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NYPD: a city and its police
By James Lardner, Thomas Reppetto, Thomas A. Reppetto. 2000
New York City's police department from the 1820s to the late twentieth century. Describes the force as the oldest in…
America and the model upon which others have been patterned. Examines the NYPD's relationship with inner-city residents and looks at headline stories from the 1990s involving accusations of torture and wrongful death. 2000Serpico
By Peter Maas, Frank Serpico. 1997
The suspense-filled biography of Frank Serpico, the New York City plainclothesman whose undercover work and testimony on police corruption triggered…
the formation of the New York Knapp Commission. Strong language. 1973The lost son: a life in pursuit of justice
By Bernard B Kerik, Bernard B. Kerik. 2001
Autobiography of the commissioner of the New York City police department. Describes growing up tough in New Jersey, his stint…
in the military, investigating his mother's murder, and his career in the NYPD. Afterword deals with the terrorist events of September 11, 2001. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. 2001Tainting evidence: inside the scandals at the FBI crime lab
By John F Kelly, John Kelly, Phillip Wearne, John F. Kelly. 1998
Reviews the FBI's crime laboratory and challenges the reliability of its forensic work. Cites ineptness in solving several notable criminal…
cases including those associated with O.J. Simpson, the Unabomber, Ruby Ridge crisis, the World Trade Center bombing, and the Oklahoma City bombingThe great adventure: how the Mounties conquered the West
By David Cruise, Allison Griffiths. 1997
Recounts the origins and early years of the North West Mounted Police (later, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police). Chronicles the…
Great March of 1874, when the Mounties trekked 900 miles to pacify Indian territory, end the whiskey trade, patrol the border, and establish Canadian law in the frontier. Based on diaries and first-hand accounts. ViolenceVeteran political reporter Lou Cannon dissects the Rodney King trial and its aftermath of riots. He concludes that the style…
of government in Southern California led to many of the problems, first within the police department and then within the judicial system. Cannon also explores the various myths he feels were perpetuated by the media. BestsellerWyatt Earp: the life behind the legend
By Casey Tefertiller. 1997
A balanced portrait of a renowned frontier lawman, whose exploits helped form the modern image of the Old West. Traces…
his career as a prospector, gambler, and marshal of Tombstone, Arizona, where he became a legend in the gunfight at the O.K. CorralTo protect and to serve: the LAPD's century of war in the city of dreams
By Joe Domanick, Joe A. Domanick. 1994
A critical depiction of the Los Angeles Police Department as an arrogant and oppressive force that long served the interests…
of the wealthy establishment. Traces the department's history up to the Rodney King beating incident and the riots of the early 1990s, which triggered reforms. Strong language and violenceOperation Solo: the FBI's man in the Kremlin
By John Barron. 1996
An account of the FBI's Cold War espionage operation against the Soviet Union using double agent Morris Childs. As a…
high official of the American Communist Party from the 1950s to the 1970s, Childs was privy to super-secret Soviet information, which he passed to the FBI. Recounts times when Childs was almost exposedAmbush at Ruby Ridge: how government agents set Randy Weaver up and took his family down
By Alan W Bock, Alan W. Bock. 1995
Syndicated columnist recounts the 1992 standoff between government agents and separatist Randy Weaver, a federal fugitive wanted on a weapons…
charge. Holed up with his family in a cabin on their Idaho property, Ruby Ridge, Weaver was not taken into custody until after his wife and son were killed by agents. Bock discusses what led to the siege and the highly publicized trial that followedWedge: the secret war between the FBI and CIA
By Mark Riebling. 1994
Riebling chronicles the feud between the FBI and CIA from World War II. Using declassified documents and in-depth interviews with…
former agents from both agencies, the author discusses the terms of J. Edgar Hoover (FBI) and William J. Donovan (CIA) and the careers of James Jesus Angleton (CIA) and Aldrich Ames (CIA). He also suggests ways by which the agencies might work together. Some strong languageSecrets de flic (Points)
By Bernard Petit. 2019
L'auteur évoque sa carrière en tant que directeur de la police judiciaire. Cette-ci prend fin brutalement en février 2015, lorsque…
le ministre de l'Intérieur le suspend de ses fonctions. Cherchant les causes de sa disgrâce, l'ex-chef du 36 quai des Orfèvres évoque ses plus grandes enquêtes, au cours desquelles se mêlent guerre des polices, terrorisme, crime organisé et délinquance financière.The commandos: the inside story of America's secret soldiers
By Douglas C Waller. 1994
Waller, defence and foreign policy correspondent for Newsweek, reports on the work of the more than 40,000 soldiers in the…
United States Special Operations Command. He spent time with four groups -- Green Berets, Delta Force, Navy SEALS, and Pave Low teams -- as well as with former members of these special forces. He also discusses their involvement in Desert Storm. Includes strong language and violence. c1994.Never let them see you cry: more from Miami, America's hottest beat
By Edna Buchanan. 1992
Taking up where The Corpse Had a Familiar Face (DB 28100) left off, Miami journalist Buchanan provides more anecdotes from…
her years on the newspaper police beat. A woman frames her toddler for murder, and elderly residents kill their longtime spouses. But Buchanan also writes of the happy endings when help from readers pours in after touching stories. ViolenceSubmarine: a guided tour inside a nuclear warship
By Tom Clancy. 1993
The bestselling author of military fiction gives a detailed description of nuclear attack submarines of the 1990s. After a brief…
history and explanation of building techniques and crew qualifications, Clancy goes aboard a 688I -- "the finest SSN roaming the oceans today." He explains every aspect of the USS Miami before moving on to tour a British vessel and provide updates on submarines throughout the world. Bestseller. 1993.The Norton book of modern war
By Paul Fussell. 1991
From the first "modern" war, World War I, to the Asian wars in Korea and Vietnam, poems, articles, letters, reminiscences,…
and fiction reflect the mood of each era. Pieces range from the 1914 letter of a Scottish soldier to his father and John Dos Passos's 1938 article "Room and Bath at the Hotel Florida" to "Redeployment," Howard Neverov's poem of postwar speculation, and the Vietnam War memoirs of Ron Kovic and Tim O'Brien. c1991. "Never such innocence again": Peace / MCMXIV / Epitaph on an army of mercenaries / Another epitaph on an army of mercenaries / To his father / Authors take sides: From my last sigh (Trans. Abigail Israel) / From some still live / Room and bath at the Hotel Florida / From wind, sand, and stars (Trans. Lewis Galantiere) / From Homage to Catalonia / Almost beyond human conception: To a conscript of 1940 / All day it has rained / Lessons of the war / For Johnny; Missing / When a beau goes in; Incident, Second World War / Obscenity without victory: From War in Korea, the report of a woman combat correspondent / From the face of war, reflections on men and combat (Trans. Beth de Bilio) / Lance Corporal Purdue Grace, U.S.M.C. / From James Jones, a friendship / Armistice / From a journey for our times / From Address to the Corps of Cadets, West Point, May 12, 1962 / Your attention please /Chief: my life in the L.A.P.D
By Diane K. Shah, Daryl F Gates, Daryl Gates. 1992
Former head of the Los Angeles Police Department defends the policies that made this force famous. Gates is proud of…
the professional style that challenges politicians and the press and pits law enforcement against any member of the community who questions authority. Gates gives a personal account of his dedication to a job that changed rapidly on his watch. Some strong language and some violenceRogue warrior
By Richard Marcinko, John Weisman. 1992
Marcinko describes his 30-year career in the United States Navy, from basic training through Vietnam to his assignment as commander…
of SEAL Team Six, the Navy's counterterrorist unit. Strong language and violence. Followed by "Rogue warrior II: Red Cell". Bestseller 1992.#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER A shocking exposé of the deadliest killing spree in Canadian history, and how police tragically failed its…
victims and survivors.As news broke of a killer rampaging across the tiny community of Portapique, Nova Scotia, late on April 18, 2020, details were oddly hard to come by. Who was the killer? Why was he not apprehended? What were police doing? How many were dead? And why was the gunman still on the loose the next morning and killing again? The RCMP was largely silent then, and continued to obscure the actions of denturist Gabriel Wortman after an officer shot and killed him at a gas station during a chance encounter. Though retired as an investigative journalist and author, Paul Palango spent much of his career reporting on Canada’s troubled national police force. Watching the RCMP stumble through the Portapique massacre, only a few hours from his Nova Scotia home, Palango knew the story behind the headlines was more complicated and damning than anyone was willing to admit. With the COVID-19 lockdown sealing off the Maritimes, no journalist in the province knew the RCMP better than Palango did. Within a month, he was back in print and on the radio, peeling away the layers of this murderous episode as only he could, and unearthing the collision of failure and malfeasance that cost a quiet community 22 innocent lives.Dangerous dossiers: exposing the secret war against America's greatest authors
By Herbert Mitgang. 1988
A correspondent for the "New York Times," with a background in Army Air Corps counterintelligence during World War II, brings…
to light the policies and procedures by which the FBI developed dossiers on authors thought to be subversive. His purpose is to demonstrate how dangerous the practice is--damaging not only to individual freedom, but also to national values