That didn't stop police. "They come in here so angry," Luo said, with the aid of an interpreter, of officers who slapped Grace House with violation notices 14 times last winter alone. "They make all the customers leave" without food. "I say, 'I'm not the bad guy! We are a service to the neighborhood! Why don't you help the victims, the people who are being robbed?' The officer says, 'My job is to write tickets. I don't care if you go to court. I'll keep coming till you close.' I got so angry! I can do nothing." She wept.