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Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

If I had my way, I would take all the drug pushers,take Alcatraz, and send them there for...

If I had my way, I would take all the drug pushers,
take Alcatraz, and send them there for life
without the privilege of any visitors

Full Transcript

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If I had my way,
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I would take all the drug pushers, take Alcatraz,
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and send them there for life without the privilege of any visitors.
Duration
11 seconds
Views
25
Timestamp in Movie
01:02:42
Uploaded
May 25, 2025
Genres
documentary, crime, history
Production
Firelight Films

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Movie Summary

In the early 1980s, the crack epidemic tore through America’s inner cities like a tsunami, ravaging all in its wake.
It's hard, generally, for the public to appreciate - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:14
It's hard, generally, for the public to appreciate
In Washington, it might take years. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:04
In Washington, it might take years.
So, in that window, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:23
So, in that window,
It was the most unjust federal law ever written. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
It was the most unjust federal law ever written.
It has a ratio of powder cocaine... - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
It has a ratio of powder cocaine...
100 grams gets you a certain sentence, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:06
100 grams gets you a certain sentence,
If you've seen a sugar packet in the restaurant, that's one gram. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
If you've seen a sugar packet in the restaurant, that&#...
Five of those tiny amounts of crack would get you a minimum of five years, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:13
Five of those tiny amounts of crack would get you a minimum ...
Five grams of crack, 500 grams of powder cocaine... - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:06
Five grams of crack, 500 grams of powder cocaine...
Many people thought, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:14
Many people thought,
This was a feature of the haste with which we wrote this. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
This was a feature of the haste with which we wrote this.
So fast we're not even thinking straight about what we're trying to accomplish. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:06
So fast we're not even thinking straight about what we&...
It was screw-up on top of screw-up on top of screw-up. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:04
It was screw-up on top of screw-up on top of screw-up.
That's... 1988, they extended that law - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:09
That's... 1988, they extended that law
The decision in the 1988 legislation - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:22
The decision in the 1988 legislation
The thinking at the time was that... - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
The thinking at the time was that...
Crack... was being used... - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
Crack... was being used...
More openly in the Black community, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:12
More openly in the Black community,
The whole idea, if you could concentrate on where the most damage to society was... - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:08
The whole idea, if you could concentrate on where the most d...
And it was overkill. Clearly, it was overkill. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:04
And it was overkill. Clearly, it was overkill.