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Title: To Protect and to Serve: The Lapd's Century of War in the City of Dreams by Joe Domanick ISBN: 0-671-75111-5 Publisher: Pocket Star Pub. Date: November, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.56 (9 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Paranoia strikes deep.
Comment: From the moment Domanick describes the families of police academy graduates as having the look of the "Orange county chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving," you know he's got an axe to grind. And he grinds it with undisguised bias for 430 pages. Even the captions to the B/W photos tell you he's got his agenda. Beneath a picture of the first LAPD chopper he writes, "Worshipping the god of technology." Gee, Joe, how about just getting there faster to find people who shoot ten year olds off their bikes. And then laugh about it with their homies. And stuff like hispanics gangsters who "laugh about the suffering they'd inflicted like dead-eyed cops over beers?" Bias as wide as the 405 and longer than the San Andreas fault. And in 430 pages, not a single mention of the Mexican Mafia, a criminal organization that puts a couple of hundred Latinos in graves every year. A lot of them kids and moms hit by stray bullets. And his take is that the fate of South Central was sealed with the arrival of "impoverished Mexicans" and Salvadorans fleeing civil war and "American-trained death squads." Right. They were so terrorized by American oppression back home that by the millions they voted with their feet to come to America, the very heart of the oppressor. Give us a break, Joe. Your paranoia is showing. Let's recap, shall we. The LAPD is evil. The US government is oppressive. Conservatives want to barbecue black babies. Reagan invented AIDS. And oh, yeah, the CIA dumps crack by the truckload in Compton. You know, just for laughs. Go with Lou Cannon's Official Negligence. Real reporting. No Axe.
Rating: 5
Summary: Superb Investigative Journalism
Comment: This engrossing history of the Los Angeles Police Department is well worth reading, not only as a study of what is good and bad about the development of modern American police methods, but as a detailed view of the history of Los Angeles. This is one non-fiction book that is hard to put down. A great read!
My impression, contrary to some of the reviews posted here, is that Joe Domanick has focused on the facts and is not pursuing a political agenda. Much of what he says has been proven by recent events and makes sense in the light of the Rodney King case and its aftermath, as well as the O.J. case. His criticism is focused on the leadership and structure of the LAPD, rather than on characterizing individual officers as inherently bad. Ignore the right-wing screeds and give this book a try.
Rating: 2
Summary: Good Historical Information...but.....
Comment: I gave this book 2 stars only because the historical information was well-researched and interesting. I did like reading about training, etc. from "back in the day". But...the biggest problem I have with this book is that the writer's anti-police attitude keeps getting in the way. If he doesn't like the LAPD, that's fine, it's his opinion, but such antics as writing sarcastic comments about "the look" of police officer's familes really left a bad taste in my mouth. I bought this book thinking it would be an "objective" history of the LAPD. I was greatly disappointed by Domanick's constant tirades that painted all LAPD officers with the same brush.
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Title: Official Negligence : How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD by Lou Cannon ISBN: 0813337259 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Danger, Duty & Disillusion: The Worldview of Los Angeles Police Officers by Joan C. Barker ISBN: 1577660412 Publisher: Waveland Press Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward ISBN: 074325547X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 19 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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