The fallout from NYC's "Crack Era" - Only in New York - Episode 2
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Amid the drug-fueled violence of the crack epidemic, New York City began taking extreme measures to clean up the streets. Suspected drug dealers were arrested in droves, spawning the era of mass incarceration.
Now, in 2019, a wave of overturned convictions is exposing the collateral damage of an overeager criminal-justice system.
Only in New York chronicles some of the most controversial moments in recent New York City history. A subway shooting that ignited a racial firestorm; the deadly days of the crack epidemic; a pair of high-profile trials that exposed the hidden horrors of domestic abuse; and the assassination of a rising political star inside the hallowed corridors of municipal power. These stories are retold with rare footage pulled straight from the WPIX archives. Only in New York features new interviews with PIX11 journalists, expert analysts and the headline-makers themselves. Watch Fridays in March on PIX11 TV.
Created by Heath Benfield
Produced by Heath Benfield and Mike Lee
Production Coordinator - Mike Lee
Director of Photography - Colin Sonner
Supervising Editor - Dmitry Trakovsky
Executive Producers - David Hyman, Bart Feder and Chris Wayland
Colorist - Markus Englmair
Production Assistant - Matthew Santora
Title Artist - Steve Mitas
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The sad part is people look at the crime committed by gangs and drugs but not against the place drugs were coming from and who let them in.
They clearly saying you can kill yall selves but kill one of us we gone shut shit down but play it off like we wanted to help crazy
Damn straight. Like the B. L. M. riots. You're free to burn, loot, murder but Jan 6th (oh boy y'all better not even think of overthrowing us)
Even though they just walked in it scared the HELL out of the power's that be.
Exactly
Oh stop it. Nobody put a gun to their heads to take or sell drugs. And yea I grew up in the crack 80s in a Miami hood. With two ex cons for parents
@@Shinobi33 well, no they didn’t put it in the hell but they should’ve made access to it very easy
This makes me angry. 😡😡that they locked up so many people for so many years on crimes they never committed.😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
That's the crooked NYPD for ya! What's even more shameful is they still stand with the notion that they did nothing wrong! Sick people man...
I just giggle when these kids say times are getting bad NY in the 80s MANNNNN
Street blawger, times are far worse now. The 80s were peaceful for me.
@@renealexander2703 You were in a safe place, just say that... Lol damn near every serial killer, sadistic documentary take place in the 80s and 90s.
@@RobSoRandom , not just me. I lot of people were in safe places. This was not all over. And serial killers existed before the 80s.
I grew up in NYC during that time. It was a warzone. It wasn't a childhood it was survival. Everyone who had a case during that time should be re-examined. All those who profited should be made to pay restitution. Also counseling should be provided to those that needed it was a form of PTSD. I used to count crack viles on my way to school during that time. I remember them crunching beneath my feet at the time not knowing what they were. This is was truly a very sad point for my generation.
Curious how D.A. Ken Thompson died as he was over turning these cases.
At the end of the video it says he passed away from cancer R.I.P.
I feel u it was like that ever were if u grew up in da 80 early 90 I'm from Cali I know 1st had look at video crack in da system
So your saying the crack dealers should pay reparations and the cops should get some help because of ptsd
What about the crack addicts don't they have ptsd too???? Think I have many innocent people try that for the first time didn't know what they wee getting into
Be thankful lucky at least you werent counting the crack vials that you had smoked
People who think crime in 2019 is bad have no idea
That’s a fact it’ll never be as bad as that crack era that was something I’ve never seen b4 although I was young I lived right in the heart of it
William Atkins
I know it was crazy
M Soda, I do have an idea. Where I live, crime is far worse now.
@@williamatkins8487 , I was alive in the 80 and 90s and I never experienced the crack era. For me, the 80s and 90s were peaceful, innocent and magical. It's far worse today.
@@renealexander2703
In 1988 there were 1896 murders in that year compared to 488 murders in 2021.
