The Dallas Drug War (1990)

Frontline: The Dallas Texas Drug War (1990)
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[@Medi533]

Ain't a damn thing changed.

[@zztv15]

Yes it has All of the big cities in America was a fucking Warzone the murder rate was high ASF in the 80s and 90s

[@LovelyPeace-si7jp]

definitely has, agreed 1oo % tlkn about 9oo + killings it definitely has slowed down 😊​@@zztv15

[@jortega61924]

@@zztv15it was worse back in the day 😱 I was 10 back then .

[@duaneoldfield]

The murder rate was really high then compared to now. Not saying it's non existent but it's better. I have lived in Dallas my entire life. The City Council and leadership has been useless for decades

[@edreynolds8721]

I was just thinking the same thing. The more things change the more they stay the same. The Gang shootings may be way lower today but the violence is up regardless of drugs and the death toll from drugs is definitely hire.

[@flip3172]

Thank you for these videos!! History at its finest

[@dallastx214]

That undercover cop use to eat lunch with me at W.T. White and would always ask who was selling stuff. I was 15 when he was there. I told all my friends that he was a narc and as anyone can see none of the ppl that got arrested were Hispanic. I saw him a few months later in uniform at Dallas convention center at a 15 lol i got detained by the DPD i guys until he left. Ftp if he ever reads this.

[@timeghost82]

Santos Rodriguez was murdered by Dallas police. Him and his brother were taken out of their home while asleep. The police suspected them of breaking into a vending machine. While being questioned inside the car, the cop played Russian roulette with Santos trying to get a confession out of him. Then the gun went off killing him. Till this day i belive the family hasn't gotten an apology from the city. God what a horrific picture. Rip little man.

[@bobbellendovich6825]

Get over it. Stop looking for conflict you can do nothing about, except complain about your feelings. They apologized. Park, placard, cameras, police, politicians, tears and crying included. Happy?

[@timeghost82]

@@bobbellendovich6825 yeah get over the murder of a kid. Shit let's just forget about all the kids here and all over the world that have died cause of war poverty gun violence or a psycho cop. Nothing can be done. Especially with people like you around. Anyways have a wonderful life. I'm sure your are.

[@danielpavlides3753]

⁠​⁠@@bobbellendovich6825”stop looking for conflict you can do nothing about” Take your own advice what a instantly, hypocritical statement… why reply at

[@bettywoop575]

@@danielpavlides3753so old bob can feel superior on the internet for a second before rational people put him in his place

[@ericsaldivar8235]

I'VE LIVED IN DALLAS SENCE 1977 AN IT'S STILL THE SAME AN ITS 2024 ' GOD BLESS ALL PEOPLE THAT HAVE LOST SOMEONE TO DRUGS AN GANGS ' LOST MY FATHER TO DRUGS SO I KNOW THE PAIN '

[@schoc13]

the police seem like they are doing something about, drug raids but it’s the brothas with one good eye in the front and back for lookouts

[@kendrickbell8525]

Being from houston i went to Paul Quinn College my freshman year in 2004 it was my first time in dallas, didn't know it was like that back then. When i took my SAT at SMU it was like a different world.😏

[@ttacking_you]

Well, yeah compared to HOUSTON!? 😳You might as well have flown in from fallujah. RIP if you're no longer with us ? _8days in Houston smh_

[@kendrickbell8525]

@@ttacking_you 🤔

[@lorenzo2534]

Imagine the Opioid Drug problem 😳 Documentaries that will come out in the future as this issue did . 😮😮😮

[@alanpowers5307]

That black guy at the end of this is a stud. Taking pictures and harassing the drug dealers as well getting on camera is the way the black community needs to respond. He is a very honorable man and what exemplifies a leader

[@edreynolds8721]

That's how you know these dealers were just trying to make ends meet and make fast money. If he did that in NYC or LA back then, he'd disappear.

[@ianwilson4483]

@@edreynolds8721Of course because The Police and Politicians in NYC and LA work with The Drug Dealers.

[@firesidecookie]

Dope channel, appreciate the content lol

[@helium5912]

black panther wannabes.

[@jovijohnson5418]

What changed nothing nothing change and will never change

[@dallastx214]

Also, the problem wasnt only in S Dallas.....it was PG, OAK CLIFF and NW DALLAS.

[@josephmichael214]

dude in the video said it was the whole city. Can’t forget west side or oed

[@dallastx214]

@@josephmichael214 yes sir

[@arnoldgarzajr1164]

What about Far Northeast Dallas the Skillman St and Audelia Dr plus Forest Ln area.There is alot of gun homicides in that part of Dallas.The violence in Dallas is bad

[@dallastx214]

​@@arnoldgarzajr1164yes sir, Audelia and Forest.

[@LeahDyson-kq4bd]

They'll be fine they have Jesus

[@jlemaire9418]

Really cool. Ty

[@Imstillaround9x19]

I’ve been waiting for new 1990s news and 1980s and 1970s 1960s too sometime s

[@southernscythe2494]

You can still see people doing lines on the bar. I saw it last night.

[@choppertimberland139]

Where at? 😂

[@christianrodriguez932]

Bro this is a wonderful documentary. How much the city has changed it’s amazing in the inner city seeing black people in suits and speaking intelligently. Having pride in there community, man unfortunately those days are gone you couldn’t do the same type of interview today different class of people. You can hear the education in there voice

[@timeghost82]

Nothing has changed. Dallas is a cartel hub. A city of vice. White high school is where that heroin/cheese epidemic started.

[@user-mx7hg9sx4p]

Great documentary ❗🔥💯👍

[@Stacey_-bf2mb]

I was there back then. Shit was crazy bruh!

[@jamesrobertson4115]

Me too. Class of 94 Lincoln with Dr. Lewis, RIP

[@punchabunchofbuttons214]

That first bust was at the old Jordans supermarket off of bruton and peachtree.

[@dallastx214]

It wasn't just 1990 the drug war was happening here.

[@southerncross179]

I lived in Dallas for a long time, I remember these times. The police and the feds didn't do anything until the white kids started dropping like flies. The drugs hit the city of Plano hard, back then Plano was the place to live.

[@billjohnson2081]

Crazy how much cocaine use there was in the 80s and into the early 90s.

[@lorenzo2534]

It's now opioids

[@edreynolds8721]

Yeah, crack faded out but coke pretty much stayed the same. It's just on the down low, not like it was in the 80's.

[@peeweetv6095]

Do houston 80s drugs war

[@RonaldWalters-yj5uu]

They got one. It's called "hard hit Houston" it's about fifth Ward the bloody nickel. National geographic did it.

[@peeweetv6095]

I know I seen it I'm talking about one from the 80s I'm trying to see what was houston like doing the 80s war on drug's

[@kevinventura546]

Wasn’t there a cop working with a drug pin that would give him information on other sellers, and they would have a brick of sheet rock and just a bit of core for ‘testing’ until they went back and checked them and found it was Sheetrock and they were leaving real dope in some place so when they would go to ‘test’ a bit it would come out positive?

[@kobethakilla]

Damn dirty af smh

[@user-mb5zd1pl3x]

Yep

[@txheatdvd]

Great article Dallas born and raised! Miller Park! Mcduff's stand up

[@jonwilson9280]

@19:00 they weren’t outsmarted it’s called corruption and getting a heads up on the raid but I’m sure they already know this.

[@cpkbullet87]

In the early 90s we had a gang war going on, some days gun shots in the day but every night, their were too many gunshots to count, every five to ten minutes someone would shoot followed by 20 or 30 other people shooting, mostly people shooting in the air but many were drive bys,at that time San Antonio was drive by capital, just on my street almost every other house was shot at . I don't think things are nearly as bad as back then..p.s. I used to listen to the gun shots to get me to sleep for school the next day 😅

[@kobethakilla]

damn I aint kno san antonio was like that back then. ...I knew a girl who stayed down there and my military potna stay there now....he did say the east side was bad down there .But I never knew it was like that in the 90's. I thought it just got bad recently.

[@happydayz7857]

When my family visited the Dallas aquarium in 94-95 the streets were a ghost town. On a nice spring weekend. A black man held up his middle finger as we walked towards him. When he passed I looked behind us, he was holding up his middle finger behind his back. We are white. Haven’t been back since.

[@edreynolds8721]

That's nothing, look at what goes on today.

[@happydayz7857]

@@edreynolds8721 lol I wrote it off in the 90’s so I’m not interested in checking out what’s happening there today.

[@yoremothra9838]

Haha, a similar incident happened to my brother and his son a couple of years back. He was so confused, I told him, "next time, don't look"

[@LeahDyson-kq4bd]

I knew it was Frontline when I heard the music

[@schoc13]

‘The environment came to me”

[@danteduck9518]

3:07 rip chuy dawg 😢 buddy looked just like my boy chuy.

[@b.r2715]

Dope af

[@Thomas-ry8xq]

Brave lady.

[@spidermight8054]

Right of the bat, the caught Tex Cobb!

[@huemann7637]

And then they won the war on drugs and everyone lived happily ever after.

[@TheMinus3]

Oh damn

[@jamesrobertson4115]

South Dallas Texas!!!

