A scathing indictment of the Los Angeles Police Department and its role in the Rodney King case. An ex-marine and ex-cop reveals the difficult truths he discovered and enormous changes he underwent in his two-year investigation of police misconduct in L.A. 8-page photo insert. This description may be from another edition of this product.
This book doesn't pull any punches in reporting the facts surrounding the Rodney King case, the incident that led to it, and what happened afterward. As a former LAPD officer and a private investigator, the book's author, Tom Owens gives an objective look at one of the most contraversial cases in our nation's history, reporting the facts that he collected.
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I was generally glued to this book, although the technicalities of the workings of the LAPD left me lost or vacant, at times. I had the rare occasion to work with the author for six weeks during an Army public relations tour in Nicaragua, and his insights into life in the LAPD and life, as a cop, in general, furthered to set the stage for the book. Tom Owens is a well-read, knowledgeable man in workings of life as a...
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A Taste of reality, set in the days of Mississippi, and for the southern states. Man's Inhumanity to Man kind.
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