HST 386 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: 1984 New York City Subway Shooting, Marion Barry, Nancy Reagan
6 Aug 2017
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The crime problem: real rise, fear, drug problems. The war on crime: law, politics, state power. New issues: decline, costs incarceration, police violence, resistance, a nation divided. Film progression: easy rider (1969, dirty harry (1971, super y (1972, death wish (1974, escape from new york (1981, real terror v. racial panic, bernard goetz, representative of a city that felt under siege. In new york, unsafe for blacks, whites, latinos, and other populations. State power: three strikes, federal 1984, 26 states, life in prison after three chances, civil asset forfeiture: can take all your stuff even before they have convicted you. April(cid:1)26,(cid:1)2017: mandatory minimums, drug testing, on students, people receiving government bene ts, zero tolerance policies, propaganda, d. a. r. e, police of cers in their free time. Incarceration: more people behind bars, leaded gasoline. Imprisonment: us has high incarceration rate, especially pronounced at state level, human impact, disproportionate impact on people of color.
