{"product_id":"the-badge-9781567318999","title":"The Badge","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore Charlies Angels  Miami Vice  or NYPD Blue  there was Dragnet. From 1951 to 1959  Jack Webb starred as Sergeant Joe Friday in the most successful police drama in television history. Webb (\"Just the facts  maam\") was also the creator of Dragnet  and what made the show so revolutionary was its documentary-style format and the fact that each episode was \"ripped\" from the files of the LAPD. But 1950s television censors deemed many of the stories in the LAPDs files too violent or sensational for the airwaves. The Badge is Webbs collection of stories that could not be presented on TV: untold  behind-the-scenes accounts of the Black Dahlia murder  the Brenda Allen confessions  Stephen Nashs \"thrill murders \" and Donald Bashors \"sleeping lady murders \" to name just a few. Case by case  The Badge takes readers on a spine chilling police tour through the dark  shadowy world of Los Angeles crime. It is a journey that  even four decades after it originally appeared in print  no reader is likely to forget.  The Badge comes with an introduction by master of crime noir  James Ellroy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67944792686645,"sku":"ByrdShop_1567318991","price":37.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-badge-9781567318999","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}