Law Enforcement category: 654 books
Silenced
The Untold Story of the Fight for Equality in the RCMP
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
When thirty-two women were hired as mounted police officers in 1974, it was a media sensation. After all, these were not the brawny heroes of Canadian history, or the dashing and handsome Mounties portrayed in over two hundred Hollywood movies. Women were thought to be afraid of guns and incapable...
Badge of Madness
The True Story of a Psychotic Cop
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
This is the shocking true story of a New York City cop caught in a web of paranoia, guns, a distorted sense of good and evil, and impending disaster…an actual case study with chilling psychological implications.
His name was Pete Bon Viso, a poor city kid who made good by joining the Force....
by Justice K. T. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
This book contains reminiscences of the Author as Judge for twenty-five years. Apart from a few travelogue and acquaintances with personages, the descriptions are live stories of human life displayed in different courts where he was judge. The author has avoided narrating matrimonial disputes due...
by John R. Alstadt Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
April 28, 1923, marks the birth of the Delaware State Police. Discussions occurred as early as 1906 for a statewide police organization to cope with speeding automobiles, roving bands of troublemakers, and the ever-present bootleggers. Prohibition and the 18th Amendment brought the discussion to the...
by V. R. Krishna Iyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2004
The book contains a collection of recollections of the author spanning his days as student, at the bar, as legislator and minister, as judge of the Supreme Court and as a convinced crusader for public causes in the long years spent after superannuation. In a sense, they have uniqueness and historical value and project thoughts and express views which have relevance not withered by time.
Jafr
The Girl Behind the Badge
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2016
Can you believe this? The suspect is a DEA agent? He went ballistic and murdered his ex girlfriend in front of her family? Want to hear the best part? The victims boyfriend was hiding in the closet and saw the whole thing. My hands grew clammy and I thought I was going to throw up the dinner I had...
by W. Cleon Skousen
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Learn the inside story of how FBI agents helped to stop organized crime in the 1930’s and 1940’s. This previously unpublished book was created from various articles written by W. Cleon Skousen for the FBI magazine <em>The Investigator</em>. It contains many true and fascinating accounts...
by W. Cleon Skousen
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
In this book, W. Cleon Skousen reviews the Communist-led mob techniques used by agitated crowds to overpower local police. He encourages police officers to be vigilant and aware of these strategies. He also describes those areas where the police are being politically handicapped in their ability to perform their jobs, and encourages citizens to support their local police officers.
Victorian Convicts
100 Criminal Lives
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
What was life like in the Victorian underworld – who were the criminals, what crimes did they commit, how did they come to a criminal career, and what happened to them after they were released from prison? Victorian Convicts, by telling the stories of a hundred criminal men and women, gives the...
San Diego Police
Case Files
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
A Pacific Coast metropolis famous for beautiful beaches and perfect weather and an American municipality since 1850, San Diego is America�s eighth-largest city. Known as America�s �Finest City,� it contains a wealth of history�evolutionary as well as revolutionary�in its crime files. Among...
Urban Legends
Gang Identity in the Post-Industrial City
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
As the youth gang phenomenon becomes an important and sensitive public issue, communities from Los Angeles to Rio, Cape Town to London are facing the reality of what such violent groups mean for their children and young people. Complex dangers and instabilities, as well as high levels of public fear...
Everything on the Line:
Calming & De-escalation of Aggressive & Mentally Ill Individuals on the Phone - A Comprehensive Guidebook for Emergency Dispatch (9-1-1) Centers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Although call-takers at an Emergency Dispatch Center are under no immediate physical threat, they are often the focus of intense verbal violence. In this comprehensive guidebook, Ellis Amdur, with the assistance of consultants whose cumulative experience in emergency call-taking and emergency dispatch...
From Chaos to Compliance:
Communication, Control, and De-escalation of Mentally Ill & Aggressive Offenders - A Comprehensive Guidebook for Parole and Probation Officers
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Parole and probation officers must deal with individuals suffering from psychiatric or substance abuse disorders on a frequent basis. Ellis Amdur and Alan Pelton offer parole and probation officers a comprehensive set of strategies to keep themselves as well as the general public safe, while functioning...
by Diem Burden
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2012
Warning: Contains strong language and graphic descriptions of death and injuries.
This is the true story of British soldier Diem Burden. His life is at a crossroads; his military career is rapidly coming to an end and he has no idea of what to do next. With a young family to support, pressure...