Then Came Nixon

Tags: Media and Culture, The Police State, U.S. History

09/20/2017 Chris Calton

Season 1, Episode 7. In this episode, Chris Calton explains how the Nixon Administration kicked off the modern War on Drugs, featuring no knock raids, fictional crime stats, and the expansion of the American police state.

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