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100:1 The Crack Legacy

By: Audible Originals, Christopher Johnson
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100:1 The Crack Legacy investigates the war on crack in the mid-1980s and the devastation left in its wake. Host Christopher Johnson shares the experiences of the men and women who were on the frontlines - narcotics cops, ex- dealers, artists, community activists - to help explain the rise in incarceration, hyper-aggressive policing, and police shootings of unarmed people of color that we are experiencing now.

When you add 100:1 The Crack Legacy to your library you will receive all 6 episodes, each with a runtime of approximately 40 minutes.

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Episodes
  • Ep. 1: Autopsy No. 86-999

    Ep. 1: Autopsy No. 86-999
    Oct 26 2017
    [Contains explicit content] The series begins with the deaths of two young black men. First, Freddie Gray, who died after police arrested him and threw him into the back of a police van in Baltimore. Then, Len Bias: the rising college basketball player. His cocaine overdose in 1986 helped ignite a new, more aggressive phase of the War On Drugs, one that zeroed in on crack cocaine and black communities. This episode looks at the ties between the two deaths, and how the draconian, anti-crack drug laws of the mid-80s, set policing in America on the course of lethal aggression against black Americans we’re still witnessing today.
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    23 mins
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  • Ep. 2: 100:1

    Ep. 2: 100:1
    Oct 26 2017

    [Contains explicit content] It is the mid-1980s, and America is alarmed by the dawn of crack cocaine. We go to Capitol Hill for the little-known story of behind the “tough-on-crime” era, when lawmakers played fast and loose with mandatory minimum sentencing, literally “ picking numbers out of [their] asses” according to one insider. The harsh anti-drug legislation - cobbled together in weeks - included the now notorious 100 to 1 sentencing ratio for crack vs. powder cocaine, which disproportionately affected black communities and led to mass incarceration.
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    28 mins
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  • Ep. 3: The 202

    Ep. 3: The 202
    Oct 26 2017
    [Contains explicit content] Welcome to Washington, DC - the nation’s capital. By the late 1980s, the crack cocaine trade had transformed DC into the "murder capital" of America. In this episode, Christopher Johnson takes a trip back home, to the DC area, to remember just how devastating crack cocaine was for the city. A former narcotics cop takes him across the Anacostia River, and through what was once a notorious open-air crack market. We talk to a local musician, a former homicide cop, and Christopher's big cousin Cooki, who all remember the days when DC “went sideways.”
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    24 mins
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very interesting worth a listen just give it a go to see what you think.

worth a listen

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another example of the us government being at least dangerously misguided, at most criminally amoral....george bush was not a nice man....epstein didnt commit suicide

the gop does it again!

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really interesting and enlightening, although at times so tragic.
a really great series, I would recommend to anyone

a real eye opener

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the audio needs cleaning up, really can't understand a word of the phone conversations.

apart from that, this was really good!

good... but

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glad it was free I would have been angry if I paid for it .......

victimhood the audiobook

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can't get into this one at all. you might like it though so give it a go

not for me

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Ugh, usual tale of sensationalism and woes - drugs, police brutality etc... To be fair, I only gave it a few minutes, but it just had that feel. Not what I thought when originally downloading.

Same old rubbish

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