By Miles Corwin
ISBN-10: 0449002918
ISBN-13: 9780449002919
Gaining remarkable entry to the LAPD, crime reporter Miles Corwin shadows murder detectives at the suggest streets of South crucial L.A. Pete "Raz" Razanskas and Marcella Winn have been not going companions: one a crusty 22-year veteran of the strength; the opposite a street-smart girl from the 'hood. A photo, uncensored examine genuine police officers and genuine killers, this ebook is that infrequent blend of great reportage and riveting storytelling that might go away readers shaken, expert, and blasted conscious.
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Felipe car ried only a small nylon backpack, a change of clothes and pic tures of his daughters. A few hours before he left, he visited his daughters for the last time. He told them, "I will be gone for a while. " He told them he loved them. He said good-by, began crying and hurried out the door. Before they boarded the bus that night, his mother handed her two sons a sack of sandwiches and a jug of lemonade. ) They arrived in Tijuana 48 hours later and took a city bus to the border. They waited at dusk with a handful of other polios (chickens) on a plateau overlooking the border.
He told her he knew she had always loved him, even when she was not around. "She finally got right and she wanted me to straighten out too," Anthony recalls. ' " He stares across the jail visiting cubicle and sighs. " 60 Miles Corwin She asked him to stop hangingout with his Crip friends, and he told her he would try to change, try to make her proud of him. He and his girlfriend moved into an apartment. He at tended continuation school to obtain his high-school diploma. He eventually enrolled in a professional school and studied to become a dental assistant, while working nights as a janitor at a hotel.
He tellsher to take Hoover to 49th and then east to Figueroa. She ignores him and takes another route. "Hey, you're not taking Hoover," he says. "That's right," she says. " He flips on the radio and, as usual, turns to a country and western station. "And I'm sick of listening to that shit-kicking music every day," she says. "When I drive, I should get to pick the station. " Razanskas grabs a pinch of Skoal and spits into his cup. She is so adamant and her expression so determined he does not feel like challenging her.