in the late sixty's baltimore had intercedes like bethlehem steel huge ship building and a very active port neill franklin is a retired police major who spent thirty four years in law enforcement he's seen the decay firsthand late sixties early seventies mainly started leaving baltimore industry started leaving going overseas were ever it ended up just wasn't here in baltimore anymore but it was also around that time that richard nixon decided that he was going to start a war. against public enemy number one drugs but it was president ronald reagan who turned that rhetorical war into a literal one you have to show they do have a criminal problem so how do you do that rest at a time when drug crime was actually on the decline not on the rise we went crazy arresting people for crack cocaine because of this. so-called epidemic that we were at incarceration rates began to just saw off the charts and we just put tons of black people. from our inner city. unguardedly no. more arrests meant more federal money. it's a system that still exists today in the form of federal stimulus and the u.s.

in the late sixty's baltimore had intercedes like bethlehem steel huge ship building and a very active war neill franklin is a retired police major who spent thirty four years in law enforcement he's seen the decay firsthand late sixties early seventies mainly started leaving baltimore industry started leaving going overseas were ever it ended up just wasn't here in baltimore anymore but it was also around that time that richard nixon decided that he was going to start a war. against public enemy number one drugs but it was president ronald reagan who turned that rhetorical war into a literal one you have to show they do have a criminal problem so how do you do that through arrest at a time when drug crime was actually on the decline not on the rise we went crazy arresting people for crack cocaine because of this. so-called epidemic that we were at incarceration rates began to just saw off the charts and we just put tons of black people. from our inner city. unguardedly no. more arrests meant more federal money. it's a system that still exists today in the form of federal stimulus and

in the late sixty's baltimore had intercedes like bethlehem steel huge ship building and a very active war neill franklin is a retired police major who spent thirty four years in law enforcement has seen the decay firsthand late sixties early seventies mainly started leaving baltimore industry started leaving going overseas were ever it ended up just wasn't here in baltimore anymore but it was also around that time that richard nixon decided that he was going to start a war. against public enemy number one drugs but it was president ronald reagan who turned that rhetorical war into a literal one you have to show they do have a criminal problem so how do you do that rest at a time when drug crime was actually on the decline not on the rise we went crazy arresting people for crack cocaine because of this. so-called epidemic that incarceration rates began to just saw off the charts and we just put tons of black people. from our inner city. unguardedly no. more arrests meant more federal money. it's a system that still exists today in the form of federal stimulus and the u.s. department of