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By Joby Warrick. 2011
Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post journalist details the December 30, 2009, gathering in Khost, Afghanistan, of CIA and U.S. military officials…
and Pakistani and Afghani operatives to meet Jordanian pediatrician and spy Humam Khalil al-Balawi. Relates Balawi's subsequent suicide bombing, which killed himself and seven CIA personnel. 2011By Gary May. 2005
Examines the role of FBI informant Gary Thomas Rowe Jr., who infiltrated the Alabama Klan and identified suspects in the…
1965 murder of civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo, a white woman from Detroit, while he participated in other race crimes. Criticizes the effectiveness of the FBI's reliance upon informants. 2005Cultural history of women in American law enforcement focuses on events that helped or hindered their progress toward equality. Uses…
archival documents and interviews to illuminate the expansion of women's roles from the 1840s, when matrons guarded prisoners, to the twenty-first century. Highlights incidents of workplace discrimination. Some violence. 2010By Don Lasseter, Ronald E. Bowers. 2009
Describes the short, troubled marriage of Rebecca Salcedo and Bruce Cleland, which ended with the 1997 shooting death of Bruce…
during a supposed carjacking. Details events surrounding the murder and the subsequent arrests and trials of Rebecca and her two cousins. Some violence and some descriptions of sex. 2009CIA-trained senior intelligence operations officer documents his years in Afghanistan following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Tells of leading black-ops teams…
against the Taliban and offers suggestions for winning the war on terror. Some text revised or redacted after the Pentagon expressed national security concerns. Violence and strong language. 2010By Christopher Dickey. 2009
Journalist chronicles the New York City Police Department's counterterrorism efforts led by Commissioner Ray Kelly and former CIA agent David…
Cohen, from 1995 to the post-9/11 climate. Contrasts the local tactical division's effectiveness and training techniques with those of federal organizations. Also discusses reduced American privacy. Some strong language. 2009By Cynthia Leal Massey. 2014
Discusses the murder of Texas Ranger John Green by Cesario Menchaca, one of three Rangers of Mexican descent under Green's…
command. Immediately word spread that the killing may have been the botched outcome of a contract taken out on Menchaca's life by the notorious Gabriel Marnoch, a local naturalist who had run up against the law himself. Adult. Some violenceBy Michael Simon. 2006
It's 1995 and Texas has a new governor, the heir to a political dynasty. As politicians and lobbyists converge on…
the capital, a former child star and recent porn actress is found murdered and a thirteen-year-old boy is sent out to make a treacherous living on the streets. All this is just some of what Dan Reles, Austin Homicide's only New Yorker and only Jew has to deal with. Violence, strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. 2006By Nate Blakeslee. 2005
In the summer of 1999, in the tiny west Texas town of Tulia, thirty nine people, almost all of them…
black, were arrested and charged with dealing powdered cocaine. The operation, a federally-funded investigation performed in cooperation with the local authorities, was based on the work of one notoriously unreliable undercover officer. At trial, the prosecution relied almost solely on the uncorroborated, and contradictory, testimony of that officer, Tom Coleman. "Tulia" is the story of this town, the bust, the trials, and the heroic legal battle that ultimately led to the reversal of the convictions in the summer of 2003. Some profanityBy Timothy Mahoney, Tim Mahoney. 2013
Among the most dangerous criminals of the public enemies era was a man who has long hidden in history's shadows:…
Tom Brown. In the early 1930s, while he was police chief of St. Paul, Minnesota, Brown became a secret partner of the infamous Barker gang. He profited from their violent crimes, he protected the gang from raids by the nascent FBI--and while he did all this, the gangsters gunned down cops and citizens in his hometown. UnratedBy Adam Eisenberg. 2009
The author includes the voices of 50 policewomen who served with the Seattle Police Department to tell the story of…
struggle, conflict and upheaval after a 1961 court decision signaled the end of segregation in police departments nationwide. The women share stories of dangerous encounters, discrimination and harassment. Some violence and strong language. 2009By Thad Sitton. 1988
Discusses the old ways of law enforcement as practiced by the rural Texas sheriff before 1965. The author interviewed current…
(at time of publication) and former sheriffs from across the state whose careers in some cases spanned more than thirty years. The stories reveal not only their unique character in maintaining law and order but also their important social role in the community as marriage counselor, friend and confidant, arbiter over property disputes, and legal advisor. Strong language and violenceBy Howard Roberts Lamar, Howard R. Lamar, Howard Lamar. 2005
Charlie Siringo (1855-1928) lived the quintessential life of adventure on the American frontier as a cowboy, Pinkerton detective, writer, and…
later as a consultant for early western films. Siringo was one of the most attractive, bold, and original characters to live and flourish in the final decades of the Wild West. Descriptions of sex, strong language and violenceBy Larry Nevers. 2007
In 1979 seven Norman Rockwell paintings and a supposed Renoir, later discovered to be a forgery, were stolen from Elayne's…
Gallery in Edina. It is still the biggest theft in Minnesota history, and no one was ever convicted for the crime. This is the story of the theft, the investigation, and the twenty-year quest to return the art to its rightful owners. Some strong languageBy Robert Tanzilo. 2010
By Bruce Davis. 2005
In January 1932, ten local lawmen approached two brothers in an isolated Missouri farmhouse. Minutes later, six officers were dead,…
three were wounded, and the outlaws escaped, only to be captured in Houston, Texas days later. ViolenceBy Harel Shapira. 2013
The author spent several years patrolling the Arizona-Mexico border alongside the Minutemen. He discovered that the volunteers were mostly comprised…
of older veterans seeking renewed purpose and community, which they found in their search for illegal immigrants. Some strong languageBy Gary L. Stuart. 2008
Analysis of the landmark 1966 Supreme Court case that created the Miranda warnings read to suspects upon arrest. Discusses the…
battles that followed, including a conflicting federal statute that threatened to overrule the Miranda decision in 2000By Francis Russell. 2005
When its entire police force went out on strike in 1919, the city of Boston was rocked by two days…
of chaos and mob rule -- and by fierce denounciations of the police union from politicians across the country. Never again would a major police force go out on strike, and almost overnight the Baystate's taciturn governor, Calvin Coolidge, became a national figure. Written with verve and authority, here is the story of a seminal but often overlooked turning point in American history