1.   When Glass bought his house, the area where he lives was full of crack dealers so he does not scare easily.

2.   Police say a battle for territory between crack cocaine dealers has been behind a series of recent shootings in South London.

3.   And now a man who was willing to say he loved Boston is run out of town, feeling his employers think he associates with crack dealers.

4.   And now a black man who was willing to say he loved Boston is run out of town, feeling his employers think he associates with crack dealers.

5.   Badge proudly in hand, he helped round up the crack dealers.

6.   Before that, a crack dealer he helped get arrested vowed to put a bullet in his head.

7.   A former crack dealer in the hardscrabble Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, he wore that shameful past like a badge of honor.

8.   A neighbor said in a telephone interview Thursday night that the police are called to the building several nights a week to disperse crack dealers and their customers.

9.   He brags of once having been a small-time crack dealer and of his years in the hip-hop wilderness.

10.   He is an officer in a special operations unit that fights crack dealers in the housing projects of Mobile.