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- catalog abstract "Los Angeles has one of the nation's most controversial police departments. In the fall of 1998, still reeling from the Rodney King and O.J. Simpson debacles, the LAPD took a far more damaging hit when officer Rafael Perez implicated over seventy fellow officers -- members of the elite Rampart street-crimes unit -- in a conspiracy of robbery, brutality, drug dealing, false imprisonment, and allegedly murder. Now award-winning journalist Randall Sullivan delivers a masterpiece of reportage that reveals how members of the LAPD became caught up in the violent world of Suge Knight and his Death Row Records rap empire. Labyrinth shows how officers became gangsters, and how officials at the highest levels covered it up. Sullivan has had unprecedented access to Russell Poole, the upright homicide detective whose investigation into two of hip-hop's most infamous unsolved crimes -- the murders of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. -- led him straight into the darkest corners of his own police force. Labyrinth introduces such renegade officers as Kevin Gaines, killed by fellow cop Frank Lyga after he threatened Lyga's life; Rafael Perez, who, in retaliation, may have attempted to frame Lyga for drug theft; and David Mack, the highly decorated officer and former Olympic-class track athlete who orchestrated one of the biggest bank heists in Los Angeles history. LAbyrinth is the first book to break down powerful walls of silence raised by an internal-affairs department and a police chief who protected criminal cops in order to avoid making waves in a city torn by racial politics and legalistic intrigue. It is an epic true story of the brutal men who ruled the nation's meanest streets and a nonflinching expose of the incredible reasons why they were not stopped.".
- catalog contributor b12477006.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]).".
- catalog description "Los Angeles has one of the nation's most controversial police departments. In the fall of 1998, still reeling from the Rodney King and O.J. Simpson debacles, the LAPD took a far more damaging hit when officer Rafael Perez implicated over seventy fellow officers -- members of the elite Rampart street-crimes unit -- in a conspiracy of robbery, brutality, drug dealing, false imprisonment, and allegedly murder. Now award-winning journalist Randall Sullivan delivers a masterpiece of reportage that reveals how members of the LAPD became caught up in the violent world of Suge Knight and his Death Row Records rap empire. Labyrinth shows how officers became gangsters, and how officials at the highest levels covered it up. Sullivan has had unprecedented access to Russell Poole, the upright homicide detective whose investigation into two of hip-hop's most infamous unsolved crimes -- the murders of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. -- led him straight into the darkest corners of his own police force. Labyrinth introduces such renegade officers as Kevin Gaines, killed by fellow cop Frank Lyga after he threatened Lyga's life; Rafael Perez, who, in retaliation, may have attempted to frame Lyga for drug theft; and David Mack, the highly decorated officer and former Olympic-class track athlete who orchestrated one of the biggest bank heists in Los Angeles history. LAbyrinth is the first book to break down powerful walls of silence raised by an internal-affairs department and a police chief who protected criminal cops in order to avoid making waves in a city torn by racial politics and legalistic intrigue. It is an epic true story of the brutal men who ruled the nation's meanest streets and a nonflinching expose of the incredible reasons why they were not stopped.".
- catalog description "Prologue -- pt. I. The race card -- pt. II. Death row inmates -- pt. III. Natural leads -- pt. IV. Inventing the scandal -- pt. V. Heat from a cold case -- Epilogue -- Labyrinth roster -- Time line -- Documents -- Bibliography/recommended reading.".
- catalog extent "324, [1] p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0871138387".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Atlantic Monthly Press,".
- catalog spatial "California Los Angeles".
- catalog subject "364.15/23/0979494 21".
- catalog subject "HV6534.L7 S848 2002".
- catalog subject "Knight, Suge.".
- catalog subject "Murder California Los Angeles Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Notorious B.I.G. (Musician)".
- catalog subject "Notorious B.I.G., 1972-1997.".
- catalog subject "Police corruption California Los Angeles Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Police misconduct California Los Angeles Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Shakur, Tupac, 1971-1996.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue -- pt. I. The race card -- pt. II. Death row inmates -- pt. III. Natural leads -- pt. IV. Inventing the scandal -- pt. V. Heat from a cold case -- Epilogue -- Labyrinth roster -- Time line -- Documents -- Bibliography/recommended reading.".
- catalog title "LAbyrinth : a detective investigates the murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G., the implication of Death Row Records' Suge Knight, and the origins of the Los Angeles Police scandal / Randall Sullivan.".
- catalog type "Case studies. fast".
- catalog type "text".