social capital. By extension, victims must stay victims to keep fulfilling that purpose.

You know what, you're kinda right as that would explain so much, more victims they have, bigger budgets, it's just....so so wrong.

The ones that use victims use them by making others worship those victims. I'm not saying this is good or bad, it's just an easily observable fact.