Skip to main content

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Preferred term

Tulia drug sting  

Definition

  • Early in the morning of July 23, 1999, dozens of arrests occurred in the town of Tulia, a small town in the Texas panhandle. As part of a drug sting operation, police raided homes and arrested people, most of whom had no idea what was going on, why they were being arrested, or what crime they were supposed to have committed. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race and Crime; Tulia, Texas, Drug Sting]

Broader concept

Belongs to group

URI

https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Tulia_drug_sting

Download this concept: