Racist And Inaccurate Trash

I was excited to get this audio book. I'm a big fan of hip hop and wanted to hear the perspective of an investigator who investigated the death of Notorious BIG. Instead I got a book about how black police officers were too dumb to pass a police exam and only got promoted because of their race. And how white police officers were the victims of false claims of racism. The author also claims white liberals are only critical of police because they don't know how violent black people are. The author returns to this point several times.

He writes extensively about the righteousness and well intentions of white police in Los Angels while never mentioning any of the proven cases of police brutality and race based harrassment by white officers. The only criticism he ever gives law enforcement is on black officers. He specifically singles them out as corrupt.

If you can get past all the offensive racist stuff and make it to the parts where he discusses the investigation of the murders of Biggie and Tupac then you'll see many inaccuracies. Suge Knight was never a drug dealer and didn't claim membership into a gang until he left college. He even misquoted Maxine Waters suggesting she defended his criminal activities, which she never did.

If you want to learn more about the murders of two of hip hop's biggest stars Biggie and Tupac, this is not the book for you. I suggest you try one of the other accounts. This book is full of racist nonsense about black men like me. If officers see me in the way this author and the investigator he followed surely does, I can see why they suspect every black male is a criminal.

7 people found this helpful

A stark and unflinching look

A stark and unflinching look at the consequences of diversity and political correctness at all costs...

2 people found this helpful

A Deep, Dark Dive With Many Twists and Turns

A very intriguing story about events we will never know the truth about completely. Couldn't stop listening! Listened to it 3 times!

1 person found this helpful

Wow

Eye opening for sure! Well written and definitely provided insight into several intertwined events. And I'm excited, I just discovered there is a follow-up book by the same author.... Because this book totally left me wanting to know more!

1 person found this helpful

Interesting but mistaken theory

By all accounts Russell pool was a great cop before this. It's sad that he threw away his career and pension for a crackpot theory like this. That being said the book is interesting fiction

AMAZING

this book matches up with everything I have studied I'm regards to death row records pac and biggie....
this book is an absolute must have for anyone who has ever been curious about tupac, and biggie , and Deathrow records. this is just simply amazing ...


..I re listen to this book all the time and always find something new.... 5 Stars.

Very well researched!!!

This book goes into sooooo much of the background surrounding these two cases and the dirty cops that were involved whether directly or indirectly and how corrupt our justice system really is specially at the time in Los Angeles in the 1990s and probably still to this day the narrator did a very good job in that’s why I would have to read this book with all 5stars definitely a must read!!!!

Interesting take

I found the book interesting. I work in law enforcement and I heard through my career that LAPD did not do proper background checks on its employees. I also heard Barnard Parks was not liked by the officers of the department. His rules hurt the department and it’s officers. I can see Parks covering things up to protect the department. It was a different version of events I have heard. A good look at the LAPD at the time.
I don’t believe any cops were involved in the Biggies murder. I do believe there are people who know what went down and they are afraid to come forward because Suge Knight will have them killed. I believe he has that kind of reach.

Comprehensive decoding of mob mentality across societies

Back then people went on a journey, exploring. Nowadays people go on holiday. This account has the best of both. The character building cannot falter, and each brings extra complexities and ramifications which magnify the entire map from bottom up. To think that many of these characters are reveered show people on the other side of the pond that rolling the dice on life, and winning big or ultimately loosing one’s life is what the end sums to mind.

A must read

If you are interested in crime and conspiracy this is the book for you. It’s a shame that the corruption ran so wild.