Prologue A Quad in the Bronx A Death on the Highway Fort "Yo No Se!" Uptown Murders Cracking the Case Lenny's Boys The Takedown Downtown Justice Urban Badlands Troubled Order Epilogue Cast of Characters Timeline Abbreviations Notes on Sources Acknowledgments Index Maps Police Precincts in New York City Beekman Avenue, Bronx 40th Precinct, Bronx Mott Haven Neighborhood, Bronx 34th Precinct, Manhattan
Robert Jackall has done several years of fieldwork with New York City police detectives and prosecutors, among whom he is known as "The Professor." He is the Class of 1956 Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Williams College.
Wild Cowboys has a great deal to tell about the formation and
operation of emerging "criminal enterprises." Moreover, and perhaps
more important, this book is a fly-on-the-wall look at how the
"forces of order" think and go about eradicating the
opposition...Mr. Jackall is at his best when he fleshes out how
police detectives single-mindedly overcame dead-end leads,
sidestepped or neutralized competing units within the ranks of the
police bureaucracy and parlayed fragments of accurate information
to solve several particularly vicious pieces of Wild Cowboy
handiwork...Anyone interested in the techniques of criminal
investigation could not find a more comprehensive and readable
primer than this book.
*New York Law Journal*
This book is a hard-driving, factual account of the Dominican drug
trade and the havoc it wreaked in New York City, particularly in
Washington Heights and the Bronx, along with the frustrated efforts
of law enforcement officials to deal with it.
*The Register*
Jackall isn't afraid to draw conclusions and his story has an air
of authenticity. This book makes a brutal and, for most readers,
extremely foreign world seem discomfitingly close.
*Publishers Weekly*
Wild Cowboys has a great deal to tell about the formation
and operation of emerging "criminal enterprises." Moreover, and
perhaps more important, this book is a fly-on-the-wall look at how
the "forces of order" think and go about eradicating the
opposition...Mr. Jackall is at his best when he fleshes out how
police detectives single-mindedly overcame dead-end leads,
sidestepped or neutralized competing units within the ranks of the
police bureaucracy and parlayed fragments of accurate information
to solve several particularly vicious pieces of Wild Cowboy
handiwork...Anyone interested in the techniques of criminal
investigation could not find a more comprehensive and readable
primer than this book. -- Alan Mass * New York Law Journal *
This book is a hard-driving, factual account of the Dominican drug
trade and the havoc it wreaked in New York City, particularly in
Washington Heights and the Bronx, along with the frustrated efforts
of law enforcement officials to deal with it. -- Bill Franz * The
Register *
Jackall isn't afraid to draw conclusions and his story has an air
of authenticity. This book makes a brutal and, for most readers,
extremely foreign world seem discomfitingly close. * Publishers
Weekly *
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