The reason things seem bad is that we have better new coverage with social media so very little crime gets covered. Back in the 1980’s it was only the 5pm news and newspapers they only covered to big stuff.
Queens District Attorney’s office needs a conviction review unit!! I have seen some corrupt shyt in that office!!! And it continues to this day!!!
No mention of stop and frisk, really? (Unconstitutional)
It's all about birth control. Birth control needs to be free to all. If a young man wants a vasectomy. It should be free. The crime rate would drop like a rock. The prison population would drop. People would not be afraid to walk the streets. People would be able to pull themselves out of Poverty.
In better countries with stronger families, it's much nicer.
Most non-whyt men do not want vasectomies, and most non-white women do not want their tubes tied. But for you? I agree. Good idea.
This is sad messed up history, but I like seeing the grittiness of NY back then
Yea that’s a facts it was so grimy back then crime was non stop but that was my childhood and despite all the ruckus I had fun those were the good ole days 4 me
@@williamatkins8487 , I never experienced any crime.
@@renealexander2703ok we get it you lived under a rock
@@showmestatefinest5412 , nope. A lot of people didn't experience crime. Just because you did does not mean everyone did. Your experience is not everyone's experience.
This is why more blk people and organizations should do more to prevent/speak out against criminality.
Police alone are not a solution.
Why only Blk ppl? Why don’t you speak out against Fentanyl? Get your people to stop clogging up the streets with their tents and needles.
When all the earners leave the state because of insane taxes and rent seeking NYC will slide right back to this reality. Crack wasn't what caused the problem it was terrible governance.
And still is
Dang so sad for Mr. Bond. That's a shame he had to fight for three decades (30 years. NOT MONTHS BUT YEARS) to clear his name... its suppose to be you are innocent until proven guilty... if they had no proof they are dead wrong to incarcerate him... I Hope they are helping this man build his life as much as they helped to destroy it... this man maybe could have been a great police, lawyer, teacher or any benefit to any community. As well as the other innocents. God bless. Have a great life you all
And that makes no sense for them to arrest a 14 yr old child and say he shot and killed 2 policemen and took their car... that's ridiculous
Nino Brown---"cocaine doesn't grow in America ---except in greenhouses..."
And now the crime is on it's way up again. 🤦🏾♀️
I’m only half way through this but this doesn’t make sense I know crack effected bad and must be annoying that police arrest actual criminals and they walk free couple of days later but how is convicting innocent people going to help clear the streets of criminals.
This is exactly why our people need to be in politics and stop voting democratic 💯💯💯
You really think the the republicans are going to solve things? It's about policies rather than if you're democrat or republican.
@@awsomeboy360 Never said Republicans would either. But I did say we need to be in politics a lot more and step away from democratic parties, which is what a lot of us are.
@@raina86 THANK YOU 🙏🏾🙏🏿🙏🏽💯🎯💯🎯💯
@@awsomeboy360 two sides of the same coin ..is that how that goes???🤔
PAC....Said we need our own PARTY...!!!!
The peeplez...Party!!!
Good documentary series so far, I am on episode 2. Well edited. I love seeing all of that old footage. I feel for the people who had to live in the rough neighborhoods, my heart truly goes out to them.
I ain't gonna lie, I was born in 89' in NY. So technically that makes me a 90s baby by default. I'm real fortunate I wasn't born to 2 addicted parents at the time. I knew kids I was in school w/ at that time tell me he was born to a crack addicted mother and a father in jail. Cuz by the media's definition, the "crack babies/kids" being born during that whole era were millennials like me. But the era burned itself out by the 92'. The next gen at that time (Gen X) saw what it did to their family, parents, and older siblings and said fuck that and took a different route. Plus all the big players in the city back then either got locked up, killed, or got shot, nearly flirted with death and decided to give up the game by the time the 90s came around.. I heard the stories about the years before I was born and I was thinking like damn, I don't think I probably woulda been able to survive during that era in my honest opinion.
