Boot: An L.A.P.D. Officer's Rookie Year

Boot: An L.A.P.D. Officer's Rookie Year by Dunn, William C.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780688147136.

In the tumultuous year encompassing the now infamous Rodney King beating, rookie police officer William Dunn, a "boot", was assigned to patrol the nine square miles that make up the Southwest Division of the Los Angeles Police Department. With twenty-five known street gangs and more than three thousand ex-cons, the Southwest Division was, in 1991, one of the most dangerous areas to police in the country. An unforgettable account of one cops life on the thin blue line, Boot is Dunns story of his first year with the L.A.P.D. Dunns gripping portrait of crime in L.A. offers important insight into what is wrong with our cities - and the way we police them.