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# Read * The Gangs of Los Angeles by William Dunn Ê eBook or Kindle ePUB. The Gangs of Los Angeles It is a fragile place; both tantalizing and repulsive, where wild fires can scorch hill-top celebrity homes as easily as gang members decimate a housing project with automatic rifle fire. There is no gang turf more desperately unique than that hidden among the 464 square miles which make up the City of Los Angeles. From the early Tomato Gangs of 1890's Boyle Heights to the modern Crips and Mara Salvatrucha, with side trips through an Irish Dogtown, the gang wars of "Happy Valley", Sleepy Lagoon
| Title | : | The Gangs of Los Angeles |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.48 (526 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0595443575 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-03 |
| Language | : | English |
A UCLA graduate, Dunn lives near L.A. A former CRASH officer and renowned gang expert, Dunn has instructed law enforcement nationwide regarding the current MS-13 gang epidemic. . About the Author William Dunn is a Detective Sergeant with the Los Angeles Police Department
A former CRASH officer and renowned gang expert, Dunn has instructed law enforcement nationwide regarding the current MS-13 gang epidemic. . A UCLA graduate, Dunn lives near L.A. William Dunn is a Detective Sergeant with the Los Angeles Police Department
"Good Read but Sidetracks" according to William Olmstead. This is a good account of the history of gangs in Los Angeles but also covers New York in the 1800s and ancient Rome, etc. I think more time should have been spent on Los Angeles it self. But the author's coverage of Los Angeles was excellent. I think more on the car club culture of the fifties and early sixti. "Four Stars" according to Amazon Customer. Good history of the growth of LA gangs.. Good history of gang violence in LA, horrible editing With the American Mafia pretty much out of the picture, its having relocated to more white collar Wall Street crime (where there's plenty of company), the spread of gangs in the country's cities and smaller population centers where there's construction or some type of meat processing work to be had has become
It is a fragile place; both tantalizing and repulsive, where wild fires can scorch hill-top celebrity homes as easily as gang members decimate a housing project with automatic rifle fire. There is no gang turf more desperately unique than that hidden among the 464 square miles which make up the City of Los Angeles. From the early Tomato Gangs of 1890's Boyle Heights to the modern Crips and Mara Salvatrucha, with side trips through an Irish Dogtown, the gang wars of "Happy Valley", Sleepy Lagoon and the yellow journalism of the Hearst Press, and a tragic murder at Sunset and Vine, Dunn recounts the events and notorious denizens that spawned LA's gang subculture.Praise for William Dunn's BOOT:"BOOT uses Dunn's stint on the streets to make incisive and invaluable observations about the nation's troubled urban areas and their policing."-Publishers Weekly" Read BOOT by William Dunn for an honest, inside look at the world's most controversial police force."-Joseph Wambaugh, author of Hollywood Station. The Gangs of Los Angeles is a classic, real life account of American crime
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