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Operation Fly Trap
Susan Phillips
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Description for Operation Fly Trap
Hardcover. In 2003, an FBI-led task force known as Operation Fly Trap attempted to dismantle a significant drug network in two Bloods-controlled, African American neighborhoods in Los Angeles. The operation would soon be considered an enormous success. The author questions both the success of this operation and the methods used to conduct it. Num Pages: 168 pages, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JFFH1; JKVG; LNFB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
In 2003, an FBI-led task force known as Operation Fly Trap attempted to dismantle a significant drug network in two Bloods-controlled, African American neighborhoods in Los Angeles. The operation would soon be considered an enormous success, noted for the precision with which the task force targeted and removed gang members otherwise entrenched in larger communities. In "Operation Fly Trap", Susan A. Phillips questions both the success of this operation and the methods used to conduct it. Based on in-depth ethnographic research with Fly Trap participants, Phillips' work brings together police narratives, crime statistics, gang cultural histories, and extensive public policy ... Read more
In 2003, an FBI-led task force known as Operation Fly Trap attempted to dismantle a significant drug network in two Bloods-controlled, African American neighborhoods in Los Angeles. The operation would soon be considered an enormous success, noted for the precision with which the task force targeted and removed gang members otherwise entrenched in larger communities. In "Operation Fly Trap", Susan A. Phillips questions both the success of this operation and the methods used to conduct it. Based on in-depth ethnographic research with Fly Trap participants, Phillips' work brings together police narratives, crime statistics, gang cultural histories, and extensive public policy ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226667652
SKU
V9780226667652
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About Susan Phillips
Susan A. Phillips is assistant professor of environmental analysis at Pitzer College. She is the author of Wallbangin': Graffiti and Gangs in L.A., also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for Operation Fly Trap
"I thoroughly enjoyed reading Operation Fly Trap. The dramatis personae are treated as human beings, and the reader gets a chance to look at them in the flesh: loving, betrayed, strung out, anxious, and more. The book marries the real conditions of poverty, racism, and war with the day-to-day lives of victims and offenders. This is first-class ethnography." -John Hagedorn, ... Read more