Official Negligence 
Subtitle: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: October 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 748
ISBN-13: 9780813337258
Subjects: Violence (Sociological Aspects); Social Science; Sociology - General; Police-Community Relations; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; United States - State & Local - General; Discrimination & Racism; Political Freedom & Security - Law Enforcement; California; History-United States - State & Local - General; Political Science / Law Enforcement; Social Science-Discrimination & Racism
First sentence: THE LAST THING THE LEADERS OF LOS ANGELES EXPECTED IN THE early 1990s was that their city would become the scene of the nation's deadliest urban race riot since the Civil War.