Law Enforcement category: 654 books
Armed and Dangerous
Memoirs of a Chicago Policewoman
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2002
The critically acclaimed memoirs of one female police officer's sixteen-year odyssey, beginning with day one at the Police Academy and spanning assignments on Chicago's West Side, one of the most dangerous areas in the city.
The notorious cops' code of silence is broken as the author recounts...
by Cicéron, Ch. du Rozoir
Language: French
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: October 15, 2014
CICÉRON l’emporta sur Cécilius, et fut choisi pour accusateur de Verrès. Il demanda et obtint cent dix jours afin d’aller recueillir en Sicile des preuves et des témoignages ; mais il n’en mit que cinquante dans l’accomplissement de cette mission. Il s’était...
23/7
Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
How America’s prisons turned a “brutal and inhumane” practice into standard procedure Originally meant to be brief and exceptional, solitary confinement in U.S. prisons has become long-term and common. Prisoners spend twenty-three hours a day in featureless cells, with no visitors or human contact...
The Ballad of Ben and Stella Mae
Great Plains Outlaws Who Became FBI Public Enemies Nos. 1 and 2
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
On August 25, 1938, twenty-five-year-old Ben Dickson and his fifteen-year-old wife Stella Mae robbed the Corn Exchange Bank in Elkton, South Dakota, making off with $2,187.64. Two months later they hit a bank in nearby Brookings for $17,593—after waiting two hours for the vault’s time-lock to...
I, Spy
How to Be Your Own Private Investigator
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Have you ever wanted to be your own private eye? Have you ever wanted to track down long-lost relatives or people who've scammed you? Have you ever wanted to know if your kids really are where they say they are? Or if your significant other is cheating on you? Or how to locate assets in order to collect...
Fear and Crime in Latin America
Redefining State-Society Relations
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The feeling of insecurity is a little known phenomenon that has been only partially explored by social sciences. However, it has a deep social, cultural and economic impact and may even contribute to define the very structures of the state. In Latin America, fear of crime has become an important stumbling...
by David Mamet
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Anarchist [an/er-kist] n.1. A person who opposes the authority of the state.2. A person who causes disorder or upheaval.3. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet’s new play about one woman who is put away for life, and another who is committed to her rehabilitation. Students of Mamet won’t...
by Edward E. Rochon
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
A brief preface opines the problem of a country that cannot control access to its own territory and proclaims the essay as an open letter to America. Chapter 1 proposes a 3 layer ECM (Electronics Counter-Measures) wall set up by military units as part of their training to get double use of expenditures....
by Mark Andreas
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2016
In this unusual booklet, a former Cincinnati police officer with a 30-year police career, details his experience of using totally outside-the-box approaches to managing and resolving conflict. While working on the Cincinnati police force, Mr. Gardner was given responsibility for the most volatile...
Apprehensions & Convictions
Adventures of a 50-Year-Old Rookie Cop
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
What makes a fifty-year-old man quit a highly successful career in charity work to take on the low-paid, dangerous job of being a police officer? When Mark Johnson left the United Way to become the oldest rookie in the Mobile, Alabama, police department, he didn’t just have to adjust to a new career—he...
90 Church
Inside America's Notorious First Narcotics Squad
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
MAD MEN MEETS THE WIRE IN THIS GRIPPING TRUE-CRIME MEMOIR BY A FORMER AGENT AT THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF NARCOTICS IN 1960s NEW YORK
Before Nixon famously declared a "war on drugs," there was the Federal Bureau of Narcotics.
New York City in the mid-1960s: The war in Vietnam was on the...
Seattle Justice
The Rise and Fall of the Police Payoff System in Seattle
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
This is the story of one of the youngest county prosecutors in the country whose mission was to finally end the system of vice and corruption that had infiltrated Seattle's police department, municipal departments, and even the mayor's office. In the late 1960s, Christopher T. Bayley was a young lawyer...
Hour Before Dawn
The Fall and Uncertain Rise of the Philippine Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
HOUR BEFORE DAWN takes the reader to what might have been the darkest hour of the Philippine Supreme Court, when its integrity was compromised by the actions of its Chief Justice, who was subsequently impeached, and by a series of highly irregular reversals of its own rulings.
It reveals...
Cross-Country Evil
The Shocking True Story of an Eighteen-Year Manhunt for a Killer on the Run
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
From the author of No Good Deed comes a true-crime shocker.
On June 11, 1988, 27-year-old Janet Moore was stabbed to death in her San Diego apartment. After clues and leads went nowhere, her sad and tragic murder became a cold case. But detectives never gave up on her.
Eighteen years...