Inside A Crack House: US Drug Gangs Exposed (True Crime Documentary) | Real Stories

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Published 2021-03-28
Inside A Crack House: US Drug Gangs Exposed (True Crime Documentary) | Real Stories

In the summer of 2005, federal agents and police in Rockford, Illinois, captured over a thousand hours of surveillance footage inside a crack house. The gang smokes marijuana, plays with guns, and sells crack and heroin for six weeks, completely unaware that their every move is being recorded.

Customers come and go, unaware that their private lives are being revealed. This is an intimate portrait of a crack house's rise and fall, as well as a drug-addled American urban culture. Interviews with gang members, their friends, and police disclose the unavoidable tragedy - and the occasional dark humour - of a reality that exists underneath the surface of any major community.

From Crack House USA

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All Comments (21)
  • If only the government can keep this same energy with rapist and killers. 42 years for drug dealing (which is bad) but rapist getting 10 years make it make sense.
  • @hicstudios
    I love how I come to the comments expecting a lot of negative stuff about the video but only see everyone loving grandma! We love u grandma 👵🏽
  • @RandyStoker1964
    That grandma trying to clean up the house for her grandson to come home to one day… My heart broke for her.
  • Grandma said you don’t have any friends out there, I’m your friend. How true that is.
  • I feel bad for the girlfriend with the 2 children. She looks extremely depressed and lost. It looks hard in the US to be a single Mum in poverty a real struggle. I hope things work out for her and her children 🙏 Also the Grandma is a legend and we need more people like this but unfortunately they don't seem to make many people like her no more.
  • @jemjarvs
    Everyone needs a grandmother like that. What a very wise, wonderful and loving woman.
  • @sblount4206
    The Grandmother was the best part of this documentary. She's strong and proud even though some family members fell victim to the streets. I hope that she's still alive. Blessings to her always.
  • Can't watch this as a black man I grew up in the same neighborhood, I just refused too say in that hood best decision I made. There's a whole world out there.
  • @philelliott9362
    "he only got 30 years left granny?" Broke my heart. God bless you all.
  • @j23lo5
    Omg the way the grandma describes the food she had. I could listen to her all day. Shes such a shining light 😊
  • How that grandmother has kept her loving and decent heart in this brutal inhuman world of ours is beyond me. She is an exemplary person, wide awake to life's tragedies & pain yet able to survive with her spirit intact. Bless her. May she have a long & happy life watching her grandbabies thrive & follow in her extraordinary footsteps.
  • @mikekane3345
    what the son said at the end broke my heart. the pure innocence of not knowing the severity of his fathers jail time. "HE ONLY GOT WHAT, THIRTY YEARS LEFT?" To all of my fellow black men, let us break these generational curses, and call on god in time of despair - AMEN
  • @kiara198923
    My younger brother was murdered so that he couldn't testify for my oldest brother.. this was around 2006/2007.. My oldest brother was given 4 life sentences which he could've avoided if only he had spoken up... The tears in my eyes as I sat there and heard him say you may as well just handcuff me because I'm not snitching... He should've been here. I have sickle cell disease. If anything I needed him. If I hadn't come out of that 5 day coma he would be filled with guilt & regret. Despite all of that I'm in school for medical billing & coding which I have 2 courses left on but I have degrees prior to what I'm studying now plus I work for doordash. It sucks... I basically lost 2 brothers because I'll never see either one of them again.
  • The lady who helped set these guys up kept saying “I did it for my kids I wasn’t going to choose them over my kids”. Funny how they became really important when it was time to save her own skin.
  • As a former addict, I can relate to most of this video!! I thank God every single day I got out alive 11 years ago!! 🙏🏽🙌🏽👊🏽💪🏽 Only a person that has walked in the shoes of an addict or a dealer/trafficker, can really understand the power of the drugs and the money!! When it gets you in it's grip.. It's nearly impossible to break those chains ⛓️😔 But I'm here to tell you it can be done, and I'm living proof of that!! I'll be 59 on March 11th and my testimony would blow your mind!! Truly a miracle that I'm still here🙏🏽 My heart and prayers go out to every single person trapped in this very dark place, including the families, because they are affected more than most people even realize!!🙏🏽💔 God bless and NEVER GIVE UP HOPE..🙏🏽🙏🏽🙌🏽👑💪🏽💪🏽
  • His grandmother is part of the greatest generation we ever had. Most of us black men and women who are between the ages of 52 and 35 were raised by these great men and women. Salute, it will never be the same.
  • @sweetfaith2011
    I wish I could give this grandmother a hug, she has a beautiful soul. I hope someone helps her with her house,
  • Broke my heart listening to grandma talk about keeping the family home.
  • @s.v.2796
    This is exactly why i lived in places where we all lived in a studio apt but in a good school district. We had no money, less than $20/day for 3 kids and myself to live on. We walked everyplace. Sometimes we collected cans to eat, washed clothes in the bathtub, my kids started working at 14 and 16. For Christmas and birthdays my kids got clothes/books, not bikes, not toys (maybe small ones), no electronic equipment because I was paying rent in a better neighborhood. I was not going to raise my children in a poverty stricten school district with over stressed teachers. And my sons were not going to jail for selling drugs- of that I was determined! And now they are grown with jobs and families. It was rough. But they stayed out of jail, they are healthy, happy. Sometimes the difference is moving a couple of miles away or a little farther, sometimes it's giving up a lot of clothes, toys, fancy stuff. Which is more important.
  • Montrell’s grandmother is an outstanding, strong women who is incredibly wise. You can tell she’s seen so much pain and devastation in her life and she still finds a way to stay positive. The world would be a much better place with more ppl like her walking this 🌎