Murder in New Orleans: The Creation of Jim Crow Policing 022664331X, 9780226643311

New Orleans in the 1920s and 1930s was a deadly place. In 1925, the city’s homicide rate was six times that of New York

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Murder in New Orleans: The Creation of Jim Crow Policing
022664331X, 9780226643311

New Orleans in the 1920s and 1930s was a deadly place. In 1925, the city's homicide rate was six times that of New

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New Orleans in the 1920s and 1930s was a deadly place. In 1925, the city’s homicide rate was six times that of New York

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