3. "Nah, even back then many of us saw that it was an excuse to pass laws..." In response to In response to 0 Wed Jan-23-19 11:00 AM by flipnile
...laws that disproportionately affected the black community.
>The idea that there were super-predators preying on people >wasn't an outrageous notion at the height of the Country's >murder rate in the mid 90s. > > But when you have 20-year-olds who don't remember how we >were all nuts about crime, berating politicians for their >stance on crime two decades ago. I think that's also an >oversimplification.
Elders used to tell me point-blank that the aggressive policing was to get us on papers so that we can be confined and controlled. Many people called for legalization of marijuana way back then as a high number of minorities were ending up doing bids for possession. The crack vs. cocaine sentencing disparities. Police abuse. etc.
I agree that a lot of politicians were on some "law and order!" back then, but there were a fair number of people calling it out.