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There is restructuring of policing from ordinary beat cops
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Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

There is restructuring of policingfrom ordinary beat cops to creating these elite, funded...

There is restructuring of policing
from ordinary beat cops to creating these elite, funded units that are given special resources
and special powers

Full Transcript

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There is restructuring of policing from ordinary beat cops
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to creating these elite, funded units
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that are given special resources and special powers.
Duration
12 seconds
Views
19
Timestamp in Movie
01:16:11
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.
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.
Whether they delivered the kilo themselves - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:08
Whether they delivered the kilo themselves
I am going to make somebody pay for what they have done - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:08
I am going to make somebody pay for what they have done
The CIA's been involved in every ugly thing that's happened - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
The CIA's been involved in every ugly thing that's...
The crack epidemic affected the poverty levels, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:06
The crack epidemic affected the poverty levels,
People's lives were ended or changed. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:04
People's lives were ended or changed.
See, there are people in major positions - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
See, there are people in major positions