John Buntin, the author of L.A. Noir, is a staff writer at Governing magazine, where he covers crime and urban affairs.
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Midcentury Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as "the white spot of America," a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome Midwestern values and Hollywood stars, protected by the world's most famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this pu... SEE MORE