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Wild Cowboys - Urban Marauders & the Forces of Order (Paperback, New Ed)
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Wild Cowboys - Urban Marauders & the Forces of Order (Paperback, New Ed)
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Four bullet-torn bodies in a drug-ridden South Bronx alley. A
college boy shot in the head on the West Side Highway. A wild
shootout on the streets of Washington Heights, home of New York
City's immigrant Dominican community and hub of the eastern
seaboard's drug trade. All seemingly separate acts of violence. But
investigators discover a pattern to the mayhem, with links to
scores of assaults and murders throughout the city. In this bloody
urban saga, Robert Jackall recounts how street cops, detectives,
and prosecutors pieced together a puzzle-like story of narcotics
trafficking, money laundering, and murders for hire, all centered
on a vicious gang of Dominican youths known as the Wild Cowboys.
These boyhood friends, operators of a lucrative crack business in
the Bronx, routinely pistol-whipped their workers, murdered rivals,
shot or slashed witnesses to their crimes, and eventually turned on
one another in a deadly civil war. Jackall chronicles the
crime-scene investigations, frantic car chases, street arrests at
gunpoint, interviews with informants, and knuckle-breaking plea
bargaining that culminated in prison terms for more than forty gang
members. But he also tells a cautionary tale--one of a society with
irreconcilable differences, fraught with self-doubt and moral
ambivalence, where the institutional logics of law and bureaucracy
often have perverse outcomes. A society where the forces of order
battle not just violent criminals but elites seemingly aligned with
forces of disorder: community activists who grab any pretext to
further narrow causes; intellectuals who romanticize criminals;
judges who refuse to lock up dangerous men; federal prosecutors who
relish nailing cops more than crooks; and politicians who pander to
the worst of our society behind rhetorics of social justice and
moral probity. In such an up-for-grabs world, whose order will
prevail?
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