Ghetto Cops: On the Streets of the Most Dangerous City in America

The #1 New York Times bestselling author recounts riding along with street cops in California's most dangerous city: Compton (Los Angeles Times).

In 1974, Compton, California, had the highest per capita crime rate in the nation. And Bruce Henderson, then a young, idealistic newspaper reporter, was determined to spend the summer riding with the Compton police. His journalistic accounts of the day-to-day activities he witnessed is a vivid narrative dramatic, violent, and at times humorous inci...