Origins. Gateway to the war on drugs: marijuana, 1975 ; Black lives matter: gun control, 1975 ; Representatives of their race: the rise of African American police, 1948-78 -- Consequences. "Locking up thugs is not vindictive": sentencing, 1981-82 ; "The worst thing to hit us since slavery": crack and the advent of warrior policing, 1988-92 ; What would Martin Luther King, Jr., say?: stop and search, 1995 -- The reach of our mercy, 2014-16.
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