Geographic index for Crime Encyclopedia entries involving Harlem, organized by historical period and network.
This is a crime-history index, not a general history of Harlem. Crime entries should be integrated with the broader Harlem encyclopedia so that narcotics and violence are treated as one dimension of a neighborhood with major political, cultural, religious, commercial, and intellectual histories.
Parallel-market note: Lucas’s organization and Nicky Barnes’s Council overlapped in era and market but were separate organizations.
Harlem crime history contains both unusually strong federal case records and extensive later oral history. Court records should control legal attribution; biographies, documentaries, participant interviews, and music references should be preserved as cultural or oral-history sources and labeled accordingly.