Agree with most of your comment. I'm 10yrs older than you, so my perspective is a little different. I didn't have family members who were smoking that I know of. But I had friends who did. I saw the changes in a few families. Many of my generation were raised by grandparents, because the parents were on drugs, in jail or deceased because of crack. A large amount of these kids DID become involved with crack. We were the teenagers of the mid to late 90s. Many of guys I knew who parents were involved with crack, went on to sell it. Damn near every guy i knew whose dad was locked up, ended up selling crack and going to jail too. It's a cycle, I'm in my 40s now. And I know several guys I grew up with, who did time in their early 20s, and now their sons are doing time or in the streets. Its a cycle, before crack it was heroin, after crack(never really left, still here) it's been meth & opiates. Be thankful you didn't see the 80s, it was confusing...
Generation x is tye generation before millennial.
Boy talk about history repeating itself… ☹️☹️☹️
I was locked up and convicted because I was Guilty for associating with Criminals even though I had nothing to do with the crime. I was simply one of 43 people who was there but only because I was known to be around this "criminal" in question I was Chosen a Bias line up and had my freedom and innocence taken away... I was 17 years old and a young father to be when this happen. I wasn't involved nor did I take anything from the Victim. I can say now at 44 I can say that has to be the one situation that ruined my life.
The 23rd pct. In the '80's and '90's was very dirty when it came to locking up young uneducated teens from low income or no income families in Spanish Harlem. It was a business to kill of a generation with mass incarceration.
They might have taken you as a prisoner but they will never take away your voice, mind, and spirit! From the looks of it now, karma is now getting back at those thugs who've wrongfully convicted you and many others just so they can make a name for themselves. Cowards they are!
Do you know the story of Joseph and how his brothers sold him into slavery? Then he was jailed on a false rape charge. What was meant for evil, eventually brought good. As well as Joseph forgiving his jealous brothers and being reunited with his family, including his little brother.
How long did they send you away?
@antoinnemorales Brother man I feel for you. This should never happen in a so-called free nation. It's my prayer that you've been made whole and can get past the injustice inflicted upon you And your family. You are in my thoughts and prayers bro 🙏🏽 ✊🏽
S/O to Channell 11 back wen it was just straight WPIX-11. The Bronx loves you and I love you! The only station that keeps it a Hundo 💯 🙅🏾♀️
Just support homeboy not youretext..doo. Better
I wish they had a UA-cam channel and just show all the old programs we grew up on
I urge people to see the film "The Seven Five". Just one example of how drugs got into out inner cities. If you think it's still not going on and the "new yawk cawps" are not still involved, I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.
ua-cam.com/video/vM0IOHiZSl4/v-deo.html - The "Seven Five" Official Trailer 1 (2014) (2 mins. 18 sec.) - Documentary HD; by: Movieclips Indie on Apr 15, 2015
Agreed
Superb documentary
Those guinea pigs are inhuman.
The cops in the Seven Five did their dirt twenty years after the Serpico case supposedly "exposed" corruption once and for all. The type of person who wants to be a cop will always let their ego and greed take over. Lots of cops are cokehead alcoholics... They're the type of losers who get paranoid on weed.
Exonerated but still did the time smh. System ain’t $hit
Drugs did not destroy those neighborhoods - racist economic policies did.
For all we know, crack WAS one of those racists policies.
Q X the neighborhood was damaged before crack came along.. definitely made things worse
Nope. They did.
@@juanfigueroa9148 , thank you. The neighborhood was destroyed before crack.
@@renealexander2703 yeap!! First the cross Bronx came along, then the heroin, the gangs, NYC being broke, the guns from Vietnam, crack, ice,etc... I lived through those times and have the stab wounds, bat scares to prove it. Tough times but fun times
love this series. please make more. very well done. i feel like there is an unlimited amount of topics that can be used
Where is Episode 1?? This topic is very addicting
So, our misery should be highlighted?
