Gangster squad
Subtitle: covert cops, the mob, and the battle for Los Angeles
By: Paul Lieberman
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [Waterville, Me.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 643
ISBN-13: 9781410453440
Subjects: Organized crime; Gangsters; Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Department; Los Angeles (Calif.).; History
Description: A full decade before J. Edgar Hoover's FBI even acknowledged the existence of the Mafia, the Los Angeles Police Department launched the real-life Gangster Squad - eight men who met covertly and slept with Tommy guns while combating what city fathers saw as an "invasion of undesirables." But for two cops, Sgt. Jack O'Mara and Sgt. Jerry Wooters, all that mattered was nailing one strutting little gangster named Mickey Cohen.