Breh on twitter is posting news clips from the 80's crack era

[Cat piss martini]

may meth and heroin get cheaper and more potent.
may they burn in the hell they made for us.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

My father came to this country from Haiti in 1980 to Brooklyn.

He almost went back to Haiti cause to him New York was by far more “third” world and my dad being a Christian thought the city was filled with demons.

my dad lived in Flatbush, Crown Heights, the 90s (East Flatbush) and East Flatbush (the 30s).

 

[UberEatsDriver]

this one is my favorite, the way he just talks is just so




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Pretty crazy cause if someone visits Washington Sqaure Park today you would never think it was a druggie park.

Tompkins park and the park in Hell Kitchen is no shock.

A methadone clinic still exist on West 57th and 10th Ave so a lot of Heron junkies roam the streets.

I got stabbed around there myself back in 2013.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

My dad was a taxi driver in NYC back then. Nobody in nyc has better or more stories than a taxi driver.

It was the most dangerous job to do and back then again partitions weren’t in cabs so a cabbie could get head knocked off instantly.








Back then If you were a cab driver it was often your cab company that protected since the cops in NYPD were mall cop status in how useless they were.

let the cab company know there’s a trouble maker in your whip and the folks at the can company would come through deep and mob on the mugger who is fukking with you.

 

[truth2you]

Your points are 'woulda, coulda, shoulda'. My point is, that's how it was. You keep attempting to say otherwise, but you can't revise history when people who lived through it are still alive.​

There's only one fool in here....and it ain't me.​

You're still under the mistaken impression that addiction was something more pressing in Black neighborhoods than crime. Sorry, that wasn't the case. We didn't care about addicts. We were more worried about getting robbed/shot. Addicts weren't doing that.....until the Crack Epidemic.​

You need to learn how to read because your argument fails.

I'll make it easy for you to understand: Black people didn't consider addiction a problem. We considered CRIME a big problem.

Addiction /= crime until the Crack Epidemic.

When addicts began going HAM, we wanted them put in jail with all the other criminals.

THAT’S my argument.


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You are straight retarded

You are basically saying the same shyt I'm saying, but you so dumb, and argumentative you can't see it.

The difference is I'm saying the government knew how to fix it since they knew how to fix addiction, but they settled for the criminal justice system, ultimately ending in the form of the crime bill. Even by then crime started dropping anyway(1994), so the bill was just a money grab.

I've literally seen it all. You need an education in comprehension

 

[truth2you]

School systems encouraged critical thinking and people had to interact with each other.

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It bypassed @Dafunkdoc_Unlimited

This nikka literally proved my arguments for me consistently, but he thinks he is giving me counterarguments. This shyt is crazy

 

[jmspro]

White dude in the Knicks shirt understood the game way back then.

 

[focusloco]

Man ...they literally had high members of government that were involved in bringing crack into the hood then built a whole system of prisons so they could benefit off those moves....these cacs were literally playing chess and banking while watching Black communities crumble ....now it's a crisis that white people are dying tho huh

 

[BasketCase]

Interesting. The women in those clips who admitted to using crack spoke so clearly.

Nowadays when people talk, I can barely understand what they are attempting to say. And their vocabulary is so limited.

Yup. Almost all of the women rocked their natural hair too.

 

[3rdWorld]

In hindsight, the best thing to do in the beginning was the community to kill all the dealers..now look how things turned out

 

[JerseyFinest!]

It's truly amazing we was bot totally eradicated by the crack era


I was a super young kid in Brooklyn close to east New York home of the 77th precinct (look it up)


I seen some things but was also shielded from alot


Wow looking at this and looking back



It's amazing how they want us to have compassion for the cacs on opioids

I moved to Jersey because Brooklyn was so crazy at the time. We was dirt poor living in VanderVille PJ before my parents came up. It’s amazing thinking back having to navigate through all that as a kid.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

You are straight retarded

You are a revisionist who was not there.​

You are basically saying the same shyt I'm saying, but you so dumb, and argumentative you can't see it.

No, we aren't. You're saying what the government was capable of doing and what we wanted done were possible through treatment rather than incarceration. I'm saying we didn't give a damn about treatment since addiction wasn't viewed in the same light back then, and wanted them locked up.​

I've literally seen it all. You need an education in
comprehension

I would say that's your problem as I've consistently told you what WE wanted while you keep saying 'the Gov't coulda, shoulda, woulda'. The disconnect is on your end.​

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[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

It bypassed @Dafunkdoc_Unlimited

This nikka literally proved my arguments for me consistently, but he thinks he is giving me counterarguments. This shyt is crazy

Nah, son. You just refuse to listen because you think you know better than those who lived it. That's NOT the case, though.

Notice something: I never once referred to you as 'nikka'.

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[Remote]

I moved to Jersey because Brooklyn was so crazy at the time. We was dirt poor living in VanderVille PJ before my parents came up. It’s amazing thinking back having to navigate through all that as a kid.

You made it

 

[NoMayo15]

Again, youre wrong. Crime was falling right when that bill was written in 1994, I remember because I followed the crime stats for every year.

My take is people just got tired of the game. The worse of the worse got locked up, the rest got tired of crack, and weed became the new shyt. Look at the years we are talking about. Crack hit NYC in 1985, by 1988 money was all over the place, and guns started being everywhere to the point teenagers had acess to every gun, and could afford them

Then by 1993, people was getting locked up all the time, and wanted better, plus realized violence stopped money. Then 1996 comes, and a lot was coming home from prison, and cocaine wasn't the money maker it used to be. Rap became the new hustle, and you saw the rise of rappers, dis, and producers all over the country for street people. This is why the music started to change

It wasn't locking people up that changed shyt, people just wanted better, but white society doesn't see us as human so they don't even know any of this stuff. I know because I seen it with the people around me

Weed help keep a lot of people off crack. By 1996 stronger weed was around more.

Do you have any supporting evidence? It seems experts aren't in agreement on what precisely caused the reduction in crime, but it likely were a combination of things... more police and "tough on crime" policies, a better economy and less incentive to do crime, technology changes prompted youth to stay in and play video games rather than gangbang. Your anecdotal take is interesting and maybe was a factor, but there's no reason to think these efforts from government to halt crime was 100% negative and had no positive impact.