Is the Government Pitting Us Against Each Other?

The rise in crack use from 1984 to 1989 is associated with a doubling of the number of murdered black males aged 14 to 17. Crack cocaine starts to enter US inner city communities in 1981, primarily in Southern California. Much if not most of the money comes from people who lived elsewhere outside of the inner city and would drive into inner city communities to buy crack. There's a graph going around Twitter right now that shows where money moves within kind of a graph of an urban area. And it all comes from the inner city out to the suburbs. So one of the things that crack represents is money coming from affluent suburbs and entering the inner city. Nothing else is due. It's normal economics.