Word: schmoke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Newark's Ken Gibson became the first black mayors to fall to challenges from a new generation of black aspirants less interested in national podiums than in the unglamorous day-to-day management of their cities. Many of the new generation of urban leaders, such as Baltimore's Kurt Schmoke, a former prosecutor, have backgrounds in business or the professions. "There is a growing respect for the intractability of urban problems," says analyst Williams. "Some of the new black mayors have learned from the old black mayors not to promise too much...
...Kurt Schmoke, now the Mayor of Baltimore, played quarterback at Yale during the late 1960s but was eventually switched to defensive back...
Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke claims to have "won thousands of convictions for drug-related crimes" during his seven-year career as a prosecutor. But it was he who started much of the furor over legalization by calling for a national debate on the issue in an April speech to the U.S. Conference of Mayors. For drug dealers, says Schmoke, "going to jail is just part of the cost of doing business. It's a nuisance, not a deterrent...
...would disappear as bootleggers did after the repeal of Prohibition; with them would go the current, pervasive corruption of police officers, lawyers, judges and politicians bribed by drug money. Drug dealing would no longer seem to be the only way out of the ghetto for underclass youths. Says Mayor Schmoke: "If you take the profit out of drug trafficking, you won't have young children hiding drugs ((on behalf of pushers)) for $100 a night or wearing beepers to school because it makes more sense to run drugs for someone than to take some of the jobs that are available...
...Schmoke is one of the few elected officials who has dared to swim against the current of the "Say 'No' To Drugs" fervor. He argues that the country might be better by simply conceding the war against drugs and make the best of a bad situation...