Protectors of Privilege: Red Squads and Police Repression in Urban America

Donner, Frank

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ISBN 10: 0520059514 ISBN 13: 9780520059511

Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, 1990

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Red cloth. Small bump at top corner of front board. Tick in blue ink on front end-paper. 230 x 150 mm. xiv, 506 pp. A study of repressive police operations in American cities, including undercover work in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia, as well as Washington D.C., Detroit, New Haven, Baltimore and Birmingham. Donner begins his history of countersubversion in the late 19th century, but focuses primarily on the dark tactics of the preceding thirty years, particularly the urban intelligence operations and abuses that burgeoned during the political unrest of the 1960s and 1970s. Includes bibliographical references and index. Seller Inventory # HN049

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Title: Protectors of Privilege: Red Squads and ...

Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley

Publication Date: 1990

Binding: Hardback

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Book Type: Book

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This landmark expos� 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.

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This book spotlights the repressive police tactics of the past thirty years, particularly the urban intelligence operations and abuses that burgeoned during the political unrest of the 1960s and 1970s.

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