I tried to do that with the cocaine club next door to me, open from 11PM to 9AM.

Everyone simply swore they'd closed it years ago. When I told them that they were open every night, they promised to send a squad car to check. Indeed, police cars were there three nights a week to break up fights, but...

Once after a lot of screaming and flashing lights I came out in my bathrobe at 5AM and asked the cops there why they couldn't close the place down. They couldn't even look me in the eye...

As a white man, I felt no fear in trying this. I felt it would fail, I knew my neighbors had tried, but I wanted to see for myself.