The Limits of Community Policing: Civilian Power and Police Accountability in Black and Brown Los Angeles, Paperback - Luis Daniel Gascon

DescriptionA critical look at the realities of community policing in South Los AngelesThe Limits of Community Policing addresses conflicts between ...

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 238Collection: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal JusticePublication date: 2017Dimensions: 233 x 156 x...

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A fiercely elegant and wide-ranging history of L.A.'s Dickensian extremes and Pynchonesque conspiraciesNo metropolis has been more loved or more ha...

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