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Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

You know, I remember my leg00 in the morning, and woken up to get dressedto be shipped off...

You know, I remember my leg
being pulled on about 3:00 in the morning, and woken up to get dressed
to be shipped off to prison

Full Transcript

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You know, I remember my leg being pulled on about 3:00 in the morning,
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and woken up to get dressed to be shipped off to prison.
Duration
10 seconds
Views
27
Timestamp in Movie
01:14:17
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.
Me and about 70 other women, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:07
Me and about 70 other women,
And then chained together in this long chain and put on a bus. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
And then chained together in this long chain and put on a bu...
And driven off to this place that I've never been before. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:04
And driven off to this place that I've never been befor...
And as I'm taking this trip, I'm thinking about my ancestors. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
And as I'm taking this trip, I'm thinking about my...
Ladies and gentlemen, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:09
Ladies and gentlemen,
Bush played an important role in laying the groundwork, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:07
Bush played an important role in laying the groundwork,
We will have the means by which we can say punishment will be more certain. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
We will have the means by which we can say punishment will b...
We will put 100,000 police officers on the street, a 20 % increase. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:06
We will put 100,000 police officers on the street, a 20 % in...
Tens of millions of dollars from Congress - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:08
Tens of millions of dollars from Congress
There is restructuring of policing from ordinary beat cops - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:12
There is restructuring of policing from ordinary beat cops
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...