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By 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 historyBy 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. 2004