My Field Home

While walking in my field site, I found it strange that the streets were fairly empty. It was around 12pm and not too hot, but as I continued walking I noticed two police officers surveilling the area. As I kept walking to different blocks I noticed the same two police officers just driving slowly. The first officer was driving an SUV cop car and the second officer was driving a Ford Crown Victoria cop car. To me this did not seem as something important at first because it was my first time ever at this site, but as I continued to see dilapidated housing, housing with bars on the windows and iron gates surrounding the premises, abandoned houses or buildings, liquor/market stores primarily on every corner of the block, I realized that my site might be considered a low-income neighborhood. …show more content…
The streets were covered with potholes, and also broken glass and beer cans. In addition to the littering, the street sidewalks were covered with graffiti while the walls were covered with Chicano canvases. This specific area of Sampson and National was surrounded by automotive places; tire shops, muffler shops, mechanic shops, etc... If you were to look up at the sky a plethora of billboards could be seen promoting smart investing, or car insurance. Furthermore, some housing contained singing roosters and the alley ways were covered with old bed mattresses and couches. As I continued walking down Sampson street I noticed a Coastal Marine Recruitment office in the middle of this neighborhood. This was fascinating to me because I started wondering first of all why is this facility here and second is this facility aimed to target low-income