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Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

It is serious.It is an epidemic and it can kill." Just some of what was saidto House and...

It is serious.
It is an epidemic and it can kill." Just some of what was said
to House and Senate committees

Full Transcript

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It is serious. It is an epidemic and it can kill."
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Just some of what was said to House and Senate committees...
Duration
7 seconds
Views
24
Timestamp in Movie
00:50:39
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.
Politicians used them to scare people. The media used them to scare people. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:04
Politicians used them to scare people. The media used them t...
The drug so powerful, it will empty the money from your pockets, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:09
The drug so powerful, it will empty the money from your pock...
If I want to show the drug problem, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:13
If I want to show the drug problem,
"There's the crack problem! There they are! There they are!" - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:10
"There's the crack problem! There they are! There ...
Los Angeles gangs have franchised crack operations - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:06
Los Angeles gangs have franchised crack operations
Towns as unlikely as Omaha, Kansas City, Denver. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:04
Towns as unlikely as Omaha, Kansas City, Denver.
Even York, Pennsylvania. Bedrock Middle America. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:04
Even York, Pennsylvania. Bedrock Middle America.
The media was generating these frenzies about crack and its impact, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:06
The media was generating these frenzies about crack and its ...
Police in Kansas City, Missouri are searching this morning - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:08
Police in Kansas City, Missouri are searching this morning
We see stereotypes about the, kind of, pathology of Black women - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:12
We see stereotypes about the, kind of, pathology of Black wo...
The crack plague is showing a new and frightening dimension, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:08
The crack plague is showing a new and frightening dimension,
Her mother was so stoned at the time of delivery, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:08
Her mother was so stoned at the time of delivery,
The whole crack baby thing was based largely on one paper published - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:13
The whole crack baby thing was based largely on one paper pu...
Ira Chasnoff suggested that there were extreme and unique harms - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:08
Ira Chasnoff suggested that there were extreme and unique ha...
His research, based on approximately 23 babies, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:09
His research, based on approximately 23 babies,
- Drug babies-- - Coke babies-- - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
- Drug babies-- - Coke babies--
There was hyperventilating reporting - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:08
There was hyperventilating reporting
And you had headlines such as, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:12
And you had headlines such as,
It's hard to really talk about this, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
It's hard to really talk about this,
Stuff like that actually paraded as real information. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
Stuff like that actually paraded as real information.