Hello, my friends today I am doing a spotlight on Blue Mafia by Tim Tolka I hope you enjoy the spotlight!
Title: Blue Mafia
By Tim Tolka
Genre: True Crime
Publication Date: April 1st, 2018
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Blue Mafia tells the backstory behind two federal investigations of police brutality in Steubenville and Warren, Ohio. The book explores the events leading up to the historic reform agreements and their outcomes, using the career of a local civil rights lawyer who filed lawsuits against the police and acted as an informant to federal investigators.
In Steubenville, when attorney Richard Olivito defends a drug dealer claiming police misconduct, he begins to feel hunted. Later, he acts as an informant and collaborator to Justice Department officials investigating the Steubenville police, which results in a consent decree, or court-enforced reform agreement, the 2nd in U.S. history.
A few years later, Olivito incites another federal Investigation in neighboring Warren, where residents have complained of police brutality for decades. This time is different because there Is a video.
Blue Mafia shows that some small towns have at least equally severe problem with police misconduct as many big cities, and it chronicles federal reform efforts on local police agencies during five U.S. presidential administrations, providing the most detailed account to date of police reform by consent decree and revealing the messy, sometimes tragic yet always human aspects of policing.
In Steubenville, when attorney Richard Olivito defends a drug dealer claiming police misconduct, he begins to feel hunted. Later, he acts as an informant and collaborator to Justice Department officials investigating the Steubenville police, which results in a consent decree, or court-enforced reform agreement, the 2nd in U.S. history.
A few years later, Olivito incites another federal Investigation in neighboring Warren, where residents have complained of police brutality for decades. This time is different because there Is a video.
Blue Mafia shows that some small towns have at least equally severe problem with police misconduct as many big cities, and it chronicles federal reform efforts on local police agencies during five U.S. presidential administrations, providing the most detailed account to date of police reform by consent decree and revealing the messy, sometimes tragic yet always human aspects of policing.
Author Tim Tolka
Tim Tolka is a writer, editor, and researcher. Born in Illinois, he grew up in nine states, including Texas and Louisiana. He went to University in Colorado for humanities, worked in real estate, event planning and education in NYC and SF, then went to D.C. for a Master's in American political economy. This work of five years is his first. Currently, he resides in California.
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