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...disparate sentences were Congress's hasty answer to the drug panic that swept America in 1986, following the rapid spread of crack sales through major urban areas. Ironically, it was the cocaine death that summer of Len Bias, a promising basketball player who had recently been drafted by the Boston Celtics, that propelled Congress to act. Then Speaker Tip O'Neill, his ears ringing from the outcry of his Cambridge constituents, pressed House committees for swift antidrug legislation. "We didn't have hearings on this, which is really extraordinary," says Eric Sterling, then counsel to the House Judiciary Committee...
...police officers. Undercover agents found cops ripping off drug dealers, and as many as 29 police officers who were willing to guard a warehouse containing 130 kilos of cocaine during their off-duty hours. They also discovered that one of the officers caught in the drug sting, Len Davis, had allegedly arranged the murder of a woman who had filed a police-brutality complaint against him. "When people heard about the Davis case, there was universal revulsion," says Mary Howell, a civil rights lawyer...
...police officers. Undercover agents found cops ripping off drug dealers, and as many as 29 police officers who were willing to guard a warehouse containing 130 kilos of cocaine during their off-duty hours. They also discovered that one of the officers caught in the drug sting, Len Davis, had allegedly arranged the murder of a woman who had filed a police-brutality complaint against him. "When people heard about the Davis case, there was universal revulsion," says Mary Howell, a civil rights lawyer...
...police officers. Undercover agents found cops ripping off drug dealers, and as many as 29 police officers who were willing to guard a warehouse containing 130 kilos of cocaine during their off-duty hours. They also discovered that one of the officers caught in the drug sting, Len Davis, had allegedly arranged the murder of a woman who had filed a police-brutality complaint against him. "When people heard about the Davis case, there was universal revulsion," says Mary Howell, a civil rights lawyer...
...police officers. Undercover agents found cops ripping off drug dealers, and as many as 29 police officers who were willing to guard a warehouse containing 130 kilos of cocaine during their off-duty hours. They also discovered that one of the officers caught in the drug sting, Len Davis, had allegedly arranged the murder of a woman who had filed a police-brutality complaint against him. "When people heard about the Davis case, there was universal revulsion," says Mary Howell, a civil rights lawyer...