Highlight Meth addicts and their families and crimes... Highlight them in their folly for the entertainment of others.... *Episode That!*
Stories like this make people cynical about the US judicial system.
This is why I don't care about the opioid crisis karma
Facts 👊🏽
Hope your happy now bro. That’s so shitty that happened. Peace bro
I lived in Florida and so many were on it even throughout America, but all the crime and killing I Never saw that in Florida!!!
So, if I put cookies and candy and soda pops in a day care, watch the students become addicted to sugar, and put them in timeout for eating the snacks whose at fault? Yea, exactly. Nixon put these drugs in the community
Stay away from drugs.god bless you all.🙏.
You must be nancy reagan just say know to drugs
@@kim_fd8938 her statement was just as ignorant and ridiculous as the war on drugs 😂
The reacton to the current opioid crisis vs the crack epidemic is quite stark in terms of compassion...
Great insight to those that were born after that time.
I don't know how the hell this former detective is NOT in jail! THEY locked up those two OTHER two detectives who were doing hits for the mob, and they were DEFINITELY sent to bad prisons!
exactly
This a totally evil system! 😡
So the crack era is 25 plus years gone..what is our excuse now as a people.
Jury selection, trial, and verdict in one day?!? What kind of lawyer did he have?
So sorry this happened to my black and brown brothers and sisters in New York!
Here in Chicago too
We tried banning a drug, it's called alcohol. How'd that work out? The solution is to legalize, tax, and regulate all currently illegal substances.
My sister and I used spend our summers in the Bronx during the early and mid 90’s. NYC was crazy even compared to the DC area where we were from. I remember my dad used bring his ar15 in the trunk of our car and he always carried a 1911 on his waist and a 32 in his pocket Everytime we went to his old neighborhood.
To find out recently that it was President Ronald Reagan's Administration and the CIA who flooded our community has caused me to repent constantly for the hate, anger and Pain it has caused me. Crack broke up the family structure that we once had. Mother's and Father's were being arrested in masses.
The blame cannot just be put on Reagan. What about Nixon and others before Reagan? What about Presidents after Reagan?
@@renealexander2703 yeah you right I blame the Reagan Administration and the whole United States American government .
@@MickJay3 , also the Presidents before and after Reagan. I don't know why some act like Reagan is the only one and give others a pass.
@@renealexander2703 this is my 3rd time trying to give facts but UA-cam keep erasing my comments.
@@renealexander2703
ua-cam.com/video/ccZkcFEyUyc/v-deo.html
IN THE 90'S A LOT OF PRESSURE TO FIND PEOPLE GUILTY, WELL IT'S NOT LIKE THIS NOW IN 2023 & THEY FIND EVERYONE GUILTY STILL & IN CALIFORNIA 25 TO LIFE TO ANY YOUNG PERSON. PLUS THE GOVERNMENT WAS FLOODING THE NEIGHBORHOOD WITH THE DRUGS, WTF
How many reasons do we have to have for our case for REPARATIONS! WE HAVE TO FIGHT FOR REPARATIONS NOW!
The average amount of time that a dollar stays in the Asian community is about 21 days. In the Jewish community its about 17 days. The average amount of time that a dollar stays in the black community is about 6 hours. Now exactly how long do you think it would take before money from reparations made it right back into the hands of a rich white man? My guess is by fucking dinner time. Black people don't even support black owned businesses and need to change their mindset before reparations are even considered. Otherwise the taxpayers of this country (including yourself) may as well just cut all of these billionaires that run this shit a check right now. Also, where does that money come from? The government doesn't provide a good or service and doesn't create anything or any wealth. They extort it from people like you and me.
The reparations would have to come from the upper levels of gov't cuz they the ones that did all this ish to us. They owe EVERY American reparations at this point & it don't matter what skin complexion you be.
The judge who sentenced that man wrongfully should be locked up for an equal amount of time to make up for costing that man his life
I do remember snickering to my dumb tourist self in 2002 while watching the drama of toughness unfold with the comings and goings on an inbound subway that'd started in South Jamaica.
