HIST 12A Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Moral Panic, Drug Enforcement Agency, Cointelpro
Document Summary
Local battles of the war on crime. The return of foot patrol and increased surveillance and contact with police in neighborhoods. Detroit"s stress program (stop the robberies, enjoy safe streets. Historically law enforcement had been a state and local matter, but drugs were a federal issue as a result of the 1914 harrison narcotics act. Emphasized demand side (drugs users), as well as suppliers. Kept alive many of the tactics of the fbi"s counterintelligence program (cointelpro) Discontinued, but folded into the drug enforcement agency. The biggest prison building plan in the history of the world since 1982. State of ca sacramento rural corcoran south central. State prisoner population grows 500% from 1982-2000, even though crime rate peaked in 1980. 80% represented by state-appointed lawyers for indigent. As a class, convicts are working or workless poor people from deindustrialized cities. All are financed through the state"s general operating costs.
