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War on Drugs
12023-05-24T00:24:18+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49141970s Focused Researchgallery2023-09-20T21:55:16+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49*Select the content pages below for more on information on the images above included in the media gallery.
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1media/Chief_Parker_fights_for_tougher_laws_against_narcotic_peddlers_thumb.jpg2022-08-04T00:00:31+00:00Isa Lovelace9b0e63463955cb91e1285177f7061770c00ce6e81960 LAPD Chief Parker Presents on Drug Cases1Chief Parker is shown using an illustrated chart explaining the four major drug cases investigated by his department in 1959. The chart was used in his fight for tougher laws against narcotics peddlers. Photo was taken on Friday, April 1, 1960.media/Chief_Parker_fights_for_tougher_laws_against_narcotic_peddlers.jpgplain2022-08-04T00:00:31+00:001960#chief parker, #LAPD, #Police violenceIsa Lovelace9b0e63463955cb91e1285177f7061770c00ce6e8
1media/Screen Shot 2023-03-21 at 1.46.50 PM_thumb.png2023-03-21T21:20:48+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491971- Nixon's War on Drugs1President Richard Nixon explains aspects of the special message sent to Congress asking for an extra $155 millions for a new program to combat the use of drugs, on June 17, 1971. Harvey Georgesmedia/Screen Shot 2023-03-21 at 1.46.50 PM.pngplain2023-03-21T21:20:48+00:001971Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2023-03-21 at 2.22.13 PM_thumb.png2023-03-21T21:23:48+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491971 Nixon's War on Drugs1American GIs who are addicted to heroin are pictured at the U.S. Army amnesty center at Long Binh in Vietnam, Aug. 1971. Nixon knew that many people, especially southern whites, were afraid of the social progress that the country was making at the time. He also knew that drug use and crime were going up and that tapping into the fears and anxieties, while tying them to race, may have been just the strategy he needed to win. “The wave of crime is not going to be the wave of the future in the United States of America,” Nixon said in 1968 as he accepted the Republican nomination, becoming the law and order candidatemedia/Screen Shot 2023-03-21 at 2.22.13 PM.pngplain2023-03-21T21:23:48+00:001971Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
1media/Screen Shot 2023-03-21 at 2.24.32 PM_thumb.png2023-03-21T21:25:43+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491971 Nixon's War on Drugs1fter President Richard Nixon declared a “war on drugs” in 1971, the number of people incarcerated in American jails and prisons escalated from 300,000 to 2.3 million. Half of those in federal prison are incarcerated for a drug offense, and two-thirds of those in prison for drug offenses are people of color. Disproportionate arrest, conviction, and sentencing rates for drug offenses have devastated communities of color in America. The Nixon Administration’s strategy of using drugs to “vilify [African Americans] night after night on the evening news” fostered a politics of fear and anger that reached frenzied heights in the 1990s. Sensationalist media accounts of “soaring” crime rates in the 1980s and early 1990s combined with extraordinary resentment about rehabilitation programs within prisons to create a political environment in which every elected official sought to be “tough on crime.” Decrying that “gangs and drugs have taken over our streets and undermined our schools,” President Bill Clinton in 1994 signed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, allotting $12.5 billion to states to increase incarcerationmedia/Screen Shot 2023-03-21 at 2.24.32 PM.pngplain2023-03-21T21:25:43+00:001971Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49