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Former Los Angeles Police Department
police officer Charles Stoker blasted 1940s corruption in the LAPD. In 1951, Charles Stoker published “Thicker’n
Thieves.” According to the book cover, “where corrupt police officers, venal politicians and
office-holders claimed to have been fighting the underworld, Stocker fought it personally, furiously and with everything at
his command to the point where he was framed and fired for “CONDUCT UNBECOMING A POLICE OFFICER” because he testified
to the fact before the 1949 Los Angeles Grand Jury. Aside from being a cold steel account of what transpired
during his tenure as an officer, this is the highly human story of young Texan, Stoker.” Stoker’s
1951 bombshell is now a 2006 collectable, selling for as much as $500.
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