The fence: a police cover-up along Boston's racial divide

The Cast of Characters

Map of Boston

Prologue: January 25, 1995

Part 1. Two Cops and a Drug Dealer

1. Mike Cox

2. Robert "Smut" Brown

3. Kenny Conley

4. The Troubled Boston PD

5. Mike's Early Police Career

6. Closing Time at the Cortee's

7. The Murder and the Chase

8. The Dead End

Part 2. True Blue

9. "8-Boy"

10. No Official Complaint

11. Can I Talk to My Lawyer?

12. Dave, I Know You Know Something

13. Cox v. Boston Police Department

Part 3. Justice Denied, Then the Trial

14. The White Guy at the Fence

15. The Perjury Trap

16. A Federal Miscarriage of Justice

17. On His Own

18. The Trial

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Author's Note on Sources

Notes

Appendix A. Court Cases

Appendix B. Books; Articles and Special Reports

Appendix C. Boston Police Department Rules and Regulations; Boston Police Department Internal Investigations; Boston Police Department Labor Arbitration Proceedings; Suffolk County District Attorney's Office; United States Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts

Index