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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.

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"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, University of Illinois at Chicago"

Operation Fly Trap L. A. Gangs Drugs and the Law

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    Publisher: University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 7/12/2012 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780226667652, 978-0226667652
    ISBN10: 0226667650
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    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.

    Trade Review
    "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, University of Illinois at Chicago"

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