Have Gun-Related Homicides, Other Serious Crimes Decreased Dramatically in the …
Have gun-related homicides, other serious crimes decreased dramatically in the …
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It's not certain who owns firearms or how responsible they are. Also, some people would chalk up a decrease in firearm related homicides and crimes to better policing or to a decline in the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s, or to other … Read more on PolitiFact
You would never suspect my history of being sexually abused. This is my story
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WMDT Crack Cocaine.mp4
WMDT Crack Cocaine.mp4 – WMDT TV Salisbury Maryland. 1989. Crack Cocaine Epidemic on the Eastern Shore.
Make Them Eat Cake
Make Them Eat Cake
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The country's national statistics agency estimates that Mexicans drink 43 gallons per capita annually, giving the country the world's highest rate of soda consumption. The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, a Minnesota-based think tank, has … Read more on Foreign Policy (blog)
Homewood residents rally to rebuild their community
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Racial unrest in the 1960s and a crack cocaine epidemic in the late 1980s and early 1990s eroded Homewood. Businesses and … From nine homicides in 2008, Homewood experienced three in each of the past two years, statistics show. Better with time. Read more on WPXI Pittsburgh
DATELINE: The C.I.A. and the Crack Epidemic
DATELINE: the C.I.A. and the crack epidemic – an old DATELINE piece about Crack and the CIA…
Decades Later, Drugs Didn't Hold 'Crack Babies' Back
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Decades Later, Drugs Didn't Hold 'Crack Babies' Back. July 31, 2013. The crack epidemic made headlines in the '80s and '90s, and doctors despaired for the children born to crack-addicted mothers. But a new study suggests that many so-called 'crack … Read more on KUHF-FM
Warren County tackling the heroin epidemic
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Two Powerful Signals of a Major Shift on Crime
Two Powerful Signals of a Major Shift on Crime
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A generation ago, amid a crack epidemic, state and federal lawmakers enacted a wave of tough-on-crime measures that resulted in an 800 percent increase in the number of prisoners in the United States, even as the population grew by only a third. The … Read more on New York Times
Sentencing, frisking reversals shake up nation's war on drugs
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Less Violent Crime Downtown? Not by Numbers From Police
Less violent crime downtown? Not by numbers from police
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The 119 violent incidents in that downtown core in July is the highest one-month total in the past five years. … Analysts cite several reasons, including the waning of the crack cocaine epidemic and longer sentences that keep more criminals off the … Read more on The Seattle Times
No verdict yet in York crackhouse murder trial
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Virginia Mom Jailed After 4-Year-Old Snorts Her Cocaine Stash
Virginia mom jailed after 4-year-old snorts her cocaine stash
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A deadbeat Virginia mom, whose 4-year-old son found and snorted her stash of cocaine, has been locked up for 12 months. Carrie Ann Billups … She took him to Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters where a urine test confirmed he'd ingested the drug. Read more on New York Daily News
'That's as Bad as It Gets'
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Sentencing for Belpre Man Postponed
Sentencing for Belpre man postponed
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An Athens County judge could choose to revoke that supervision and send Stephens to prison because he violated probation when he was arrested Feb. 2 in Belpre for trafficking in crack cocaine. If supervision is revoked, it could effect Stephens … Read more on Marietta Times
Public policy: Are we safer now?
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A Page From Eldridge Cleaver's Diary
A Page From Eldridge Cleaver's Diary
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I started out practicing on black girls in the ghetto where dark and vicious deeds appear not as aberrations or deviations from the norm, but as part of the sufficiency of the evil of a day. When I considered myself smooth enough, I crossed the tracks … Read more on The Awl
Public Safety is Job #1
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Freeway Ricky Ross Talks About His Past Drug Kingpin Status
Freeway Ricky Ross talks about his past drug kingpin status – http://www.streetgangs.com/features/071610_freeway_rick Freeway Ricky Ross was released from prison in 2009 after initially being handed a life sentence. Ros…
Changing path after addiction
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He's been clean of cocaine since he got out of prison four years ago but relapsed with heroin once about two months ago. “You figure, I'll take my chances one more time,” said Price, 51, whose addiction started during the crack cocaine epidemic of the … Read more on The News Journal