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    Vice: One Cop's Story of Patrolling America's Most Dangerous City (2011) Hardcover Book

    Vice: One Cop's Story of Patrolling America's Most Dangerous City (2011) Hardcover Book

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    Compton: the most violent and crime-ridden city in America. What had been a semi-rural suburb of Los Angeles in the 1950s became a battleground for the Black Panthers and Malcolm X Foundation, the home of the Crips and Bloods and the first Hispanic gangs, and the cradle of gangster rap. At the center of it, trying to maintain order was the Compton Police Department, never more than 130-strong, and facing an army of criminals that numbered over 10,000. At any given time, fully one-tenth of Compton’s population was in prison, yet this tidal wave of crime was held back by the thinnest line of the law - the Compton Police.