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Author Phillips, Susan A., 1969-

Title Operation Fly Trap : L.A. gangs, drugs, and the law / Susan A. Phillips
Published Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012, ©2012

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Contents The game -- Charlotte's web -- Broken families -- Cutting the head off the snake -- The prosecutor's darling -- Conclusion: Fruit of the poison tree
Summary 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
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Subject 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
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780226667676
0226667677