11.   The white cop, with the dirty blond hair, is a slob who lives on a boat.

12.   When the Fuhrman tapes became public, white cops downplayed him as an extreme exception.

13.   With his buddy-movie combination of the older black private investigator Derek Strange and the younger white cop Terry Quinn, Pelecanos shows signs of slickness.

14.   You do what he did, even if the white cops are all over you.

15.   In Los Angeles the following year, riots broke out after white cops accused of beating a black motorist were acquitted.