Operation Fly Trap [electronic resource] : L.A. gangs, drugs, and the law / Susan A. Phillips.
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TextPublication details: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012, ©2012.Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780226667676
- 0226667677
- Gangs -- California -- Los Angeles -- Case studies
- Drug control -- Social aspects -- United States
- Drug traffic -- Investigation -- California -- Los Angeles -- Case studies
- Gang prevention -- California -- Los Angeles -- Case studies
- Drug enforcement agents -- California -- Los Angeles -- Case studies
- Informers -- California -- Los Angeles -- Case studies
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
- Drug control -- Social aspects
- Drug enforcement agents
- Drug traffic -- Investigation
- Gang prevention
- Gangs
- Informers
- California -- Los Angeles
- United States
- 363.4509794/94 23
- HV6439.U7 P465 2012eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The game -- Charlotte's web -- Broken families -- Cutting the head off the snake -- The prosecutor's darling -- Conclusion: Fruit of the poison tree.
Print version record.
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 & rsquo;s work brings together po.