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Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

"There's the crack problem!There they are! There they are!" What CBS News called Crack...

"There's the crack problem!
There they are! There they are!" What CBS News called Crack Street clearly stretches into cities and towns
across the nation

Full Transcript

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"There's the crack problem! There they are! There they are!"
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What CBS News called Crack Street
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clearly stretches into cities and towns across the nation.
Duration
10 seconds
Views
44
Timestamp in Movie
00:51:18
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.
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.
And so that played a large role in this notion of "crack babies." - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:08
And so that played a large role in this notion of "crac...
One hundred thousand crack babies are being born each year. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
One hundred thousand crack babies are being born each year.
A potential horror story as these children reach school age. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
A potential horror story as these children reach school age.
In a few short years, these children may comprise as many as 60 % of students - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:08
In a few short years, these children may comprise as many as...