Baltimore is one of the cities with the highest rate of intravenous drug use in the nation, so it’s the place that has sort of landed at one end of the extreme in terms of the drug war. Before we go to DeAndre, let’s turn to David Simon.ĭavid, tell us a little about your book, The Corner.ĭAVID SIMON: In a way, I think it’s about the logical consequence and, in some sense, the endgame for the drug war. His name is DeAndre McCullough, and his story is written about in a new book by David Simon and Edward Burns called The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood. And so today we thought we would sit back and have a conversation with one person who lives in one corner of one city neighborhood in this country. Well, Election Day is over, and politicians will now go on vacations after stumping around their cities, their areas on many issues, one of them the issue of drugs and crime. AMY GOODMAN: You’re listening to Pacifica Radio’s Democracy Now!: The Exception to the Rulers.
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