In Photos: Corruption and Crime in Los Angeles

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The bloody evidence of a murder spree awaits processing at police headquarters, 1930.
Photograph: Cliff Wesselmann/BL Press LLC/TASCHEN

A reluctant suspect and a police officer in 1934.
Photograph: Cliff Wesselmann/BL Press LLC/TASCHEN

James ‘Two Gun’ Davis was the emblem of LA police corruption, 1937.
Photograph: Cliff Wesselmann/BL Press LLC/TASCHEN

A group of prostitutes cover up after a vice squad raid at the Carolina Pines Restaurant on Melrose Avenue, 1957.
Photograph: Cliff Wesselmann/BL Press LLC/TASCHEN

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In Photos: Corruption and Crime in Los Angeles

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