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Lädt ... Official Negligence : How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPDvon Lou Cannon
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"Spring 1992, and the City of Angels was suddenly a modern hell. During five terrifying days, as the world watched in horror, the deadliest urban rioting of the twentieth century laid waste to South Central Los Angeles. But there's a hidden story behind the riots. Lou Cannon, who covered Los Angeles for The Washington Post before, during, and after the violence, has exhaustively interviewed the survivors and learned the definitive story of just what happened and why. Official Negligence takes us behind the scenes at City Hall and at police headquarters, inside jury rooms, onto the front lines of the violence in the streets, and into the hearts and minds of unknown heroes and tells, for the first time, a riveting tale of multiple injustices, mismanagements, and misjudgments." "Official Negligence illuminates all the characters and events surrounding what went wrong in Los Angeles. In so doing, it lays bare the ethnic, racial, and economic fault lines that divide American society at the approach of the millennium."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Mr. Cannon guides the reader through a morass of complicated interlinked beliefs and values that made up the LAPD culture at that time. The issue is not whether one agrees with or disagrees with the way the culture of LAPD was, the important point is the in depth explanation of why it was the way it was.
For those who want to better understand police culture this is a must read. It is too bad that the book was not a better seller. Perhaps it wass timing, many had simply grown weary of Mr. King.
* I was interviewed extensively for this book and that is why I know Mr. Cannon was through, accurate and fair. ( )