Omeka Site
I am going to make an exhibit for my Omeka site. My topic is going to be the time line of how crack became popular, highlighting areas of open use and sale and key players. By making this exhibit, I will be answering the question why crack became the drug of choice to sell/what the consequences were.
Exhibit
Rayful Edmond is the most notorious crack dealer of the 80s in Washington DC. He had a heirarchy of dealers that worked for him. They often sold crack in open air, and millions of dollar. His background story highlights why the selling of crack became so prevalent in Washington DC.
This is an image of Hanover place. This image shows the drive through nature of crack buying/selling in DC. Narrow streets were often used as a place to sell drugs. Hanover place was so popular for the sale of drugs that it would cause traffic jams. Finding a place to buy drugs in DC was not only easy, but well known and the police could do very little to stop it. When drug dealers were arrested, others just stepped into their place and the sale of crack continued.
This statistical representation shows how the murder rate increased from 1985 to 1989. I will probably use this data in order to compare it to the rate of increase of crack cocaine. It appears to be that as the use of crack cocaine increased so did the homicide/crime rates. According to WAMU, homicides increased from 225 to 369 in the span of one year (1988 to 1989); this is a rise of approximately 64 percent.
