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22) A dark so deadly
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
DC Callum MacGregors career was going pretty well until he covered up for a cock-up to protect his pregnant crime-scene tech girlfriend. Now Callums stuck on a squad with all the other misfits the officers no one else wants but who cant be fired. Never likely to get within reach of a decent case again. Until they accidentally get handed the biggest murder investigation Oldcastle has ever seen. When a mummified body is found in the local rubbish dump,...
23) KOP killer
Author
Series
KOP novels volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Juno Mozambe once had a life. That was when he was a dirty cop, married to a woman who suffered such profound abuse that she murdered her vile, drug kingpin father. Juno loved his wife and did his best to help her survive her guilt, her drug habit, and her desire to end her life on the dead-end planet of Lagarto. When she died, however, Juno's life went downhill. And then his first partner, the corrupt chief of the Koba Office of Police, was murdered....
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Lt. Terence McDonagh is a rogue detective who is as devoted to his job as he is to scoring drugs while playing fast and loose with the law. He wields his badge as often as he wields his gun in order to get his way. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, he becomes a high-functioning addict who is a deeply intuitive, fearless detective reigning over the beautiful ruins of New Orleans with authority and abandon. Complicating his tumultuous life is the...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When Bill Bratton became a Boston street cop after returning from serving in Vietnam, he was dismayed by the corrupt old guard , and it is fair to say the old guard was dismayed by him too. But his success fighting crime could not be denied. Propelled by extraordinary results, Bratton had a dazzling rise, and ultimately a dazzling career, becoming the most famous police commissioner of modern times. The Profession is the story of that career in full....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Presumed Guilty reveals how the Supreme Court allows the perpetuation of racist policing by presuming that suspects, especially people of color, are guilty. Presumed Guilty, like the best-selling The Color of Law, is a "smoking gun" of civil rights research, a troubling history that reveals how the Supreme Court enabled racist policing and sanctioned law enforcement excesses. The fact that police are nine times more likely to kill Black men than...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A true-crime story centering on a South Texas lawman who became a law unto himself . . . Of interest to students of Texas history as well as aspiring law enforcement officers, who should read it as an example of how not to conduct themselves." Kirkus ReviewsBeeville, Texas, was the most American of small townsthe place that GIs had fantasized about while fighting through the ruins of Europe, a place of good schools, clean streets, and churches. Old...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"From the highest-ranking whistleblower in the history of the NYPD, a political memoir that exposes the brokenness of policing from both outside and inside the system During the workday, Edwin Raymond is on the beat as a ranked lieutenant in the New YorkPolice Department. When the uniform comes off, he takes on a very different role: the lead plaintiff in the largest-ever civil rights lawsuit against the very police force he serves. This is the true...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Using the LAPD as the book's spine and through-line, the author illuminates urban policing at a crossroads during the tumultuous violence-plagued years of the early 1990s. Years when the beating of Rodney King and the LAPD's brutality sparked the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, and police departments were caught between an often brutal, corrupt and racist past, and the demands of a rapidly changing urban population and environment. From LA he moves on to...
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and persistence of structural inequality such as mass incarceration and Black unemployment. In this context, she argues that this new struggle against police violence holds the potential to reignite a broader push for Black liberation"--Front flap.
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