Articles liés à Vice: One Cop's Story of Patrolling America's...

Vice: One Cop's Story of Patrolling America's Most Dangerous City - Couverture rigide

Baker, John R.; Rivele, Stephen J.

 
9780312596873: Vice: One Cop's Story of Patrolling America's Most Dangerous City
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0312596871 ISBN 13 : 9780312596873
Editeur : St Martin's Press, 2011

Synopsis

Compton: the most violent and crime-ridden city in America. What had been a semi-rural suburb of Los Angeles in the 1950s became a battleground for the Black Panthers and Malcolm X Foundation, the home of the Crips and Bloods and the first Hispanic gangs, and the cradle of gangster rap. At the centre of it, trying to maintain order was the Compton Police Department, never more than 130-strong, and facing an army of criminals that numbered over 10,000. At any given time, fully one-tenth of Compton's population was in prison, yet this tidal wave of crime was held back by the thinnest line of the law - the Compton Police. John R. Baker was raised in Compton, eventually becoming the city's most decorated officer involved in some of its most notorious, horrifying and scandalous criminal cases. Baker's account of Compton from 1950 to 2001 is one of the most powerful and compelling cop memoirs ever written - an intensely human account of sacrifice and public service, and the price the men and women of the Compton Police Department paid to preserve their city.

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Compton: the most violent and crime-ridden city in America. What had been a semi-rural suburb of Los Angeles in the 1950s became a battleground for the Black Panthers and Malcolm X Foundation, the home of the Crips and Bloods and the first Hispanic gangs, and the cradle of gangster rap. At the centre of it, trying to maintain order was the Compton Police Department, never more than 130-strong, and facing an army of criminals that numbered over 10,000. At any given time, fully one-tenth of Compton s population was in prison, yet this tidal wave of crime was held back by the thinnest line of the law the Compton Police. John R. Baker was raised in Compton, eventually becoming the city s most decorated officer involved in some of its most notorious, horrifying and scandalous criminal cases. Baker s account of Compton from 1950 to 2001 is one of the most powerful and compelling cop memoirs ever written an intensely human account of sacrifice and public service, and the price the men and women of the Compton Police Department paid to preserve their city.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
St Martin's Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0312596871
ISBN 13 
9780312596873
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
416
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible