Alexander murders reconstructed by, 59–61
Alexander’s arrest by, 94–95
Alexanders interrogated by, 42–43, 46, 55–56
Bradley and, 11, 13, 96–98, 101
Burns’s trial and, 159, 174
Central Division of, 142
City Hall and, 96
Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums (CRASH) Unit of, 100, 102, 109, 142
and Cox’s childhood and adolescence, 302
Cox’s criminal record and, 210–11, 213
Cox’s mother and, 191, 202–3
criticisms of, 101
drug raids and, 100, 109–12
Gang Enforcement Unit of, 142
Harris and, 245
high-profile investigations of, 40
Kennedy interrogated by, 126–28, 131–34, 138–39
and killer of black prostitutes, 41
leads pursued by, 70–71
Metropolitan Division of, 49
and motive in Alexander murders, 62, 69, 71
Newton Division of, 41–42, 46, 48–49
Olympics and, 100
relations between community and, 81, 86, 117, 311–12
Robbery and Homicide Division (RHD) of, 40–41, 59, 126, 131, 142, 151, 226
77th Street Division of, 41–42, 100
Southeast Division Patrol Unit of, 210
street gangs and, 99–100, 102
and suspects in Alexander murders, 69–70
and threats to Lewis, 144
and violence in South Central, 8, 52–53, 248
Watts Riots and, 30
Williams interrogated by, 151–52, 226–27, 229–30, 234–36
Williams’s trial and, 226, 230–31, 234, 236
Ponce, Fernando, 69
Pop Warner football, 97, 102, 184–87
Port-au-Prince, 264, 270–71, 284, 286
earthquake near, 291–94
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), 293, 296–97, 299
Preston School of Industry, 212
prison gangs, 238–39, 241, 255, 258
Prohibition, 108, 222
Q
Quisenberry, Dan, 93
R
Ramirez, Richard (Night Stalker), 40
Rancho La Ballona, 77–78
Reagan, Ronald, 11, 92, 225
Reconstruction, 26
Reiner, Ira, 90, 147, 236
Retton, Mary Lou, 12
Reynoso, Cruz, 224–25
Robinson, Jackie, 28–29
Rodriguez, Cesar, 231
Rolling Sixties Crips (RSC):
Burns and, 141–42, 147, 160–61, 164, 169–72
Cox and, 136, 160–61, 178, 183, 197, 208–9, 213, 215, 219, 240, 254, 258, 281
intragang wars of, 125
Kennedy and, 112, 126–28
and motive in Alexander murders, 147
origins of, 208
at San Quentin, 240–41, 254, 256
and threats to Lewis, 144
violence and crimes of, 126–27
Williams and, 151–52, 169, 236, 240
Roosevelt, Franklin, 294
Roosevelt, Theodore, 107
Rosenberg, Ethel, 150
Rotstein, Joanne, 182, 215–17
S
St. Columbkille Roman Catholic Church, 10, 48, 74, 76
St. Eugene’s Catholic Church, 74–75
St. Vincent’s Hospital, 10, 179
San Francisco, Calif., 9, 14, 32, 40, 63, 84, 98, 151, 221, 292
San Francisco, University of (USF), 106
San Francisco 49ers, 4, 29–30, 32, 37, 87, 97, 106–7
San Mateo Daily Journal, 278
San Quentin State Prison:
Adjustment Center (AC) at, 223–25, 241, 254–58, 280–81, 308
Condemned Unit at, 224, 238–42, 245, 247, 252, 254–56, 281, 308
Cox’s imprisonment at, 220, 223–25, 238, 240–42, 247, 254–58, 280–82, 308
Cox’s transfer to, 221–23
executions at, 216, 222, 244–47, 252–53, 276, 278, 289, 296
physical appearance of, 221–22
prisoners’ takeover attempt at, 256–58
Williams’s imprisonment at, 238, 240, 252, 254, 277
Williams’s lawsuit against, 252
Santos, Alfredo, 222
Savings, Accountability, and Full Enforcement for California Act (SAFE), 309
Sayers, Gale, 87, 266
Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 278
Scott, “Monster” Kody, 122
Shea, Joe, 75–77
Shelley v. Kraemer, 159, 189
Sherry, William, 58
Simpson, O. J., 12, 136, 184
Singletary, Mike, 266
Slauson, J. S., 14
Slauson Avenue, 14–15, 38, 77, 82, 166
Slausons, 116, 119
slaves, slavery, 26–27, 66, 302
Haiti and, 264, 273
Snoop Dogg, 276
Soledad State Prison, 238
South Central Los Angeles, Calif., 310–11
Alexander murder investigations and, 72, 80–88, 186, 287
and Alexander’s childhood and adolescence, 23, 97–98
Alexander’s education in, 28
Alexander’s family’s settling in, 23
Alexander’s mother’s house in, 3, 7–8
Alexander’s volunteer and charitable work in, 97, 184
blacks in, 8, 14–15, 41, 51, 82–83, 86, 120
Bradley and, 11, 13, 96–98, 248
Cox and, 135–36, 197, 209, 213, 218, 297
departure of industry from, 82–83
drug raids and, 109
employment in, 14, 82–83, 86
fear in, 49–52, 90
in history, 14
housing in, 52, 82, 116
Olympics and, 13, 82
physical appearance of, 82
poverty in, 8
riots in, 82, 247–48
senior citizens in, 50–51
size and population of, 53
street gangs and, 24–25, 30, 41, 54, 83–85, 97–99, 102, 116, 119, 248
violence and crime in, 1, 8, 13, 38, 41–42, 49–53, 63, 83–84, 86, 94, 99, 248
Southern California, University of (USC), 12, 29, 93
South Side Slayer, 41
Soviet Union, 12, 92
Stevens, John Paul, 245–46
Stiner, George, 119
Stingley, Darryl, 105–6
street gangs, 176, 297, 307
Alexander murder investigations and, 47, 49, 71, 84–85, 98, 102
and Alexander’s childhood and adolescence, 24–25
Alexander’s speeches on, 92
attraction of, 122–23
of blacks, 111, 115–25, 168
Burns and, 141–42, 147, 160–61, 164, 168–72, 174
Cox and, 136, 161, 178, 183, 197–98, 208–9, 211–13, 215, 219, 240, 244, 254, 258, 281, 302
crack cocaine and, 100, 111, 127
and decline in crime, 312
finances of, 122–24
gaining entry into, 123–24
history of, 115–25
in Hyde Park, 110, 112, 125, 164
Kennedy and, 112, 125–28, 134
in L.A., 115, 117–18, 120–26, 174
language of, 123
rivalries between, 123–25
rules of, 123–24
San Quentin and, 222, 239–41, 254–56, 258
South Central and, 24–25, 30, 41, 54, 83–85, 97–99, 102, 116, 119, 248
uniforms of, 123–24
violence of, 102, 108, 116–18, 121–22, 124–25
Watts Riots and, 117–18
Williams and, 151–52, 169, 236, 240, 276–78
Strode, Woody, 29
Supreme Court, Calif.:
Cox’s appeal and, 243–44
death penalty and, 145, 153, 224–25, 243–44, 253–54
Williams’s appeal and, 243, 253–54
Supreme Court, U.S., 29, 99, 189
Cox’s appeal and, 307
on death penalty, 152–53, 245–46, 307
T
Tate, Sharon, 90
Taylor, Preston, 210, 219
Taylor, Valarie, 1, 228, 231, 237, 311
Tenth Avenue, 109–10, 168–69, 200, 205
Kennedy and, 112, 125, 141
Lewis and, 141, 144, 146
Texas, 21–22, 188, 190, 265, 273, 308
Alexander’s business venture in, 66–67
Third World, 71
Thorpe, Jim, 97
Titanyen, 271–72, 282, 288
Toler, Burl, 106
Toussaint-Louverture, François-Dominique, 273, 292
Trahin, Jimmy, 128–29
Trujillo, Rafael, 273
Tsarpkin, S., 92
Tuilaepa, Paul “Roscoe,” 256–57
U
Ueberroth, Peter, 12
Uniroyal, 82–83
United Slaves (U.S.), 117–19
V
Vasquez, Daniel, 246–47
Vermont Avenue, 1, 76, 169, 200, 227, 311
Vicary, William, 232
Vietnam War, 108, 121, 297
W
Warren, Earl, 99
Washington, Booker T., 27
Washington, Kenny, 29
Washington, Raymond, 120–21
Watts, Calif., 54, 271, 275, 287
and Alexander’s childhood and adolescence, 23–25, 185
Alexander’s mother’s move from, 33
Alexander’s Pop Warner team and, 184–86
damages and casualties in, 32
and leads pursued by police, 71
police–community efforts in, 312
riots in, 9, 30–33, 38, 41, 82, 86–87, 117–18, 247, 294
Watts family, 23
Webb, Venus, 58, 199, 205
Western Avenue, 14, 82, 166, 211
Western Avenue School, 193
West Fifty-Ninth Street, 3, 7, 15, 33, 39, 48, 70–71, 132, 231, 262
Burns’s trial and, 166–68, 171
police’s response to events at, 43–45
West Seventy-Seventh Street, 140, 192
West Side Crips, 208, 240
white regulators, 115–16
Williams, Darren Charles (CW), 237, 273, 302, 311
appeal of, 243, 253–54
arrest of, 157, 226–27
Burns’s jailhouse kite and, 161–64, 169
Burns’s trial and, 160–61, 165–69, 171–73, 175
community service of, 234–35
conviction of, 235–36, 253
Cox’s trial and, 181, 200, 205, 216–18
crack cocaine and, 151, 230, 232, 234, 236, 310
death penalty and, 151–52, 175, 227, 234–35, 242, 253–54, 310
finances of, 231, 233, 235
imprisonment of, 163, 227, 238, 240, 242, 252, 254, 277, 310
Jack’s Vermont Club and, 200, 227, 229–31
lawsuit of, 252
life sentence of, 310
physical appearance of, 200, 216–17
police interrogation of, 151–52, 226–27, 229–30, 234–36
street gangs and, 151–52, 169, 236, 240, 276–78
trial of, 151, 157–59, 220, 226, 230–36
weapons of, 167, 171, 200
Williams, David Michael, 176–77
Williams, John, 12
Williams, Stanley “Tookie”:
alleged redemption of, 276–79
clemency sought by, 276–78
execution of, 276, 278
gang affiliation of, 121, 208, 240, 276–78
stabbing of, 240–41, 309
Wilson, Pete, 247, 308
Windmill, Operation, 279
World War II, 22–23, 108, 115, 128, 222
Alexander’s father’s military career in, 17, 19–20
Y
Young, Jettie, 231
Youth Authority, Calif. (CYA), 137, 190, 209, 211–13, 297
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