Answer the following questions A. In what ways did D.C.s black mayors, other elected officials, newspaper media, and the Black Police Caucus embrace the rhetoric and tactics of the federal War on Drugs? How were such ideas and tactics deployed at the local level? B. In particular, how does Operation Clean Sweep exemplify local D.C. officials support for the War on Drugs? What tactics did police use in Operation Clean Sweep? What were their goals? Did they achieve them? C. What were the consequences of embracement of the federal War on Drugs as well as use of Operation Clean Sweep in Washington DC? D. What current sentencing reform efforts are underway in D.C. in response to the citys high incarceration rate? E. Why is Forman supportive and yet skeptical of what he called the nonviolent-offenders only approach to criminal justice reform? What policy reforms does he additionally propose? Reference James Forman, Jr. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America.
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