Mar 26 2013

The Drug War: Still Racist and Failed #11

From Sociological Cinema:

“This short news documentary examines the relationships between race, poverty, incarceration, crime, and the war on drugs. It focuses on Baltimore, and its very high crime rates, showing how poor residents get attracted to crime and the drug business as a means of economic survival…

Read the accompanying story here.

Below is a shorter news clip from 2008: