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Good order and safety
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Allen Eugene Wagner |
"Examines the beginnings of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, from 1861 to 1906, when St. Louis was the fourth-largest city in the United States"--Provided by publisher. |
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Bullets, bombs, and fast talk
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James Botting |
A desperate gunman holds a planeload of innocent passengers hostage. A heavily armed cult leader refuses to leave his compound, threatening mass suicide by a hundred of his brainwashed followers. A n… |
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Murder for hire
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Jack Ballentine |
Jack Ballentine became a Phoenix police officer in 1978 and quickly rose to become one of the world's most successful undercover operatives. His specialty: posing as a hit man. None of the people who… |
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Between Good and Evil
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Roger L Depue |
He was a pioneer in modern law enforcement, a trailblazing leader in the hunt for serial killers. But after decades of staring deep into the darkness, he entered a seminary to search for the good... … |
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Understanding Police Use of Force
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Geoffrey P Alpert |
Whenever police officers come into contact with citizens there is a chance that the encounter will digress to one in which force is used on a suspect. Fortunately, most police activities do not invol… |
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The United States Coast Guard and national defense
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Thomas P. Ostrom |
"This chronicle of the Coast Guard's contributions to national defense examines participation in World War I, World War II, Korea, the Cold War, Vietnam, and the War on Terror. Among the topics explo… |
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Police officer exam for dummies
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Raymond E. Foster |
Presents an overview of the police officer hiring process, offers tips on preparing for the tests, and includes four practice exams. |
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Gangster squad
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Paul Lieberman |
Recounts the history of the Gangster Squad, the eight man unit created by the Los Angeles Police Department in 1946, that launched a war against organized crime and planned to wipe out the notorious … |
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Understanding today's police
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Mark L. Dantzker |
xx, 427 p. : 24 cm |
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Challenging the prison-industrial complex
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Stephen J. Hartnett |
Boldly and eloquently contributing to the argument against the prison system in the United States, these provocative essays offer an ideological and practical framework for empowering prisoners inste… |
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Murderer with a badge
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Edward Humes |
The explosive true story of a killer cop. Pulitzer Prize-winner Humes, the first to break the story, conducted exclusive jail-cell interviews with convicted LAPD officer Bill Leasure to give an enthr… |
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Essentials of criminal justice
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Larry J. Siegel |
xvi, 370 pages : 27 cm |
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Rise of the warrior cop
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Radley Balko |
Relates the history of American police forces from the constables and sheriffs of the past to the modern-day SWAT teams and riot squads that blur the line between police officers and soldiers. |
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Handcuffed
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Malcolm K. Sparrow |
"The police shooting of an unarmed young black man in the St. Louis, Missouri, suburb of Ferguson earlier this year sparked riots and the beginning of a national conversation on race and policing. Mu… |
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When police kill
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Franklin E. Zimring |
When Police Kill is the first comprehensive analysis of police use of lethal force in the United States. The first seven chapters of this volume provide a summary and analysis of the known facts abou… |
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Good cops
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David A. Harris |
"Police departments across the country have begun to embrace a new approach to law enforcement, which David A. Harris calls "preventive policing." Based on five years of research, Good Cops highlight… |
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Policing the state
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Louis A. Ruprecht |
xviii, 103 pages ; 23 cm |
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Justice without trial
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Jerome H. Skolnick |
A Utopian community organized around behaviorist principles offers provocative alternatives to a society lacking direction. |
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City of Savannah, Georgia police
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David LaGrange |
This "coffee table edition" is a snapshot of the Savannah Police Department as it existed at the beginning of the year 2000. There is a historical narrative of roughly 30,000 words written by the li… |
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Into the Kill Zone
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David Klinger |
What's it like to have the legal sanction to shoot and kill? This compelling and often startling book answers this, and many other questions about the oft-times violent world inhabited by our nation'… |
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