Law Enforcement category: 654 books
Overblown
How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2006
Why have there been no terrorist attacks in the United States since 9/11? It is ridiculously easy for a single person with a bomb-filled backpack, or a single explosives-laden automobile, to launch an attack. So why hasn't it happened? The answer is surely not the Department of Homeland Security,...
by Alex S. Vitale
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself
Recent years have seen an explosion of protest against police brutality and repression. Among activists, journalists and politicians, the conversation about how to respond and improve policing has focused on accountability, diversity, training,...
Eliot Ness
The Real Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2000
This is the definitive biography of the famous crimefighter, Eliot Ness.
Behind the Hollywood legend portrayed by Robert Stack and Kevin Costner is a fascinating and highly effective lawman whose courage and cunning helped the federal government bring down Scarface Al Capone in gangland Chicago.
Ness...
Incendiary
The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber, and the Invention of Criminal Profiling
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Long before the specter of terrorism haunted the public imagination, a serial bomber stalked the streets of 1950s New York. The race to catch him would give birth to a new science called criminal profiling.
Grand Central, Penn Station, Radio City Music Hall—for almost two decades, no place...
Leading policing in Europe
An empirical study of strategic police leadership
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Little is known about those at the command end of policing in Europe. Over the last two years, Bryn Caless and Steve Tong have had unique access to those at the top of Europe's police forces, obtaining detailed comments from more than a hundred strategic police leaders in 22 countries and presenting,...
Walking Away from Terrorism
Accounts of Disengagement from Radical and Extremist Movements
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
This accessible new book looks at how and why individuals leave terrorist movements, and considers the lessons and implications that emerge from this process.
Focusing on the tipping points for disengagement from groups such as Al Qaeda, the IRA and the UVF, this volume is informed by the...
by Richard Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Dive into the fascinating world of the criminal investigator, this textbook unveils the tools and techniques used by today's law enforcement professionals. Learn the techniques and tactics used by the world’s best police force K-9 units, and better understand the bond between policeman and four-legged...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
This is the first report of progress in producing a NextGen Unmanned Aircraft Systems Research, Development and Demonstration Roadmap (NextGen UAS RD&D Roadmap). The activity was established to enable a responsive, efficient, timely, coordinated multiagency Research and Development (R&D) effort...
by Larry S. Miller, Harry W. More, Michael C. Braswell
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Outstanding first-line supervisors are essential to the success of any law enforcement agency, yet many officers lack the supervision training necessary to excel. E**ffective Police Supervision immerses readers in the group behaviors and organizational dynamics supervisors must master in order to...
Shapeshifting for Correctional Facility CNT/HNT
Effective Scenario Training for Crisis/Hostage Negotiation Teams
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Hostage Negotiation Within Correctional Facilities
This book concerns crisis/hostage negotiation within correctional facilities. It is not only for ‘in-house’ CNT/HNT teams within prisons. Most jails and other community level correctional facilities do not have their own negotiation team...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
For sixty years, the FBI has sought the public's assistance in a special way through one of our most effective and longest running publicity programs— the "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list. In 1949, reporter James Donovan asked the FBI to identify the "toughest guys" we were investigating...
by Sarah Burns
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
**A must-read after watching Ava DuVernay's When They See Us
In this spellbinding account of the real facts of the Central Park jogger case, Sarah Burns powerfully reexamines one of New York City's most notorious crimes and its aftermath.**
On April 20th, 1989, two passersby discovered...
Peckerwood in the Hood
Misadventures of a Kansas City Cop
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Peckerwood in the Hood is the brutally honest tale of an average white cop’s gut-wrenching journey through Heaven and Hell as he tries to police a largely minority inner city. Adrenaline rushes, sleepless nights, gunfights, wrestling criminals, suspicion, dark humor, anxiety, protective instinct,...
by Paul Campbell, John Glancy, George Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
The Providence Police Department has served New England�s second-largest city from its beginnings in 1651 with the appointment of a town sergeant to today�s force of nearly 500 men and women. Officially established in 1864, policing in Providence has changed considerably from the days of night watchmen...