This book is no conspiracy theory; it's a hard core, true life look inside one of the world's largest police forces, delivered by an LAPD detective with decades of experience who worked in one of the department's most esteemed and mysterious units. If you think America's police are trustworthy and honest, you should read this book. It is scary, not to mention disheartening stuff, revealing how the police often times become nothing more than bullies, liars, and in some cases murderers, after they don their badge and put on their uniform. If nothing else the book is a powerful testament to the truth that absolute power absolutely corrupts, and we cannot rely on law enforcement to police itself. We must effect citizen oversight committees to investigate and guide our PDs--and other law enforcement agencies, at every level--or risk gradually, but certainly, moving toward a militarized, police state.
Perhaps the most fascinating look into the heart of LA's Secret Police is the view of Daryl Gates, LAPD's chief of police for many rocky, scandalous years, and how he maintained a full squadron of LAPD detectives whose primary job was to spy on the powerful and elite of California--such as Mayor Tom Bradley, the sheriff of Los Angeles County, newspaper reporters with the LA Times, actors, and other officials. His primary motivation for all this nonsense was to collect "dirt" on these people in case he needed to exert control over them (in others words, in case a reporter wanted to write a story about the department or its leadership that might be viewed as negative).
It's all incredible stuff that will leave you stunned, but educated, as to the inner workings of power and how it can be abused.
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The most shocking story of the LAPD. I will never look at any police force the same. The question of is this happening in your town today 2018 or maybe your local law enforcement is one surrounded by the true blue and not the badge wearing Nazi officers in LAPD. Who are going to trust for protection if not police. Bad boys bad boys coming for you might be wearing blue.
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