New York: Atria (Simon & Schuster), (2023). SIGNED first edition - "An exhaustive case study of policing in this Bay Area city - 'More has been done to try to reform the Oakland Police Department than any other police force in the United States,' but the main parallel seems to be: True reform is nearly impossible. By zooming in geographically, but also stretching out their timeline the town had a racist mayor who unleashed police officers against Chinese immigrants back in 1879 the authors conjure a sense of chronic tragedy. A culture of corruption and violence keeps flourishing despite repeated good faith efforts to stop the bad apples, who continue to show up, generation after generation, to spoil the barrel." The crimes of the officers involved were only exposed because of a young rookie (who left the force) and all of them were acquitted at trial - although over the years Oakland paid millions of dollars to settle police brutality cases. SIGNED on the half title page by Darwin BondGraham. Extensive notes. 445 pp.