CSPAN2 Q A August 9, 2013
To the 200 range declined over about a tenure period and this is part of the crack cocaine epidemic. The Violence Associated with crack cocaine markets, we had 200 markets in the city when shootings would happen and they would be drivebys and six or seven people would be killed in a single incident. As it started to weigh in, if you look at drug patterns, drugs tend to spike in popularity and they remain there about 15 or 16 years. Then they go down. So the epidemic is no more. But its nowhere near what used to be. With the absence of that driving the violence, we got stuck there for a long ti...