[@RustyCrawford-cc1zy]

Is downtown brown town

[@AbstactStrokez]

I'm from Dallas. Go visit Garland Texas. You know these towns that people get trapped in? That's Garland

[@LuisPerez-ok6qi]

i live in shout Dallas, nothing has changed still shots every night😂😂

[@punchabunchofbuttons214]

51:27 is a fact i feel ya my boy.

[@TommyWantWingys80]

What's crackalackin foo

[@robertyoung7823]

People need Jesus and they need to pray for the people that they find God. That's the only way people God bless everyone

[@ttacking_you]

Pssh Praying doesn't replace crack cocaine!? Make a comparison? Getting high is crazy

[@robertyoung7823]

@@ttacking_you you want a comparison. 30 years shooting heroin into my arm ,23 years in prison, Bank robbery possession of fire arms. Oh the 23 years was straight no in and outs. I know what I'm talking about. Find God, because when you go before him his going to ask, what happened to you.

[@GODSOFFOOTBALLGOLD]

Racial tensions never changed😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Castleheights20s]

The city office is the blame

[@BrewedSoda]

To the people: Do you think there will be another drug war at the same rate as the 80's and 90's were?

[@frankmurphy7234]

No there's too many white addicts

[@billjohnson2081]

Hard to say. There will have to be another drug as popular and addictive as cocaine was at that time, and there would have to be another 1980s style economic boom along with it. There was rapid growth in the professional classes and the downtown business districts in which they worked in 1980s that was, in part, due to the computer revolution and the transition of the US economy to a service-sector economy. For rising professionals and nouveau riche, cocaine was the drug of choice; it had a glamorous side to it. Compare that to meth and fentanyl today, which are seen as lower-class drugs. Cocaine had a lower-class derivative (crack), but the cocaine craze was about more than lower-class people who wanted crack. Cocaine is also a stimulant, and today lots of people can legally obtain stimulants (For their "attention deficit hyperactive disorders"). High-powered professionals still snort cocaine to power through their work and days, but many more now take ADHD meds instead. That does take away some of the demand. Cocaine is distribution is also potentially very lucrative due to: (1) cocaine's short-lasting effects (which requires you to keep snorting/smoking it to stay high) and (2) the fact that you can cut (dilute) it with other agents, which allows you turn the cocaine you bought wholesale (as a dealer) into more cocaine to be sold than you paid for - very profitable for you, the dealer. And the weaker the cocaine you sell, the more the user has to ingest to get high. Then you also have to consider what was happening on the lower end of the economy during the 1980s. The jobs and incomes for the professional classes were booming, but the 80s were also an era of high interest rates and continuing deindustrialization and a continuation of the decline of employment in industry for a lot of the working classes. Many of the people who formerly were part of the working class fell into the lower class, and either (1) turned to selling drugs to try to get out of the lower class, or (2) became users of drugs, and joined the ranks of the people who could have climbed out of the lower class and into the working class, but who now could not because there were fewer of those kinds of jobs to go around, and those people were also turning towards selling/using drugs (excluding the criminal class, who would have been doing that stuff anyways). There was a demand for drugs like cocaine not just from people who were flush with cash and who wanted to party and/or work hard, but also from people who had an incentive to use drugs as an escape from their condition. That was the demand side of the equation. Then there was also the supply side. The cocaine had to come from somewhere, and in the 1980s there was lots of cocaine being produced in Latin America for distribution in the American market. There was a wave of left-wing revolutionary activity in Latin America in the 1980s, which led to: (1) a breakdown of law and order in the affected countries; (2) revolutionary groups who wanted to raise funds for their activities through drug distribution; (3) counter-revolutionary groups who wanted to raise funds for their activities through drug distribution; and (4) farmers and landowners (often also the counterrevolutionaries) who wanted to get rich from a crop ideally suited to Latin America's climate. Once some began to make money from the sale of cocaine, others wanted to join in, and the interests that came to control the production then bribed and corrupted the governments there to look the other way. So there was lots of demand and lots of supply, and therefore a great deal of profit to be made. But cocaine was illegal (because it is both addictive and potentially lethal), so the suppliers and distributors of this product couldn't settle their disputes in court, like normal business people; they had to settle their disputes over territory with violence. The violence unsettled people and there were demands from the public for law enforcement to put a stop to the violence and the trade in cocaine. Hence, the drug war. Of course, once that got started, law enforcement kept asking for more money to fight the drug win, but neve really set out to win it, or end it. It's not really over. But the reason why it is no longer at its peak is that they economy is better for the lower classes, there are substitutes for the upper classes, which reduced the demand, and because a lot of the gangsters who formerly would have been selling it are now dead. So there's a things that would have to change for a drug war like the 80s and 90s drug war to happen again. Maybe some chemist somewhere will cook up a new drug that pleasurable, fast-acting, with short high, and which does not mess you up quite as bad drugs like meth and heroin, but still with a reason to keep it illegal. Then we could have another drug war. On the other hand, everyone is now addicted to their phones, so there's no time to party and do drugs these days.

