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By Bruce Bennett, Michael Codella. 2010
By Christopher T. Bayley. 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 with a fire in his belly to break the back of Seattle's police payoff system, built on illegal activity known as the "tolerance policy."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.By Rinaldo Walcott. 2021
From plantation rebellion to prison labour's super-exploitation, Walcott examines the relationship between policing and property. That a man can lose…
his life for passing a fake $20 bill when we know our economies are flush with fake money says something damning about the way we've organized society. Yet the intensity of the calls to abolish the police after George Floyd's death surprised almost everyone. What, exactly, does abolition mean? How did we get here? And what does property have to do with it? In On Property , Rinaldo Walcott explores the long shadow cast by slavery's afterlife and shows how present-day abolitionists continue the work of their forebears in service of an imaginative, creative philosophy that ensures freedom and equality for all. Thoughtful, wide-ranging, compassionate, and profound, On Property makes an urgent plea for a new ethics of care. Bespeak Audio Editions brings Canadian voices to the world with audiobook editions of some of the country's greatest works of literature, performed by Canadian actorsBy Bryan Burrough. 2009
Discusses events that led to the FBI's 1933-1936 "war on crime" led by J. Edgar Hoover. Examines activities of John…
Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, Machine Gun Kelly, and Bonnie and Clyde to depict depression-era robbers and murderers. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. 2004By Harold Schechter. 2008
Selection of American crime reporting that spans three centuries, from Plymouth Colony governor William Bradford's description of a seventeenth-century hanging…
to Dominick Dunne's 2001 account of the Menendez brothers' patricide. Traces cultural shifts in true-crime writing, from its religious origins to its commercialization and sensationalization. Violence and strong language. 2008By Ali A Allawi. 2007
Allawi, in exile for over 30 years, returned in 2003 to serve in the post-war Iraqi government. Although recognizing the…
deep roots of Iraq's internal strife and the extent to which the American invasion destroyed the fragile equilibrium holding the nation together under Saddam, Allawi emphasizes the more proximate causes of Iraq's decline, cataloguing dozens of missed opportunities and unintended consequences amid a culture of confusion, corruption, and administrative complacency. Some descriptions of violence. c2007.By Paul Hendrickson. 2003
Using interviews, archival materials, and a thought-provoking 1962 Life magazine picture of seven white lawmen preparing for integration of the…
University of Mississippi, a prize-winning journalist examines the life of each photographed man and of his offspring to determine whose racial attitudes have changed and whose remain untouched. 2003By John O'Connor, Mark Felt, W. Mark Felt. 2006
The author, the FBI's second in command after the death of J. Edgar Hoover, draws from his memoirs, correspondence, and…
memos to reconstruct his long career with the agency. With the help of his lawyer John O'Connor, Felt describes his work, role in the Watergate affair, and personal tragedies. 2006By Charles Stone, Henry Schuster. 2005
Reconstructs the five-year hunt for Eric Rudolph, the prime suspect in the 1996 Summer Olympics bombing. Follows the police investigation…
as Rudolph hides in the North Carolina mountains and continues his crime spree by attacking two abortion clinics and a gay nightclub. Violence and strong language. 2005By Roger L. Depue, Susan Schindehette. 2005
Autobiography of the former head of FBI behavioral sciences unit, which profiles serial killers. Describing his career, Dupue covers law…
enforcement, infamous cases, and post-retirement consulting work. Relates entering a Catholic seminary upon his wife's death and eventually counseling prisoners. Violence and strong language. 2005By Louis J. Freeh, Howard Means. 2005
Former FBI director (1993-2001) describes his career as an FBI agent, federal prosecutor, and judge. Criticizes the Clinton administration's policies…
and response to the 1996 terrorist bombing at Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia. Asserts that President Clinton's numerous personal scandals distracted the Bureau from other investigations. Bestseller. 2005By Michael Dobbs. 2004
Washington Post reporter describes Operation Pastorius, the first German sabotage mission to reach U.S. shores. Having researched FBI archives, the…
author describes Hitler's 1942 plan to cripple American defense industries. Discusses saboteurs' background and training; their FBI capture, trial, and execution; and precedents set for handling terrorists. 2004By Bettina Giancana, Sam Giancana, Michael Corbitt. 2003
An account of the author's rise within the Chicago Mafia's ranks from the late 1950s through the 1980s, his career…
as a policeman while on the mob's payroll, and his eventual imprisonment. Provides insider view of the Mafia's connections to politicians, federal agencies, and foreign governments. Violence and strong language. 2003By Charles Bowden. 2002
Journalist reconstructs the 1995 murder of Lionel Bruno Jordan in El Paso, Texas, and the subsequent search for the truth…
by his DEA-agent brother. The trail leads to hypocrisy and corruption as Bowden implicates Mexico and the United States as willing partners in the drug trade. Violence and some strong language. 2002By David Wise. 2002
Details the life and career of FBI counterintelligence agent Robert Hanssen, who spied for the Russians for more than twenty…
years. Uses interviews with Hanssen's colleagues, family, and psychiatrist to ascertain the motives behind his betrayal. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2002Journalist explores the lives of Randy and Vicki Weaver and the influences that led them from Christian fundamentalism to white…
supremacy. Describes the family's 1992 standoff with federal agents at Ruby Ridge, Idaho; the actions of the U.S. Justice Department; and the subsequent investigation. Some violence and some strong language. 1995By Ronald Kessler. 2002
Comprehensive history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, from its beginning in 1908 through the September 11, 2001, World Trade…
Center and Pentagon attacks and the war on terrorism. Assesses the bureau's failures and accomplishments, including the Watergate scandal and the Waco disaster. By the author of The FBI (DB 37795). Some strong language. 2002By Dick Lehr, Gerard O'Neill. 2000
Investigative journalists expose FBI corruption. In 1975 Boston FBI agent John Connolly began using Irish mobster Jim "Whitey" Bulger as…
an informant. Though Bulger committed outrageous crimes, the state police and federal drug agents were never able to get a conviction, and authorities became suspicious of a fix. Violence and strong language. 2000By Christopher Whitcomb. 2001
Memoir by an FBI special agent. Describes his rigorous training and early missions investigating bank robberies, drug busts, and crank…
phone calls of Martian kidnapping. He joins the Hostage Rescue Team as a sniper and is involved at Ruby Ridge, Waco, and Kosovo. Violence and strong language. 2001