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  1. So this is my week six power point on The
  2. movie is 13 Yeah.
  3. Uh huh.
  4. So the war on drugs started in June 1971 with
  5. President Nixon.
  6. While he declared war on drugs, Nixon's campaign campaign had
  7. two enemies which were the black people and the anti
  8. world left.
  9. So they got the public to associate the hippies which
  10. was anti war left with marijuana and black people with
  11. heroin. And then he criminalized both of these drugs heavily
  12. to disrupt each group.
  13. Yeah bye criminalizing both of these drugs.
  14. He disrupted each group, put their leaders in prison and
  15. kind of tried to break them up so he wouldn't
  16. have very many people against him.
  17. So many people thought this was not okay and they
  18. recommended him to not criminalized distributing and consuming marijuana.
  19. But he did it anyway because that was what was
  20. best for him.
  21. And his campaign Tough on crime was started in 1994
  22. by President Clinton after he passed the Violent Crime Control
  23. and Law Enforcement Act of 1994.
  24. This was to be tough and smart on crime.
  25. The act increased drug treatment programs and gun safety laws.
  26. But at the same time they're giving more money to
  27. prisons and making them have tougher sentences including the three
  28. strikes law which will be talked about later.
  29. This was making their prison population going up A lot
  30. in two years.
  31. It went from 990 49,000 to 1.5 million in 1995.
  32. In 2003 Congress created mandatory sentences for crime and expanded
  33. already existing sentences for crime.
  34. So law and order.
  35. President Nixon created the war on drugs and President Reagan
  36. followed with the law and order strategy in the strategy,
  37. Regular increased law enforcement budgets and decreased funding for drug
  38. treatment and drug prevention and education, which was kind of
  39. confusing because there was so much about drugs going on
  40. at the time, so No one knew why he was
  41. decreasing funding for drug treatment since that was such an
  42. issue. Mhm.
  43. Instead he was putting them in prison instead of focusing
  44. on helping them.
  45. And he also focused on racially based crimes such as
  46. urban unrest.
  47. The people called for a change and instead Reagan focused
  48. on programs for procedural reforms and calls for greater clarity
  49. and accountability which were important.
  50. But the public wanted more reforms on public safety and
  51. police alternatives.
  52. The prison population rates obviously increased so much during this
  53. time because of the increase in mandatory sentencing for crimes
  54. criminalizing acts such as possession of marijuana.
  55. The three strikes policy in more.
  56. Since the war on drugs, the number of americans arrested
  57. for drug possession tripled 1/5 of the population was incarcerated
  58. for a drug charge of some sort and people were
  59. serving life in prison for crimes that used to not
  60. be criminalizing and would never see outside of prison for
  61. the rest of their lives because of um the mandatory
  62. sentencing and the 85% of theirs and inside to be
  63. served, mandatory sentencing was when the minimum sentencing laws created
  64. rules for judges to give the minimum sentences to defendants.
  65. The anti drug abuse act of 1986 Made several different
  66. laws that forced five and 10 year sentences on drug
  67. offenders based on the amount of drugs they had on
  68. them or how severe the drugs crime war.
  69. Congress took away the ability of the federal judges in
  70. these cases to punish the drug offenders in the way
  71. that they saw necessary and instead they gave the power
  72. to the prosecutors.
  73. So some low level offenders got sentences that were not
  74. appropriate for the severity of their crime, which I thought
  75. was important in like cases of violent crime like a
  76. solid murder.
  77. But in small drug possession or drug sale crimes does
  78. not help the people are changed.
  79. But all it does is increase the prison right?
  80. Truth in sentencing.
  81. It started in 1984, these laws made offenders in prison
  82. serve a good chunk of their sentence, parole eligibility and
  83. good credits were restricted or taken away.
  84. Truth in sentencing laws made states keep The prisoner in
  85. prison for at least 85% of their sentence.
  86. If the crime was under a part one violent crime.
  87. I think that this would help.
  88. And I think that there are a lot of times
  89. where I don't think people deserve pearl or have already
  90. given up their right to have for like if they've
  91. been in and out and then now and do something
  92. very violent such as manslaughter, murder, assault, but if it's
  93. something like low level, I don't think that they do
  94. deserve to not have a chance to get out on
  95. parole or good behavior.
  96. But sometimes I think that this will help reduce and
  97. stop crime.
  98. The three Strikes Law, this is after three strikes, the
  99. defendant received life imprisonment if they are convicted of a
  100. serious violent felony in federal court and if they have
  101. two or more convictions before this felony in federal or
  102. state courts, the prior offense could also be a serious
  103. drug offense.
  104. So a serious violent felony could be murder, manslaughter, kidnapping,
  105. robbery, sex offenses or any other fence that could have
  106. been punished with 10 years with the element of force
  107. involved A serious drug offense is any violations of title
  108. 21 which could be you distribute Yushin, manufacturing of drugs
  109. possession with the intent to distribute and having significant quantities
  110. of the controlled substance.
  111. I think that with the street three strikes law it's
  112. a good idea with like good intentions behind it.
  113. But I don't think in all drug offenses such as
  114. like distributing that should count as a strike to put
  115. you in prison forever.
  116. But I think this year's violent felony should all be
  117. kept that way and I think that those will help
  118. reduce crime if they know that that could be there
  119. outcome in life that they won't just get out and
  120. they'll have to be in prison for the rest of
  121. their life.
  122. What would I do?
  123. And actions I would impart, I think I would decriminalize
  124. marijuana and take that off the war on drugs in
  125. general. The war on drugs should not target any group
  126. of people and focus more on getting people help with
  127. drugs and leading them in a better path in educating
  128. people on what drugs are and how they are not
  129. all so bad.
  130. I'm not getting people to look at certain people and
  131. bad ways because they do something that is not right.
  132. The street three strikes law should not include small drug
  133. crimes because life imprisonment would not be deserving for that.
  134. I would focus on ending violent crimes and keeping those
  135. people in prison without parole and work on folks having
  136. the police officers get a better relationships with citizens to
  137. help them educate them and stay in a good path.
  138. Drug offenders should be given the chance to go to
  139. rehab and change before seeking them in prison for a
  140. minimum sentence.
  141. And even life.
  142. Mhm. And here are all of my references