PROTECTORS OF PRIVILEGE Red Squads and Police Repression in Urban America

Donner, Frank

ISBN 10: 0520059514 / ISBN 13: 9780520059511

Published by University of California Press, 1990

About this Item

Binding tight and straight, inner pages clean and unmarked. Dust Jacket is flap-intact, clean with light edgewear, now protected within mylar cover.; 7.6 X 6.3 X 1.5 inches.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: PROTECTORS OF PRIVILEGE Red Squads and Police Repression in Urban America
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520059514
• ISBN 13: 9780520059511
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

This landmark exposé of the dark history of repressive police operations in American cities offers a richly detailed account of police misconduct and violations of protected freedoms over the past century. In an incisive examination of undercover work in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia as well as Washington, D.C., Detroit, New Haven, Baltimore, and Birmingham, Donner reveals the underside of American law enforcement.

About the Author

Frank Donner is a prominent civil liberties attorney and the author of The Un-Americans and The Age of Surveillance.