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Afghanistan, 251

Ain’t Nobody’s Business if You Do (McWilliams), 217

Albom, Mitch, 252

Alcohol, 30, 32, 164, 284, 285–286, 289, 322

Aleutian Islanders, 12

Alito, Samuel, 263

Alpert, Geoffrey, 274

Al Qaeda, 251

Ambrose, Miles, 81, 105, 108, 119, 121, 122

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, 248

American Revolution, 10, 14, 16, 22, 45, 196. See also Colonial period

Ames, Mel, 106, 107

Amsterdam, Anthony, 174

Antiwar movement, 41, 67, 69, 71, 99

Armored vehicles, xii, 63, 64, 96, 136, 154–157, 233, 239, 253–255, 256–257, 288, 302, 332

Army Rangers, 208

Arnold, Judy, 107, 110, 111, 112, 114

Arpaio, Joe, 288, 302

Arson, 52, 106

Arthur Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, 203

Articles of Federation, 17

Ashcroft, John, 253

Askew, Don and Virginia, 118, 120

Assassinations, 2, 67, 68

Assault weapons, 192, 224, 252, 255, 256, 258, 269–271, 273, 303

Assets forfeiture, 14, 140, 146, 152–154, 157, 175, 219, 240, 244, 249, 321

ATF. See Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms

Augustus (Emperor), 2, 3

Avina v. US , 303

Awtry, Aaron, 283

Badway, James, 330

Bail system, 66, 67, 84, 144

Bain, Donald, 275

Barnett, Charles Earl, 302

Barrett, Craig, 301

Barry, Marion, 91, 98

Bartels, John, Jr., 123

Bartlett, Richard, 50

Basile, Richard, 233

Batten, James, 91–92

Battering rams, 155–157, 279, 283

Baucum, David, 280–281

Baum, Dan, 67, 149, 255

Bell, Sean, 273

Bennett, William, 163–166, 169, 170, 177, 250

Bernhardt, Edwina and Catherine, 333

Berti, Patrick, 106

Biden, Joe, 140, 146, 167–168, 218, 219, 247, 257

Big government, 144, 300

Black markets, 32–33, 97, 250

Black Panthers, 66, 76–80, 129

Blacks, 10, 23, 24, 25, 35, 40, 66, 67, 69, 71, 87, 95, 98, 169, 187, 212, 245. See also Slavery; Watts riots

Blair, David, 33

Blakey, Robert, 140

Blass, Arnold, 117–118

Bloomberg, Michael, 333

Bollman, Bob, 107, 108, 111, 112–113

Bologna, Anthony, 296

Bonus March, 37, 41

Boston, ix, xi, 9, 12, 17, 19–22, 30, 170

Boston Massacre, 14, 21–22

Boston Globe , 169, 209

Bowdoin, James, 17

Bradley, Tom, 186

Brady v. Maryland , 54

Brandeis, Louis, 6

Braudis, Robert, 192

Breaking Rank (Stamper), 56, 189–190, 234

Brennan, William, 44, 45–47, 49, 76, 139, 174, 196

Brockman, Timothy, 264–265

Brooks, Pierce, 189

Brown, John, 22

Browning, James L., 113, 114

Browning, Richard III (Col.), 180

Brown v. Board of Education , 40, 41, 82

Brunkle, Archie, 107

Buchwald, Art, 92

Buckley, William F. 55, 92, 217

Buffalo, New York, 259–260

Bulger, Whitey, 326

Bullock, Deval (Det.), 281

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF), 108, 134, 199–204, 220

Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD), 68, 72, 73, 103, 104, 107–108, 114, 119, 123, 237, 280, 282, 290

Burgreen, Bob, 160, 189, 190

Burns, Anthony, 20, 21

Burns, Ed, 304

Burns, Eric, 33

Bush, George H. W., 163, 167, 180–181, 244

Bush, George W., 205, 208, 247, 250, 252, 253, 301

Butman, Asa O., 20

Byrne grants, 167, 221, 243–244, 245, 247, 248, 255, 301, 321

California, 215–216, 248, 252, 301–302. See also Humboldt County, California; Los Angeles/Los Angeles Police Department; individual cities

Calling Forth Act, 17–18

Calvo, Cheye, 309–320

Campaign Against Marijuana Production (CAMP), 147–149, 152

Carlson, Donald, 181–183

Carswell, G. Harrold, 101

Carter, Jimmy, 129, 135, 136

Castle Doctrine, 6–8, 9, 10, 12, 45, 46, 48, 83, 88, 94, 136, 196, 198, 199, 260, 261, 320

