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The documentary 13th focuses on past policies and presidents that have led to a broken criminal justice system. Duvernay focuses on policies made by president and companies such as ALEC throughout the documentary (Privatized corporation for profit prisons). There are many aspects to why the criminal justice system is broken, but the War on Drugs really pushed the corruption. President Richard Nixon created the War on Drugs policy in order to stop drug addiction throughout the United States, instead, the policy gave the authorities a legal way to target minorities. The War on Drugs was implemented 46 years ago by Richard Nixon and is still going to this day. Although Nixon created the law, it really started to come in effect when Ronald Reagan became president. In 1986, Nancy Reagan started the “Just Say No” campaign, an anti-stance throughout the United States. The policy really started to deteriorate when police officers started to abuse the law and started to minorities. The policy was really strict and “nearly 80 …show more content…

According to the article, The Drug War, Mass Incarceration, and Race “ Black people comprise 13 percent of the U.S. population,10 and are consistently documented by the U.S. government to use drugs at similar rates to people of other races.11 But black people comprise 31 percent of those arrested for drug law violations,12 and nearly 40 percent of those incarcerated”. Despite the fact that colored people are minorities in the country still, make up 1/3 of the people arrested because of the drug policy. The policy effective created to target the minorities by making the cocaine the main focus of the drug. “America of the poor, where, amid hopelessness and lack of education, people will suffer the worst consequences of cocaine”(Kerr, 1) which in many poor communities lived the colored minorities, this made it easier for the police officer to target and arrest the

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