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'However, all of this wouldnt be possible without the stand by she received from the Harry Guggenheim Foundation award. That grant helped her pop her fieldwork in 2005. Her fieldwork was birthed in the Pueblos neighborhood in Los Angles, this is where she got at heart study from the gang out twistths themselves. She also studied from the Los Angles law of nature De compositionment (LARD), here she befriended a couple of FBI agents that were in charge of function Fly narrow down. All of this fieldwork pave her way In writing a in truth objective book.She received individually received some(prenominal) sides of the Issue and wrote this book to give her point of becharm on the subject. In her Ellwood she would study the effects of the umpire department and the consequence it has on the community and family of the criminals involved. The clock she spent on the inside, with the people of the gangs and the lives they lead, would lead Phillips to skepticism both the success of this operation and the methods used to conduct it (Phillips 175).Los Angles was struck with dramatic economical times, the economy was unraveling In every way possible. The economy was hurt by the 011 crisis, depreciating international dollar, dwindle of union jobs, bifurcation of the manufacturing sector, ND an unchanging education system (Phillips 7). All of these factors would be reasons of why a good working tell apart citizen would turn to dealing medicines, being a member of a gang, and/or using do drugss. Drug currency was â€Å"easy money” as one would say.You could take for stacks of money fast, with little effort to the highest degree of the time. The hard part was not getting caught. With the append In drug activity happening In Los Angles was the same Increase In prison sentences. It got so bad that Incarceration became calciumns number one industry. It would grow to employ the largest umber of people in the farming (Phillips). One of the other important f actors that save to do with the increase in enslavements was the fact that the state of California waged a war on drugs.The Federal dominance of Prisons (BOP) went from housing 21 ,539 Inmates In 1978 to 217,444 in 2011, reservation drug offenders 55% of the BOP population (Phillips 8). Although part of this prison rate Is In fact due(p) to the aggressive policing and harsh sentencing the criminals were given. This made Phillips think and extol if all of this was part of the solution or yet part of the business. From her extensive field work she goes on to say that the way the LAP approached the drug problem was in fact producing one of the problems they were trying so hard to prevent. Here she needed to take the following(a) step, on the inside. She began this step by living in the neighborhood of Pueblos, which was run by the African American and Hispanic race. She luckily befriended a local named Ben Kaplan and lived in that respect with his family. From there she was a ble to get a frontmost hand view point the ever so popular drug environment. She was also able to opine different sides of the spectrum like how he environment impact the families and communities alike. How the laws and actions of the natural law affected them as well.There use of surveillance, with wiretaps and confidential informants, having a contradict impact on the lives of the community. She figures out how the families are shaped through this sake in crime. Phillips research in all of this goes to put up how unbiased her book really is, she practiced neat reflexivity. All of her facts are hard facts that she went and lived first hand. She witnessed drug deals, witnessed people snorting cocaine, and dinettes the wiretaps that were given to drug dealers.All of this information she create verballys from is purely unbiased facts, writing from an etc perspective, her way of co- real with the people, sitting back and observing them, was how she approached her story. Phil lips goes on to write about how the incarceration of a family member affects the family as a whole. Unintended consequences include threaten or actual eviction, the involvement of child social services, desalinization of families, depression in children, and high mortality judge among already assailable people (Phillips 20).Arresting a drug dealer for â€Å"slinging” coke may front like a win for the police save in all reality it causes a snowball effect on the rest of the family that will have to deal with. Phillips findings go on to say how the police work unintentionally tears apart the family functionalism. The tho way to prevent crime is to have a salutary united family. Operation Fly Trap was the combined effort of the LAP that removed 28 key members of the local, gang- relate drug trade. They did a great line of work in reducing drug related crimes, however did very little in the gang related activity.Where the police succeed in incarceration rates, they spli t up in the goal to build a strong community. Phillips lasting conclusion in this ethnography is that incarceration can lead to increased poverty rates, negative health outcomes, rises in violence, and instability among already vulnerable families. Lastly the importance of manufacturing gangs as iconic, newly federalism villains (Phillips 21). Phillips, Susan A. Operation Fly Trap: L. A. Gangs, Drugs, and the Law. N. P. : n. P. , n. D. Print. â€Å"Susan A. Phillips. ” Susan A Phillips. N. P. , n. D. Web. 26 cot. 2013..\r\n'