Items

• Attack on Drugs Program
  Letter to Blanchard on expanding drug policies
• Blanchard to Committee on Justice and Public Safety
  Blanchard speaks to the Committee on Justice and Public Safety- 1989
• The Naivety of National Strategy
• Distribution of Funds for the ADA in Michigan
• Coleman Young and William Hart
• DPD Report on Police Requests, 1981 - 1986
• DPD Report on Crime, 1981 - 1986
• Young Discusses ADA and Federal War on Drugs
  In response to a Michigan representative expressing concern about Detroit and the possibility of legalizing drugs in the city, Young discusses Detroit's place in the Federal War on Drugs, as well as the impact made by the 1986 Anti Drug-Abuse Act.
• National Drug Strategy (crop)
• Office of Drug Agencies Memo (crop)
  Memo on drug strategies in Mich
• Young Letter Recommending Drug Testing
  After repeated instances of police drug abuse, Police Chief Hart and Mayor Young went back and forth about whether or not officers should be subjected to random drug screenings.
• Memo to Blanchard on Drug Policy
  A memo from the Office of Substance Abuse Services urging Governor Blanchard to follow Reagan's lead and increase drug policies in Michigan
• Office of Drug Agencies Block Grant Memo
  Memo from John Walker to Don Reisig in regards to increased funding for drug-related efforts
• Drug Sale In Schools, Federal Drug Seizures
  Graphics showing drug sales and use and schools and federal drug seizures
• Federal Drug Seizures 1989
  Graphic of federal drug seizure estimations in 1989 by drug type
• Drug Use and Sale in Schools 1989
  Graphic showing the rates of drug sales and use in schools reported by teens
• Nancy Reagan- Just Say No
  Nancy Reagan at an educational "Just Say No" campaign to discourage drug use among youths.
• Reagan's Address Against Drugs 1986
  In September of 1986, President Ronald Reagan addressing the nation from the white house with respect to his continuing effort and increasing strategies in tackling the war on drugs.
• Larceny Committed by DPD Officers, Memo
  Memorandum from Police Chief Hart to Mayor Coleman Young describing a string of larcenies committed by DPD officers.
• Gun Pulled on Civilians, Memo
  Memorandum from Police Chief Hart to Mayor Coleman Young describing an incident in which an off-duty officer pulled a gun on a civilian during a personal dispute.
• Chambers Brothers Image
  Picture of the Chambers Brothers, head of the infamous Chambers Brothers drug running Gang which corned the market for crack cocaine in the mid- to late-1980s
• DPD Coleman Young Correspondence
  An excerpt from correspondence between DPD and Coleman Young.
• Blanchard Letter to William Bennett
  A letter from Governor James Blanchard to William Bennett regarding Michigan's continuing commitment to the war on drugs