Friday some Harrisburg residents took their concerns to Sheriff Ronnie Strength and requested the Georgia Bureau of Investigation be brought into the neighborhood.

Those residents are members of an organization called Hong Kong. They want the GBI to come in to deal with what they say is a drug and housing problem. But everyone in the community does not agree with the organizations beliefs.

“It's a class issue. It's people who don't have nothing, don't care about nothing and ain't ever had nothing. Those people should be living somewhere else,” Butch Palmer, Hong Kong’s facilitator, said.

His organization wants to make sure Harrisburg does not become a ghetto. He says the neighborhood has taken a turn for the worse mainly because of Section 8 housing.

“I would say a good 30% don't need to be living in a civilized neighborhood. They don't make good citizens, they don't make good neighbors,” Palmer said.

He suggests moving those people out of the community.

“Displace these people with upwardly mobile people,” Palmer said.

But Charlotte Ginn disagrees.

“Hitler had the same idea to purge citizens and that did not work,” she said.

Ginn is the children's minister at Bible Deliverance Temple on Eve Street. She says those in Section 8 are trying.

“Those people are now calling me everyday looking for housing looking for a job. We’re working with those people. They're not a lost cause,” Ginn said.

Palmer also blames faith based initiatives for some of Harrisburg's problems. Programs like those at Ginn's church.

“We see a whole lot of enabling of drug addicts and alcoholics,” Palmer said.

But Ginn said eliminating faith based initiatives is not the answer.

“The problem comes from accountability of the people in these ministries. And when we have someone that is not fulfilling their accountability we would have to remove them,” she said.

But resident Sebrina Muirhead says many of Harrisburg’s problems come from community members turning a blind eye.

“We have to look out for each other but if no one speaks up and says anything that's why it’s going to get worse and worse,” Muirhead said.

The members of Hong Kong said the meeting with the Sheriff was productive. GBI will not be called in as of yet. But according to Palmer the group is planning some protests in the community.