Eras? The “tough on crime” happened when Clinton was in office - whose wife supported him and ran for President in 2016, Trump talking about crime before he was into politics who was the President, and when Biden who is the President was in Congress (ie this is not a Democratic or Republican thing). The same politicians who are in charge now were in charge then.

Today minorities are statistically being given harsher sentences for the same drug crimes than non minorities.