Vice
Subtitle: one cop's story of patrolling America's most dangerous city
By: John R. Baker with Stephen J. Rivele
Contributors: Rivele, Stephen J., 1949-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780312596873
Subjects: Police; Biography; Crime
Description: A decorated Compton Police Department veteran describes how his career was marked by emerging gang activity, Mafia crimes and minimal resources, in a personal account that reveals his participation in some of the troubled city's most notorious cases.
Table of contents: title: A model community; title: White flight, black rage; title: Part of the uniform: the golden garter; title: Apartheid, de tente, and the great penile duel; title: Rut, Crosby, and the rise of the gangs; title: Panthers, Water Way, and the standoff in Victory Park; title: Bullets in the laundromat, Shondra, and the bomb; title: Rape, politics, and other crimes; title: The service center and the Devil's Disciples; title: Rapunzel, the election, and the pastry chef; title: Miami and the siege of city hall; title: Douglas Dollarhide's chief, Doris Davis's balls, and politics, Compton style; title: Tarzan, a severed head, and the shack; title: Lueders Park, the Olympics, and Mexico; title: The councilman's dilemma, the back door, and the giant; title: A gun to my head, casinos, and Mulberry Street; title: Rut returns, the Sentinel, and the Stinkers; title: The ballet, the hypnotist, and the task force; title: Boot Hill, the chief's mother, and Jack in the Box; title: Richard III, the Stardust, and Orchard Street; title: Gangstas, the Carnival, and the ritual; title: Aftermath; title: Compton Coda.