Operation Fly Trap
Subtitle: gangs, drugs, and the law
By: Susan A. Phillips
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780226667652; 9780226667669
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Drug traffic; Gangs; Drug control; Informers; Case studies; Investigation; Drug enforcement agents; Gang prevention
Description: "In 2003, an FBI-led task force known as Operation Fly Trap attempted to dismantle a significant drug network in two Bloods-controlled, African American neighborhoods in Los Angeles. The operation would soon be considered an enormous success, noted for the precision with which the task force targeted and removed gang members otherwise entrenched in larger communities. In Operation Fly Trap, Susan A. Phillips questions both the success of this operation and the methods used to conduct it. Balancing her roles as even-handed reporter and public scholar, she brings together personal narratives, crime statistics, gang cultural histories, and extensive public policy analysis to reveal multiple flaws within the U.S. criminal justice system, building a powerful argument that many law enforcement policies in fact nurture, rather than prevent, violence in American society."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The game; title: Charlotte's web; title: Broken families; title: Cutting the head off the snake; title: The prosecutor's darling; title: Conclusion: Fruit of the poison tree.