by John Buntin
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Credits
GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT is given for permission to use material from the following sources:
Archives and photograph collection, William H. Parker Police Foundation, Los Angeles, California.
Photographs, the Los Angeles Police Historical Society, Los Angeles, California.
LAPD official departmental records, the Los Angeles Police Department; the Los Angeles Police Commission; the office of the Los Angeles City Attorney; and the City Records Center, Los Angeles, California.
The Genealogy and Life Story of Erna and Norris Poulson, by Norris Poulson, Department of Special Collections and Digital Collections, Department of Special Collections, UCLA, Los Angeles, California.
Photographs, USC Special Collections, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
Photographs, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California.
Photograph Collection, Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, California.
Ben Hecht Papers, Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois; the Hecht Estate; and the William Morris Agency.
Personal collection, Edward Escobar, Tucson, Arizona.
About the Author
JOHN BUNTIN is a staff writer at Governing magazine, where he covers crime and urban affairs. A native of Mississippi, Buntin graduated from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and has worked as a case writer for Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. A former resident of Southern California, he now lives in Washington, D.C., with his family.
For more information, please visit www.johnbuntin.com.
Copyright © 2009 by John Buntin
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