Official Negligence

Description

Spring 1992, and the City of Angels was suddenly a modern hell. During five terrifying days, as the world watched in horror, the deadliest urban rioting of the twentieth century laid waste to South Central Los Angeles. But there's a hidden story behind the riots. Lou Cannon, who covered Los Angeles for The Washington Post before, during, and after the violence, has exhaustively interviewed the survivors and learned the definitive story of just what happened and why. Official Negligence takes us behind the scenes at City Hall and at police headquarters, inside jury rooms, onto the front lines of the violence in the streets, and into the hearts and minds of unknown heroes and tells, for the first time, a riveting tale of multiple injustices, mismanagements, and misjudgments. Official Negligence illuminates all the characters and events surrounding what went wrong in Los Angeles. In so doing, it lays bare the ethnic, racial, and economic fault lines that divide American society at the approach of the millennium.

First Sentence

THE LAST THING THE LEADERS OF LOS ANGELES EXPECTED IN THE early 1990s was that their city would become the scene of the nation's deadliest urban race riot since the Civil War.

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Other Editions

• Official negligence: how Rodney King and the riots changed Los Angeles and the LAPDTimes Books1997-01-01
• Official NegligencePaperbackWestview Press1999-10-01
• Official NegligenceHardcoverCrown1998-01-20
• Official NegligenceRandom House Value Publishing1999-08-31
• Official NegligenceTaylor & Francis Group2000-01-01