@The War Report This article is from 1987, and it goes into detail how Dominicans helped fuel the crack trade. Again, I'm not dissing Dominicans, just making a point, and proving it. YOU took it there, I'm just reacting.
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/31/nyregion/us-breaks-up-major-crack-ring-in-new-york.html
U.S. Breaks Up Major Crack Ring in New York
By ARNOLD H. LUBASCH
Published: July 31, 1987
"Federal authorities yesterday said they had smashed a drug ring that they described as the biggest distributor of crack in New York City.
The officials said 29 people, headed by a 26-year-old suspect from the Dominican Republic, operated a ring that distributed as much as 10,000 vials of crack a day, primarily in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan and the Bronx.
Six of the defendants were arrested in the New York area late Wednesday and early yesterday, 10 others were already in custody on other charges and the rest, including the suspected leader, were being sought, principally in the Dominican Republic.
The case, officials said, was significant because it showed the growth and sophistication of the crack trade, which only two years ago was made up of low-level dealers producing the potent form of cocaine in kitchen laboratories and hawking it on street corners. And while it also represented an important step in the fight against crack, they said it could hardly stamp out the crack epidemic in the city."
"The man called the ringleader, Santiago Luis Polanco-Rodriguez, was portrayed by Mr. Stutman as ''probably the marketing genius'' behind the dramatic spread of crack in the Washington Heights area in the last two years.
Washington Heights was among the neighborhoods hit first and most powerfully by the spread of crack."
"According to the detailed 54-page indictment, the ring began distributing cocaine in glassine envelopes in 1982, but switched in 1985 to selling crack in vials with the ''Based Balls'' brand name."
Notice that they started selling crack in 1985, right when crack started hitting NYC. You think that is a coincidence?
Is that enough proof for you, or am I still talking out of my ass