What kind of system locks up the innocent? :-(
The American system. Follow the money
R.I.P. Ken Thompson
Ron Kuby involuntarily admitted that the war on crime made NYC the safest big city in the world. That was 5 years ago in better times. Look at what the city has become in the years since the lenience began. We’re back to the 80’s again. Smh 🤦🏻♂️
30.....YEARS.......In Prison for a crime you did not commit, smfh.
You're entire life is gone in aspect of making something of yourself by that point, you've been in Prison for so long that you don't know anything else. You don't know a trade, you don't know how how society works, you don't know how the world works now because of the internet. Of all of the people who've been wrongfully imprisoned for most of their lives, that guy John more than deserves to be paid millions of dollars in restitution. I hope that guy got a massive payout and is able to just enjoy a great life for the rest of his days and do something positive with it.
The audacity of Bush
One of the greatest drug traffickers of all time! There's a reason why RATM's "Guerilla Radio" had the verse "Vote for Gore or the Son of a Drug Lord? Vote None Of The Above! Fuck it, cut the cord!"
Love you Johnny, just randomly ran into this. Proud of you ❤🙏🏼
I see a lot of people in UA-cam saying how safe and peaceful it was in the past. I think these are all young people who never were around in the 80s and early 90s or lived in a small town and were ignorant.
Those sweeps took anyone!
Summertime CRACK COCAINE binge brought myself down w vodka's TITO'S
Absolutely revolting
New York. The good ole days. "Crack is whack" mural by Keith Haring.
Thank you for the context. People who criticize today's legislation that resulted from this era need to see or be reminded of just how crazy and scary it was during the time. Everyone was calling for legislative action. Something had to be done to get things under control. It's unfortunate but crime and violence at that time was out of control.
Black Americans were the victims of the crack epidemic, the opioid epidemic is way worse. Wake up
EXACTLY
J. Anderson, that was in a few select places. Crime was not out of control everywhere.
@@renealexander2703 It was like Armageddon. Even the suburbs were getting hammered. Are you serious? Yes, kids could still play and people had fun but when the night came the streets belonged to Crack and powdered cochise in the wealthiest of areas to the poorest.
@@renealexander2703 to state it was only a few places minimizes the people that were directedly impacted by the out of control crime in a lot of major cities. Sure crime wasn't out of control every where and maybe it wasn't a problem where you grew up, but that doesn't mean crime wasn't a major issue and affected a lot of people in other places. And maybe it impacted yourself indirectly, who knows. What I do know growing up during that era is a lot of folks were frightened for themselves and their children and we shouldn't attempt to dismiss others people's pain and trauma because we ourselves weren't subjected to it simply for political reasons without any real context.
That lol girl crying at 6:30 is truthfully heartbreaking
We grow up quickly back in the 90’s. Your lively hood depended it.
But it was not the same for everyone. For me, the 90s were wonderful.
@@renealexander2703 Thats true for the 80s also it depended on WHERE you lived and your chosen lifestyle..For me the 80s and 90s were great..with sad tragic moments in the 90s
Nothing new. I had a brother who was destroyed like this. Innocent too. Genuinely innocent. There was no vindication for him. Govt.sponsored terrorism
Still after all the damage done by the crack epidemic there's a question that haven't been fully answered: Where did the drug come from because from where i grew up,,no one had the means to even get it into the neighborhood...
michael greene, none of the neighborhoods where I live were damaged by crack. Plus, neighborhoods were damaged before crack.
And then came St. George. And I ain’t talking Ferry !
I never understood why people called them blue eye devils. To see George Bush looking into the camera saying tougher penalties when he new why this was taking place, gives me understanding why they called them that name. 😈
Create..ah problem....I have a solution!!!
They the reptilians.
When he said “we lock up bad guys who kill bad guys”…is he really that bad of a guy if he’s cleaning up the streets?
For this reason and this reason alone should eradicate the death penalty. 260 people found innocent after being convicted. If nothing else the question should be raised ( HOW MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MURDERED BY THE JUSTICE SYSTEM?)
Where did the drugs come from exactly?
From amalek the descendants of esau the haters of us israelites
Drugs were corrupting the world long BEFORE the 80s.
And now it's spiraling right back to where it was.
Yeah we need to do it all over again too many drugs on the streets today once again
Demonic leaders of a demonic system
Well, at least I did not see any drug-related violence when I lived in Sacramento California in 1998 and 99.
I was 10 in 1980 20 in 1990 I'm from Detroit now I graduated in 1987 my father worked general motors so I didn't worry about a roof or food.when I graduated 1987 I went to work at fast food's taco bell KFC little ceasars burger king.i sold drug's legally sugar caffeine steroids in meat $3.35 a hour and I saved half a check a month before leaving my parents house.then I got a student loan took half and put it in a savings account to gain interest to make loan payments and got a credit card a used car and 3 job's relevant to fixing my car junkyard parts puller wreck tow truck auto body shop. Auto detail limo service. And I still went to jail for gun trafficking no evidence no nothing being black wrong place wrong time. I was released after 4 month's but lost my jobs my apartment and I'm in the system for crime that's what America is a racist genocide program to control the colored population and get paid doing it. Police prosecutors office judge private prisons and all businesses that cater the system for crime with tax payer money gets a check everyone but the free labor convicts guilty or not.
Wasn’t no gangs back then in Nyc only crews
I'm old enough to remember when selling crack was a woman's business.
what do you mean?
Tf u talking bout son lol
@@The808Mixmaster Think he means the Crack of a women's butt
Pussycat
Why didn't they arrest the CIA or gop
“Let’s be tough on PRO CRIMINALS” dise Bush Sr
Where's the crack? Where'd it go?
Also,
According to Jessica Wolpaw Reyes of Amherst College, between 1992 and 2002 the phase-out of lead from gasoline in the U.S. "was responsible for approximately a 56% decline in violent crime".
„He is completely exonerated!“
You mean, like, for something he didn’t do..
Crime went down back then but these days its a giant shitshow
Shout out to all the wrongfully convicted, shame on the crooked dA
This aged like milk, wouldn't be caught dead in NYC.
Well, maybe dead yeah..
I fucking hate the locked up innocence stories. Law enforcement should be ashamed
That is terrible what happened to Jon Bun, unbelievable what happened to him. I hope he writes a book on resiliency and having open communication with your higher power and yourself. He is wrongfully convicted during the adolescent stage, I mean geez this young man just starting puberty. All those years from 91'-2019 I( believe). I am not a psychiatrist or therapist, or neuroscience but all those years gone without being around your peers and opposite sex in society. The thing is once become an adult it would be nearly impossible to live the rest of your life. Man, terrible!!
he say the safest city in America i wonder what he think about new york city today 2022
i believe that the murder at 09:47 was the scene to the murder in the movie "fort apache " who reproducted in the movie of 1989 i believe ?
where can we find episode 1?
How come Scarcella hasn't gone missing yet?
UNLAWFUL SEARCH ARREST INCARSERATION IS A $1000000 PENALTY AGAINT THE POLICE DEPT
Very good
They need to do that again
Where is 5:56 at ?? What borough
These people ALWAYS have an excuse to waste dark people time. We are the CONSTANT project and yall still dont see it. AMAZING
Well he Wasnt Lying, Crack Sho IS here to Stay, its STILL HERE in 2024 7:30
Man we are in the fucking twilight zone 2021
Baking soda is one he'll of a drug
That detective scarcella should be in prison.
Only everywhere...
2021 new York city.crime is out of control .
Lmfao no it ain't 🤣
@@The808Mixmaster it is for these Mommas boys that never left the house before 😂
Genocide… damn evil demons.
God bless you my brother, keep on fighting the good fight! Stay focused, stay sober, be blessed ❤
Time has reminded remember ppl we are in it again