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The War That Helped Bring Law and Order to Los Angeles

The War That Helped Bring Law and Order to Los Angeles DOI 10.1515/cjpp-2013-0008 Calif. J. Politics Policy 2013; 5(2): 307­311 Book Review Maxwell Leung By Scott Zesch The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871. London: Oxford University Press, 2012. The greatest strength of Scott Zesch's, The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871, is his detailed description of the factors that led to a little-known massacre of a small Chinatown community in Los Angeles and his emphasis on the role of the criminal justice system in the investigation, prosecution, and court trial in its aftermath. In the early evening of October 24, 1871, hundreds of rioters surrounded Chinatown, which was located in the area of Los Angeles called Calle de los Negroes (a lane of about five hundred feet from the intersection of Arcadia and Los Angeles Streets which is now the southeast corner of El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument). Enraged by the murder of a local townsman, Robert Thompson, the angry throng of Angelenos ­ Whites and Latinos ­ were held back by a handful of policemen. An hour earlier, gunfire was heard in the small neighborhood of Chinatown, which numbered 00 residents. Thompson, the proprietor of a local http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png California Journal of Politics and Policy de Gruyter

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DOI 10.1515/cjpp-2013-0008 Calif. J. Politics Policy 2013; 5(2): 307­311 Book Review Maxwell Leung By Scott Zesch The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871. London: Oxford University Press, 2012. The greatest strength of Scott Zesch's, The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871, is his detailed description of the factors that led to a little-known massacre of a small Chinatown community in Los Angeles and his emphasis on the role of the criminal justice system in the investigation, prosecution, and court trial in its aftermath. In the early evening of October 24, 1871, hundreds of rioters surrounded Chinatown, which was located in the area of Los Angeles called Calle de los Negroes (a lane of about five hundred feet from the intersection of Arcadia and Los Angeles Streets which is now the southeast corner of El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument). Enraged by the murder of a local townsman, Robert Thompson, the angry throng of Angelenos ­ Whites and Latinos ­ were held back by a handful of policemen. An hour earlier, gunfire was heard in the small neighborhood of Chinatown, which numbered 00 residents. Thompson, the proprietor of a local

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Published: Apr 11, 2013

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