Cato Institute, vii, viii, 247, 289, 310, 315, 316, 336

Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR), 254, 255–256

Charleston, South Carolina, 28, 282

Chavez, Cesar, 59

Cheney, Dick, 167, 178

Children, 240, 241, 246, 248, 249–250, 264, 267, 289–290, 303

child pornography, 286–287

Christopher Commission, 186, 188

Churchill, Winston, 43

Cicero, 1, 6

Civil liberties, 2, 4, 29, 31, 39, 86, 150–151, 174, 216, 218

Civil Rights Act (1964), 82, 87

Civil rights issues, 24, 40, 41, 66, 68, 115, 121, 236, 285, 286

Civil War, 12

Clark, Mike, 254

Clark, Ramsey, 66

Clark, Tom, 45, 47, 48, 49, 92

Clifton, Lloyd, 108–109, 110–111, 113, 114, 115

Clinton, Bill, 129, 193, 194–195, 200, 203, 204, 215, 218, 219, 247, 252, 297, 300

Cocaine/crack, 136, 141, 155–157, 171, 179, 223, 260–261, 262, 263

Coleman, Tom, 245

Colombia, 251

Colonial period, x–xi, 3, 6, 8–9, 12, 13–14, 27–29, 140

Columbine High School in Littleton,

Colorado, 230–233

Common law, 4–5, 6, 45, 46, 88, 140, 196, 199, 261

Communism, 37, 38, 40, 178, 204

Computers. 98, 221, 268, 287, 324. See also Internet

Connecticut, 191–192, 218

Conrad, Clay, 276–277

Constables, x, 5, 28

Constantine (Emperor), 3

Constitution, ix–x, 16, 168, 236

Bill of Rights, xiv, 10, 13, 15

Commerce Clause, 87

Constitutional Convention, 17

Second/Tenth Amendments, 15

Third Amendment, 11–13, 15, 16, 39 ( see also Symbolic Third Amendment)

Fourth Amendment, 10, 45, 47–48, 54, 55, 114, 125, 139, 145, 150–151, 156, 157, 174, 184, 186, 196, 226, 236, 259, 263, 266, 277, 279, 284, 285, 286, 289, 303, 320, 325

Fifth Amendment, 54

Eighth Amendment, 54

Thirteenth/Fifteenth Amendments, 23

Fourteenth Amendment, 10, 23, 25, 48, 54, 153

Eighteenth Amendment, 32, 33

Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC), 289

Controlled Substances Act, 88

COPS program, 218, 221–222, 223, 255, 301

Coral, Valerie and Michael, 252

Cornell, Dewey, 233

Corruption, 5, 31, 32, 34, 141, 247

Costales, Sam, 329–330

Coulter, Ann, 205

Counterculture, 40, 41, 67, 68, 71, 76, 86, 106, 133, 152, 193

Craig, Malin (general), 39

Crime, 2, 4, 5, 8, 23, 26, 27, 28, 31, 32, 34, 50, 52, 64, 102, 198, 209, 225, 323

crime bills/policy, 65, 66–67, 68, 70, 71, 72, 73, 83–96, 100, 151–152, 167, 178

drugs and violent crime, 68, 103

organized crime, 140, 146

statistics concerning, 144, 163, 270, 272

victims of, x–xi, 3

See also Washington, D.C.: crimes in

Crime Control Act (1994), 274

Culosi, Sal, 280–281

Culture wars, 142, 143

Curtis, Richard,

Cushing Doctrine, 22, 24, 208

Daley, Richard, 68

Damon, Matt, 288

Davis, Ed, 62, 78

Death penalty, 80, 163, 166, 178

Declaration of Independence, 10

Defense Department/Pentagon, 36, 78–79, 145, 158, 167, 178, 191, 193–194, 209–210, 230, 254, 296, 303, 308, 321

DeGuerin, Dick, 280

Delano Grape Strike, 59

Dellinger, Walter, 205

Democracy, 39

Denver, Colorado, 185–186, 192, 288, 296

Detroit, Michigan, 96–97, 306

Dickenson, Dirk, 106–107, 108, 109–112, 116

DiGristine, Charles, 171–172

Dillinger, John, 132

Dodd, Thomas J., 86–87, 88–89, 90, 95

Doddridge, David, 270

Dogs, xiii, 117, 200, 241, 288, 290–293, 307, 309, 311, 316, 317, 332

Dorsen, Norman, 92

Douglass, Frederick, 20

Downing, Stephen, 211, 214, 325

Dragnet , 34

Drones, 256

Drudge, Matt, 294

Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program, 165–166