Murders rates in the early 90s seemed unreal looking back at it

[kp404]

Ummmm......you do know Daddy Bush was the Vice President both terms right....

And director of the CIA back when they were flooding black neighborhoods with drugs and guns and subversive agents in gangs and organizations....H.W. was in some really nasty shyt too

 

[newworldafro]

I wonder if they'll put that (real) Rick Ross based movie on Redbox.




Edit: http://www.redbox.com/movies/kill-the-messenger

 

[kp404]

I wonder if they'll put that (real) Rick Ross based movie on Redbox.




Edit: http://www.redbox.com/movies/kill-the-messenger

Too bad the rest of the movie isn't that good. The book is MUCH better

 

[Pill Gates]

Looking at my nikka buried in timbs with a coogi hat on in his casket i will never forget that day.

I'm sorry but

 

[aboss4real24]

outside the n.o

the south was never violent

 

[DrX]

it was the crack era.....i remember how rough the 90s was.....the kids now are different from when was coming up...and thats a good thing...u really had to fight a nikka just about every block u went into

 

[who_better_than_me]

Dc was horrible. Im still amaze at the difference today compared to back in the 90s.

 

[sportscribe]

Don't underestimate the role of the destruction of inner city public housing complexes in the reduction of violent crime. Gentrification might be a taboo word, but it has certainly played its role is reducing inner city crime. The drawback though is that it has pushed crime to the suburbs, particularly in the major cities. Violent crime was notoriously high in some of these housing complexes because a lot of these gangs could control entire buildings that served as a base for their narcotics distribution. Now the gangs are more sprawled out throughout the cities. It shouldn't be lost upon anyone though that it was the introduction of crack into the ghettos that made them deteriorate the 80s and 90s levels.

 

[toomanydoses]

They never stopped, its always just a different drug, political conflict, etc. Look up pictures of marines guarding poppy fields not eradicating them in Afghanistan. And look up videos of convoys guarding shipments into Iran.

And director of the CIA back when they were flooding black neighborhoods with drugs and guns and subversive agents in gangs and organizations....H.W. was in some really nasty shyt too

 

[jadillac]

outside the n.o

the south was never violent

not true.

Houston in the early-mid 8-0s was pretty violent and Dallas had it's share too.

New Orleans wasjust on another level

 

[BrothaZay]

outside the n.o

the south was never violent

Miami
Houston
Dallas
ATL
Memphis

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

outside the n.o

the south was never violent

everywhere crack touched, there was violence, and it touched alot of places in the south breh, along with all over the country.


our government is so damn fukked up, fukk reagan

 

[Jamaal]

Read your history. I grew up in that shyt and the brehs are right...Reagan fukked us all in ways that affect us to this day; of course, shyt was already ugly, but he took it to another level of the game

A while ago, I read about how his administration went after the Black Panthers and them being the main reason why he supported gun control. No wonder why today's RWers idolize him so much. He sounded like a hatemongerer, and justified selfishness through trickle-down. If I were old enough to watch him become president, I would've been throwing stuff at my TV every time he was on.

 

[Tommy Sheppard]

I would say looser police and laws made the crime rate higher. If nikkas could be on the block wavin down cars and open air drug markets and sellin dope in front of cops like they use to then the violence would probably be the same, granted the drug trade was still as profitable

this sounds like hamsterdam

 

[johntheblackjew]

i often think about all the artistic and academic geniuses that the black american community lost either to murder or prison during that period....

i have no doubt its the reason for the decline in black american art nowadays...no one was around to pass the tradition to the younger kids..