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Frank J. Donner
Protectors of Privilege
Red Squads and Police Repression in Urban America
$26.95, £15.95 paperback
978-0-520-08035-5
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"[An] excellently researched, thoughtful and well-detailed study of police spying. . . . As Donner points out, the squads are not a recent invention. One of his most important contributions is tracing the history of the Red squads, showing how deeply rooted they are in American political, social, and economic life."—Bill Boyarsky, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"An incisive and depressingly detailed account of the government's willingness to use police departments to quell dissent."—Gerry O'Sullivan, Philadelphia Inquirer
"A comprehensive and well-documented study of the political environment that spawned repression; police target selection and operations; the relationship of the squads to the power structure; the role of the press; the methods, assumptions, and career aspirations of ambitious police 'Big Men,' and the factors that effectively brought an end to the squads."—Pamela D. Delaney, Political Science Quarterly
"An incisive and depressingly detailed account of the government's willingness to use police departments to quell dissent."—Gerry O'Sullivan, Philadelphia Inquirer
"A comprehensive and well-documented study of the political environment that spawned repression; police target selection and operations; the relationship of the squads to the power structure; the role of the press; the methods, assumptions, and career aspirations of ambitious police 'Big Men,' and the factors that effectively brought an end to the squads."—Pamela D. Delaney, Political Science Quarterly
This landmark exposé of the dark history of repressive police operations in American cities offers a richly detailed account of police misconduct and violations of protected freedoms over the past century. In an incisive examination of undercover work in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia as well as Washington, D.C., Detroit, New Haven, Baltimore, and Birmingham, Donner reveals the underside of American law enforcement.