[@hendo337]

There is right now, it never stopped. The government created this black market where cartels, organized crime and gangs control the market for substances that are not a criminal issue, they're a medical issue, drug use was turned into a taboo, rebellious and highly profitable thing feeding numerous rackets from all sides, if it was legal and regulated. It would just be sad and pathetic and there would be less crime over night, street gangs would have no reason to exist, half the prisons wouldn't be required anymore, 70% of the law enforcement, prison, courts, probation, parole and mandatory court ordered rehab funding would simply dry up, the cartels would be out of business, the illegals pouring over the border would be safe and productive in their own countries, political corruption at high levels would be disposed of in a massive way. They created these stupid laws because they wanted a reason to destroy the quality of life for the poor and the brown. They wanted to be able to nullify someones civil rights because they took or sold a substance. After I ver 50 years of this since Nixon and over 100 since the original laws that created black market for alcohol and narcotics, they amended the Constitution to prohibit alcohol and they never did for other substances which makes the laws unconstitutional. Imagine what society could have accomplished if all this misery had been avoided and instead of wasting all this money and effort we had taken steps to improve the things that created the conditions where people are uneducated and apathetic that they turn to abusing substance were reversed...the government did all that a to those poor black people, locked up generations of people, broke up families, drive people onto welfare roles, killed black businesses, no wonder they have adopted the "ghetto" culture, they are willing to accept anything that the media portrays as being against this system.

[@hendo337]

​@@billjohnson2081you obviously don't know anything, fentanyl and meth are rampant all over the country and killing thousands of people. The crime is off the charts. It's just not as sensationalized now because the media doesn't want to admit that poor rural people exist much less give them a victim status. That's reserved for special groups now.

[@theblackmoth1111]

It’s a new cut drug out there called Fentanyl that makes it entirely new ball game. It’s now skid row camps nearly in every city now. Homelessness has an underlying drug addiction or grow the habit.Just a different phase of a new drug era. Mexico drug wars still go on. Now drug wars mixed with gang wars in the US. Now it is the addiction war. Or crisis .

[@JasonLee-lv7tm]

This war has been a waste of time since day 1

[@anthonylara5945]

This was the 1980s not 1990s

[@markzucker3949]

Very nice Jamaican Flag kitchen paint job.

[@Thomas-ry8xq]

End the insane war on drugs.

[@eddienash2095]

@12:15 "They see a cop coming and send codewords...Theres no way to surprise them" How about not driving marked cars where you know the dealers are located...

[@gowt103]

1st!.... apparently thats the cool thing to say....

[@user-sz8km9dy5v]

Cringe 😬

[@154g]

😂😂😂

[@user-qc1ci3if7k]

l remember

[@BrewedSoda]

To the people: Would you consider the 80' and 90's as the (drug) era of the "Walking Dead", or 2000's and todays (technology) era as the "Walking Dead"?

[@edreynolds8721]

Today, you never saw people licking sidewalks back then or eating people's faces.

[@schoc13]

the lady W@ 32:02 claims she makes 100k per yr, really??

[@schoc13]

seems like they are blaming the police, blame the drug dealers and the people who buy the drugs!!!

[@schoc13]

Cane, do you want to live or die?

[@layparisss]

Change the video Title to Dallas 2024 🤭

[@mozogao]

Four minutes in and I’ve rolled my eyes 6 times. Gonna be dizzy by the time the videos through. The people fighting “drugs” are so lame you can’t help just wanting to do them.

[@jsjones418]

South Dallas still the same lol

[@hobartw9770]

The great Crackademic, before the clear stuff came along.

[@jamesmarkov9570]

13:52

[@humanipulationnation]

Great documentary about the goons

[@WESDALLASTEXBOI]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@9chilidog]

People: Give us police, we need somebody to help us with this drug problem Police: OK we're patrolling more, and pushing back against these drug pushers People: Das racist

[@IH8Sprinkles]

It’s because they use racist cops and target everyone not just drug dealers

[@user-os5fz8sd9v]

Lol this aint nothing set up too show white man as bad im from Boynton an im white the only truth is how hospitable and nice the black people where all througg until 2004

[@rob1279]

Avoid the new kid at school. So what they sold a bit of weed. It goes on at every school.

[@LuisPerez-ok6qi]

i live in shout Dallas, nothing has changed still shots every night😂😂