To Protect and to Serve: The LAPD's Century of War in the City of Dreams
- ISBN-10
- 0671751131
- ISBN-13
- 9780671751135
- Series
- To Protect and to Serve
- Category
- Police
- Pages
- 513
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Author
- Joe Domanick
Description
A history of the Los Angeles Police Department from the thirties to the nineties examines its persistent reputation for brutality and corruption and its role in the devastating riot following the verdict in the trial of Rodney King
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- 2009-06-06
- 230 pages
- Ebook
- Springer Science & Business Media
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