HIST 12A Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Hard Currency, Racial Profiling, Posse Comitatus
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As he takes office, he inherits the institutional architecture of the war on crime. Huge interest rate hikes slow the economy. The monetary stabilization of the world economy in the early 1980s was a tour de force that came with a high political risk; it could only be undertaken by governments such as those of reagan and thatcher. That were willing to trade mass unemployment"s for the restoration of sound money" and to crush the expected social resistance as whatever cost -wolfgang streeck. Crime is a national defense problemyou"re in as much jeopardy in the streets as you are from the soviet missile (1982) Introduces bills that became comprehensive crime control act of 1984. From hinton, marks official beginning of the war on drugs. Enables new partnerships between military institutions and domestic law enforcement (after the earlier revision of the posse comitatus act of 1878) Increases the transnational scope of the war on drugs.
