Vice: One Cop's Story of Patrolling America's Most Dangerous City
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.49 (718 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312596871 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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(Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. Along with his fellow officers, Baker was more often than not outnumbered on the streets by criminals, but describes a police force dedicated to protecting the community, even if that means doling out some unorthodox, Compton-style justice. . He joins the Compton Police Department in 1968 after earning a sociology degree and serving in the Marine Corps, hoping to fulfill his need for adventure and serve his town. From Publishers Weekly Born and raised in Compton, the city in L.A. All rights reserved. Baker recounts the racial shift in Compton beginning in the late 1950s as "white flight" began and the area became predominantly black, though by the TKTKs Hispanics became the majority--and the rise
10,000 criminals. A riveting memoir by Baker, California’s most-decorated police officer Compton: the most violent and crime-ridden city in America. At the center 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. 9 square miles. John R. 130 cops. 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. 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. 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.. 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 gan
and later I had joined so that's why I like it very much my brothers nick names was pineapple Amazon Customer I'm originally from Hawaii but move to Compton 1960 I was 5yrs old then lived there till I was in my teens all step brothers grew up there they where from the Gang 155 and later I had joined so that's why I like it very much my brothers nick names was pineapple & coconut and my other 2 brothers saber & Hanky I was called johnnyBoy that's whyI . "Very good, a real page turner" according to Ralf K.. Very good, a real page turner. Describes different types of police work as well as the gang culture in Compton, CA, and the special way they had to deal with it in that city.. "Good read" according to Amazon Customer. Interesting perspective. A little slow in the middle but an excellent ending . Too bad police work wasn't still like this