The gangs of Zion : a Black cop's crusade in Mormon country /
Stallworth, Ron,
The gangs of Zion : a Black cop's crusade in Mormon country / - First edition. - pages cm
The Accidental Policeman -- We Ain't Brothers -- Straight Outta Colorado -- Canyons and Cowboys -- Arriving in the Beehive -- You're Not in Disneyland -- Gangsta's Paradise -- Heads in the Sand -- "Turn Up the Volume!" -- "Real" Niggas and One Crazy Motherfucker -- Skinheads -- Denial is Not a Lake in Utah -- Chasing Miles -- One-Time Pass -- Cop Killer -- Letter from an OG -- "Gangster Rap Made Me Do It" -- Testifyin' -- Hammer Didn't Hurt 'Em -- Gangsta Rap on Trial -- Mr. Stallworth Goes to Washington Again -- You Don't Have To Agree... -- Straight-Edgers and Race-Baiters -- Blindsided -- Endings Foreseen and Unwanted -- Jemijo -- When One Door Closes... -- Back to Booty -- The Challenge.
"New York Times bestselling author of Black Klansman, Ron Stallworth, returns with another firsthand account of trailblazing police work in the most unlikely place for a Black cop in the '90s. Determined to pursue his passion for undercover work wherever it leads, Ron Stallworth finally lands in Salt Lake City, Utah. Once again, he's an outsider--not only as a Black man on a mostly white police force but also as an unapologetic nonbeliever in a state dominated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. But soon after his first drug bust in the Beehive, Stallworth makes a startling discovery-Bloods and Crips are infiltrating Mormon Country, threatening to turn the deeply conservative community into a hotbed of crime. Kids are bombing homes while carrying pocket versions of the Book of Mormon, yet his fellow cops are in denial that gangs are wreaking havoc in their Christian town. Now Stallworth has a new mission. Whether facing off with skinheads at a downtown bar or schooling white Crips blasting "F*ck tha Police," he is intent on stemming the tide of gangs into the state. But those he expected to be his allies either have their heads in the sand or their own agendas-from the racist Mormon legislator to the community activist exploiting a fatal gang incident to spread paranoia over an imaginary race war. As he butts heads with these so-called leaders, Stallworth also realizes that gangsta rap has the key to the g-code. He becomes obsessed with-even defensive of-the music he once loathed and puts himself on the front lines of America's culture war. Now he's spitting uncensored lyrics before Congress and taking the stand in the 1993 murder case that puts hip-hop on trial. But the more Stallworth speaks truth to power, the more determined the gatekeepers in Utah are to silence him, and not even twenty-three years of police work could prepare him for how low they would stoop"--
9781538765944 1538765942
2024014005
Stallworth, Ron.
Gangs--Utah--Case studies.
African American police--Utah--Case studies.
Police--Utah--Case studies.
Racism--Utah--Case studies.
Case studies.
�Etudes de cas.
HV6439.U7 / U878 2024
364.106/909792258
The gangs of Zion : a Black cop's crusade in Mormon country / - First edition. - pages cm
The Accidental Policeman -- We Ain't Brothers -- Straight Outta Colorado -- Canyons and Cowboys -- Arriving in the Beehive -- You're Not in Disneyland -- Gangsta's Paradise -- Heads in the Sand -- "Turn Up the Volume!" -- "Real" Niggas and One Crazy Motherfucker -- Skinheads -- Denial is Not a Lake in Utah -- Chasing Miles -- One-Time Pass -- Cop Killer -- Letter from an OG -- "Gangster Rap Made Me Do It" -- Testifyin' -- Hammer Didn't Hurt 'Em -- Gangsta Rap on Trial -- Mr. Stallworth Goes to Washington Again -- You Don't Have To Agree... -- Straight-Edgers and Race-Baiters -- Blindsided -- Endings Foreseen and Unwanted -- Jemijo -- When One Door Closes... -- Back to Booty -- The Challenge.
"New York Times bestselling author of Black Klansman, Ron Stallworth, returns with another firsthand account of trailblazing police work in the most unlikely place for a Black cop in the '90s. Determined to pursue his passion for undercover work wherever it leads, Ron Stallworth finally lands in Salt Lake City, Utah. Once again, he's an outsider--not only as a Black man on a mostly white police force but also as an unapologetic nonbeliever in a state dominated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. But soon after his first drug bust in the Beehive, Stallworth makes a startling discovery-Bloods and Crips are infiltrating Mormon Country, threatening to turn the deeply conservative community into a hotbed of crime. Kids are bombing homes while carrying pocket versions of the Book of Mormon, yet his fellow cops are in denial that gangs are wreaking havoc in their Christian town. Now Stallworth has a new mission. Whether facing off with skinheads at a downtown bar or schooling white Crips blasting "F*ck tha Police," he is intent on stemming the tide of gangs into the state. But those he expected to be his allies either have their heads in the sand or their own agendas-from the racist Mormon legislator to the community activist exploiting a fatal gang incident to spread paranoia over an imaginary race war. As he butts heads with these so-called leaders, Stallworth also realizes that gangsta rap has the key to the g-code. He becomes obsessed with-even defensive of-the music he once loathed and puts himself on the front lines of America's culture war. Now he's spitting uncensored lyrics before Congress and taking the stand in the 1993 murder case that puts hip-hop on trial. But the more Stallworth speaks truth to power, the more determined the gatekeepers in Utah are to silence him, and not even twenty-three years of police work could prepare him for how low they would stoop"--
9781538765944 1538765942
2024014005
Stallworth, Ron.
Gangs--Utah--Case studies.
African American police--Utah--Case studies.
Police--Utah--Case studies.
Racism--Utah--Case studies.
Case studies.
�Etudes de cas.
HV6439.U7 / U878 2024
364.106/909792258