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Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

And as I'm taking this trip,I'm thinking about my ancestors

And as I'm taking this trip,
I'm thinking about my ancestors

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And as I'm taking this trip, I'm thinking about my ancestors.
Duration
5 seconds
Views
25
Timestamp in Movie
01:14:52
Uploaded
May 25, 2025
Genres
documentary, crime, history
Production
Firelight Films

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In the early 1980s, the crack epidemic tore through America’s inner cities like a tsunami, ravaging all in its wake.
Ladies and gentlemen, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:09
Ladies and gentlemen,
Bush played an important role in laying the groundwork, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:07
Bush played an important role in laying the groundwork,
We will have the means by which we can say punishment will be more certain. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
We will have the means by which we can say punishment will b...
We will put 100,000 police officers on the street, a 20 % increase. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:06
We will put 100,000 police officers on the street, a 20 % in...
Tens of millions of dollars from Congress - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:08
Tens of millions of dollars from Congress
There is restructuring of policing from ordinary beat cops - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:12
There is restructuring of policing from ordinary beat cops
We begin to see a new level of investment - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:07
We begin to see a new level of investment
With policing and surveillance, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:07
With policing and surveillance,
The federal anti-drug budget is up to $12 billion. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:04
The federal anti-drug budget is up to $12 billion.
So, it's six times what it was when Reagan started, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
So, it's six times what it was when Reagan started,
When I sign this crime bill, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:12
When I sign this crime bill,
The 1994 crime bill supports new police officers on the streets - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:12
The 1994 crime bill supports new police officers on the stre...
There's tens of millions of dollars going into expanding the prison system. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:06
There's tens of millions of dollars going into expandin...
And that is when we really begin to see the explosion - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:06
And that is when we really begin to see the explosion
Incarceration rates take off under Clinton. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:04
Incarceration rates take off under Clinton.
About the same time, '94, people start to become concerned - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:12
About the same time, '94, people start to become concer...
But between the passage of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act in 1988 - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:16
But between the passage of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act in 1988
There is just massive outrage in the African-American community - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:10
There is just massive outrage in the African-American commun...
Much of the anger became focused on the CIA... - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
Much of the anger became focused on the CIA...
And its role in helping to create the crack crisis. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:04
And its role in helping to create the crack crisis.