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13 Σεπ 2024 · Crack epidemic, the significant increase in the use of crack cocaine, or crack, in the United States during the early 1980s. Crack cocaine was popularized because of its affordability, its immediate euphoric effect, and its high profitability. The crack epidemic had particularly devastating effects.
31 Μαΐ 2023 · In the 1980s and 1990s, the United States grappled with a public health crisis that left a lasting impact on many of its communities: the crack cocaine epidemic. The affordability led to its rapid surge in popularity.
13 Ιουλ 2023 · Why the crack cocaine epidemic hit Black communities 'first and worst'. President George H. W. Bush holds a bag of crack cocaine as he poses for photographers in the Oval Office of the...
10 Ιουν 2020 · Editorial: The 1980s crack epidemic was a fork in the road. America chose racism and prisons over public health. Doses of crack cocaine, confiscated and being held as evidence, are seen...
6 Νοε 2023 · You do see this correlation between the decline of the crack epidemic and a decline in violent crime — murders in particular — but there’s no evidence that policing actually drove that decline. What we actually see is a ton of great research that crack was a trend just like any other.
+ese divergent responses embody the core contradiction produced by crack cocaine and the war on drugs for African American communities of Los Angeles in the 1980s. On the one hand, these locations faced an unprecedented scale in the militarization of po-licing, arrests, and incarceration, but on the other, many people—drawn especially from
The crack epidemic is long over, and violent crime has fallen for the past 30 years. Yet SWAT enforcement continues to soar as police with shields, military weapons, and battering rams burst into homes in the middle of the night just to serve a warrant.
