Wild Cowboys

Urban Marauders & the Forces of Order

Robert Jackall

    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

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  • A photo of the author

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.