Devil's Economics: Drugs are likely to kill neighbors, but what does it matter?
For black Americans, their lives have improved steadily and dramatically in the 40 years between World War II and the advent of the drug/drug trade, especially after the civil rights movement in the 60s of the 20th century, when the social status of black Americans was finally recognized by the whole society. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info gap between blacks and whites continues to narrow. There is also a smaller gap in achievement between black and white children in schools. Most heartening is the change in infant mortality. Even in 1964, black infants were twice as dead as white children, often due to diseases such as asthma or tuberculosis. Because of the segregation policies of black and white hospitals, many black patients were treated to a level similar to that of the Third World. Things began to change when the federal government announced the elimination of hospital isolation: in just seven years, the death rate of black infants had halved. By the 80s of the 20th century, basically every aspect of black American life had improved, and this trend showed no signs of stopping.
It was at this time that the poison appeared.
Although it is not only black people who use drugs/drugs, it is true that drugs affect black people more than it affects other races. Evidence suggests that after decades of decline, black infant mortality began to rise dramatically in the 80s of the 20th century. The incidence of underweight and infant abandonment is also greatly increased. The achievement gap between black and white children in school has also begun to widen. The number of blacks sent to prison has tripled. Drugs are very destructive, affecting not only those who use drugs, but also all black families. The improvements that black Americans have made with decades of hard work have been set back by 10 years almost instantaneously. It has been said that for black Americans, the impact of drugs on their lives is second only to that of Jim Crow, the most famous black discrimination bill in American history, initiated by Jim Crow, who stipulated the policy of segregation between blacks and whites. - Translator's note).
Drugs are followed by crime. In five years, there were four times as many homicides among black Americans living in cities. Suddenly, black people living in Chicago or St. Louis or Los Angeles were as dangerous as living in Bogotá.
Drug-related violent crime is varied and extremely brutal, and it coincides with a larger wave of crime that has been brewing in the United States for 20 years. Although this wave of crime predates the drug trade, it is true that the drug trade has exacerbated the increase in crime rates to such a large extent that criminologists have made extremely pessimistic predictions. James Alan Fox, considered by some to be the most respected crime expert in the mass media, once warned the world that "because of the rising tide of youth crime, a bloody massacre is inevitable." ”
But it turns out that Fox and those who subscribe to "conventional wisdom" are wrong. The bloody massacre did not appear. In fact, the crime rate began to decline, and the decline was so drastic and so complete that it was difficult to determine the real cause until a few years later, when people look back on it.
Why is there such a sudden drop in crime?
There are many reasons for this, but one is particularly obvious. Oscar De Niro Brandon, the legendary "drug/product processing factory", may be the trigger of the ripple effect of the crime wave, and he may be the one who single-handedly pushed the entire society into the abyss of despair. To everyone's surprise, there was an equally powerful factor at work, albeit in the opposite direction, and it was such a factor that finally exerted a ripple effect in the other direction, bringing the whole of America out of the abyss in one fell swoop.