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Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

We didn't have money, so a lot of times,we were home ourselves, the kids

We didn't have money, so a lot of times,
we were home ourselves, the kids

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We didn't have money,
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so a lot of times, we were home ourselves, the kids.
Duration
5 seconds
Views
29
Timestamp in Movie
00:07:24
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.
Or we'd go to the Safeway to earn money by carrying people's groceries home. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
Or we'd go to the Safeway to earn money by carrying peo...
And sometimes we would walk with someone, carrying their groceries home, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:07
And sometimes we would walk with someone, carrying their gro...
Sometimes I had to wear my sister's jeans, hand-me-down jeans. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:06
Sometimes I had to wear my sister's jeans, hand-me-down...
You know, it's this classic picture of me in the fifth grade. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:04
You know, it's this classic picture of me in the fifth ...
I'm sitting Indian-style in the front with all the boys. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
I'm sitting Indian-style in the front with all the boys...
Everyone's hands is on their laps, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:06
Everyone's hands is on their laps,
I don't think we really understand the trauma of poverty. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
I don't think we really understand the trauma of povert...
And I think any way, any thing, any method we can employ - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:10
And I think any way, any thing, any method we can employ
Between 1982 and 1984, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:08
Between 1982 and 1984,
Agents know the cocaine was shipped to Philadelphia, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
Agents know the cocaine was shipped to Philadelphia,
There is more cocaine available today than almost any time in our history. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
There is more cocaine available today than almost any time i...
We get 63 tons of cocaine coming into the US. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
We get 63 tons of cocaine coming into the US.
The consequence of this massive insurgence of cocaine - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:07
The consequence of this massive insurgence of cocaine
Despite our best efforts, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:10
Despite our best efforts,
One Cuban cigar couldn't make it into the United States. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
One Cuban cigar couldn't make it into the United States...
But you can't stop these tons of cocaine from coming in? - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
But you can't stop these tons of cocaine from coming in...
It was definitely bigger than just the streets. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:04
It was definitely bigger than just the streets.
And tonight's special segment looks at the invasion of drugs across the border. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
And tonight's special segment looks at the invasion of ...
And the United States has used very few resources to fight back. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
And the United States has used very few resources to fight b...
It was coming vis-à-vis Central America, vis-à-vis the Bahamas, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:15
It was coming vis-à-vis Central America, vis-à-vis the Baham...