Law Enforcement category: 654 books

A complete and concise guide to the selection, use and maintenance of both revolvers and semi-automatic handguns. Includes: Handgun Functioning, Care and Cleaning. Firearms Safety. Discussion of Basic Legal Issues, Tips on Training Others and a Sample Personal Firearms Records are also included.

This text is designed to provide students with a basic and philosophical understanding of the investigatory process regarding conspiracy crime(s). Through this text, students will explore the fundamental and advanced features of investigation, duties and responsibilities of relevant criminal justice...

Full text of selected Drug and Narcotic laws from the Business and Professions, Penal, Vehicle and the Welfare & Institutions Codes. In addition, this publication contains the statutes that comprise the UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT from the Health & Safety Code.

A revelatory account of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as criminals Punishment Without Crime offers an urgent new interpretation of inequality and injustice in America by examining the paradigmatic American offense: the lowly misdemeanor. Based on extensive...

This text is designed to introduce the concepts involved in planning for and managing a mass casualty and/or a mass fatality incident from the local to regional to national perspectives. Topics include natural, accidental and intentional events, analyzing local resources, and how to request and receive...

An introduction to the investigative concepts involved in the dynamics of processing the aftermath of a criminal incident. Covers how to respond to crime scenes, and examines the multitude of responsibilities involved, such as: the identifying and preserving evidence, isolating and interviewing witnesses,...

This popular ATF publication, State Laws and Published Ordinances - Firearms, has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text ebook format reproduction - and is actually easier to read than the original document. Because of its massive size, it was necessary to split this document...

This text is designed to provide college students, peace officers and criminal justice professionals, as well as those who aspire to become professional interviewers, with comprehensive and in depth information on the art and science of interview, interrogation and eyewitness testimony. The author...

This guide includes information regarding drug paraphernalia, symptoms of influence, effects, duration, methods of ingestion, overdose symptoms, field drug testing procedures, gateway drugs, a street slang glossary and more. It also includes 208 color photos of illicit street drugs including GHB, Rohypnol, ecstasy, jimson weed and spice.

In 1922 the fledgling Irish Free State decided to replace the RIC with the Civic Guard (An Garda Síochána). This new Irish police force found itself dealing with an unsettled population, many of whom were suspicions of law and order after centuries of forceful policing by the British. It was decided...

“Beautifully written, painfully honest” first-person accounts of racial profiling, as experienced by a dozen black men from all over America (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow). In an era of contentious debate about controversial police practices and, more broadly, the significance...

Despite its suspected prevalence, no comprehensive analysis of police corruption has been published for nearly three decades. Fallen Blue Knights provides a systematic, in-depth analysis of the subject, while also addressing the question of what can be done to ensure successful corruption control....

Designed to be of assistance in preparation as a witness in criminal and civil cases. Written to be used in and one of three ways: As a Training Academy Workbook, a Clinical Courtroom Testimony Guide or a Training Resource Workbook.

In the War on Terror, there are no set battles. The fanatical enemy adheres to no warrior code or international law. Their only desire is to kill—or be killed. That’s where the snipers of the U.S. Marines, Army, and Navy SEALs come in . . . Here, in their own words, are the compelling...