Crack Epidemic event
also: crack phenomenon, crack explosion, crack market, crack plague
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Claims (4)
Jay Matthews exposed
Crack Epidemic host_asserted
“His piece in the Times also caught the eye of the Washington Post L.A. bureau chief, Jay Matthews. He did a follow up in December of 1984. The story described rock cocaine as a marketing breakthrough that flourished this metal class drug in…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10 @ 45:47
Markham Klein exposed
Crack Epidemic host_asserted
“The original reporter, Ferrello's story, also prompted the first scientific look at the early L.A. crack market. It was done by USC sociologist Markham Klein and Cheryl Maxson in early 85. Their preliminary findings, published in a small re…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10 @ 48:14
Cheryl Maxson exposed
Crack Epidemic host_asserted
“The original reporter, Ferrello's story, also prompted the first scientific look at the early L.A. crack market. It was done by USC sociologist Markham Klein and Cheryl Maxson in early 85. Their preliminary findings, published in a small re…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10 @ 48:14
U.S. General Accounting Office exposed
Crack Epidemic documented
“Then the sociologist said the U.S. General Accounting Office in a 1989 report echoed the conclusion, quote, in the early 1980s, the gangs began selling crack cocaine without within a matter of years. The lucrative crack market changed black…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10 @ 51:58
Mentions (14)
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but it was enough to prompt an embarrassed LAPD to launch raids on several dozen rock houses shortly afterwards, with tragic results. On December 13th, a diversionary explosion, the cops set off during a raid on West 60th Street. Rock house…
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The crack phenomenon, the reporter said, fascinated him. He pressed to do more stories, but his editors at the Times were not interested, because the LA Times is in bed with the CIA, too. Farella, eventually, that's the reporter, quit the p…
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which is totally bizarre. It would be another year before the East Coast papers would begin reporting on crack. This timing coincided with the drug's belated arrival in New York City. Crack first came to the attention in the New York field …
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Arizona, Virginia, and Maryland. The GAO report noted that Washington, D.C. crack ring in 1989 was distributing 440 pounds of cocaine every week, which illustrates the nationwide impact of the Los Angeles crack explosion. Much of the cocain…
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One of its main attractions was that it would provide law enforcement community a wealth of information on the inner workings of the crack market. Though the crack epidemic had been raging in South Central for three years by then, drug agen…
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But no one from the DEA on down had been able to figure out where it was coming from. Well, they had figured it out. They just weren't telling anybody because they were in on it. Many narcotic detectives assume that the normal rules of the …
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What looked to be an independent street cottage industry was actually the bottom rung of a carefully managed organization. That came as a revelation. Analyzing the information provided by the Torres brothers, the majors reached some frighte…
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The majors now had the names and addresses of everyone at the top of the distribution chain, from the Colombian importers to the Nicaraguan middlemen to the black wholesalers who controlled South Central Market and everything that went with…
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The crack dealers went to prison while the men who actually set it up walked away whistling. I laid out the series in just those terms, beginning in the early 1980s with the critical role played by the Nicaraguan quote-unquote freedom fight…
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focused on the relationship between the Contras and the crack king. It mentioned the CIA's role in passing, noting that some of the money had gone to a CIA-ran army and that there were federal law enforcement reports suggesting the CIA knew…
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The more Gary Webb learned about the agency, the more certain he had became that it was, in fact, behind all of it. That the Contra's cocaine ended up being turned into crack was a horrible accident of history, I believe, not someone's evil…
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The Contras just happened to pick the worst possible time to begin peddling cheap cocaine in Black neighborhoods. The fact that a government-connected drug ring was dumping tons of cocaine into Black neighborhoods in Los Angeles and to a le…
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They need to go through and pull out all of the information about the CIA and the Contras and put it in the first day. The reason it's got a feature lead is because the series is a feature, I argued. It's about the three men who started the…
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cocaine cartels in the black neighborhoods in Los Angeles, a city now known as the crack capital of the world. The cocaine it brought into the U.S. fueled the crack explosion in urban America and the simultaneous rise to power of murderous …