Rise of the Warrior Cop

Rise of the Warrior Cop
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Publisher : PublicAffairs
Total Pages : 497
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ISBN-10 : 9781541700284
ISBN-13 : 1541700287
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis Rise of the Warrior Cop by : Radley Balko

This groundbreaking history of how American police forces have been militarized is now revised and updated. Newly added material brings the story through 2020, including analysis of the Ferguson protests, the Obama and Trump administrations, and the George Floyd protests. The last days of colonialism taught America’s revolutionaries that soldiers in the streets bring conflict and tyranny. As a result, our country has generally worked to keep the military out of law enforcement. But over the last two centuries, America’s cops have increasingly come to resemble ground troops. The consequences have been dire: the home is no longer a place of sanctuary, the Fourth Amendment has been gutted, and police today have been conditioned to see the citizens they serve as enemies. In Rise of the Warrior Cop, Balko shows how politicians’ ill-considered policies and relentless declarations of war against vague enemies like crime, drugs, and terror have blurred the distinction between cop and soldier. His fascinating, frightening narrative that spans from America’s earliest days through today shows how a creeping battlefield mentality has isolated and alienated American police officers and put them on a collision course with the values of a free society.

I Love a Cop, Third Edition

I Love a Cop, Third Edition
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Publisher : Guilford Publications
Total Pages : 369
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ISBN-10 : 9781462533855
ISBN-13 : 146253385X
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis I Love a Cop, Third Edition by : Ellen Kirschman

Police officers today face unprecedented challenges--anti-police sentiment, increased danger, massive public scrutiny, and the ever-present threat of terrorism. Now thoroughly updated, this trusted resource has already helped over 125,000 police families manage the stress of the job and create a supportive home environment where everyone can thrive. The third edition includes new stories from police families, new chapters on relationships and living through troubled times, and fully updated resources. Discussions of trauma and resilience, domestic abuse, and addictions have been expanded with the latest information and practical advice. Whether they read the book cover to cover or refer to it when problems arise, families will find no-nonsense guidance they can depend on. Mental health professionals, see also Counseling Cops: What Clinicians Need to Know, by Ellen Kirschman, Mark Kamena, and Joel Fay.

Once a Cop

Once a Cop
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 320
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781501110498
ISBN-13 : 1501110497
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Once a Cop by : Corey Pegues

A "former cop sets the record straight in this ... memoir about his youth selling crack in the '80s with one of NYC's toughest gangs and later rise through the ranks of the NYPD to become a community leader"--

Cop

Cop
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Publisher : Contemporary Books
Total Pages : 356
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ISBN-10 : PSU:000044682040
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Cop by : Michael Middleton

In this brutally honest portrait, Sergeant Michael Middleton--a now-retired veteran of the LAPD--tells the gripping tale of his two decades on some of the America's meanest streets.

The Cop Shop

The Cop Shop
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Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Total Pages : 282
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015029084426
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cop Shop by : Robert Blau

Blau writes from his three years reporting for the Chicago Tribune in the Cop Shop, Chicago's police headquarters. Gritty and grim, well- told. Good reading about evil. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Mafia Cop

Mafia Cop
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 9781416523994
ISBN-13 : 1416523995
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Mafia Cop by : Lou Eppolito

He was one of the most decorated cops in the history of NYPD. From his "wiseguy" relatives, he learned the meaning of honor and loyalty. From his fellow cops, he learned the meaning of betrayal. MAFIA COP His father, Ralph "Fat the Gangster" Eppolito, was stone-cold Mafia hit-man. Lou Eppolito, however, chose to live by different code; he chose the uniform of NYPD. And he was one of the best -- a good, tough, honest cop down the line. Butu even his sterling record, his headline-making heroism, couldn't protect him when the police brass decided to take him down. Although completely exonerated of charges that he had passed secrets to the mob, Lou didn't stand a chance. They had taken something from him they couldn't give back: his dignity and his pride. Now, here's the powerful story, told in Lou Eppolito's own words, of the bloody Mafia hit that claimed his uncle and cousin...of his middle-of-the-night meeting with "Boss of Bosses" Paul Castellano...of one good cop who survived eight shootouts and saved hundreds of victims, who was persecuted, prosecuted, and ultimately betrayed by his own department. Full of hard drama and gritty truth, Mafia Cop gives a vivid, inside look at life in the Family, on the force, and on the mean streets of New York.

Cop in the Hood

Cop in the Hood
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9781400832262
ISBN-13 : 1400832268
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis Cop in the Hood by : Peter Moskos

When Harvard-trained sociologist Peter Moskos left the classroom to become a cop in Baltimore's Eastern District, he was thrust deep into police culture and the ways of the street--the nerve-rattling patrols, the thriving drug corners, and a world of poverty and violence that outsiders never see. In Cop in the Hood, Moskos reveals the truths he learned on the midnight shift. Through Moskos's eyes, we see police academy graduates unprepared for the realities of the street, success measured by number of arrests, and the ultimate failure of the war on drugs. In addition to telling an explosive insider's story of what it is really like to be a police officer, he makes a passionate argument for drug legalization as the only realistic way to end drug violence--and let cops once again protect and serve. In a new afterword, Moskos describes the many benefits of foot patrol--or, as he calls it, "policing green."

Notorious C.O.P.

Notorious C.O.P.
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Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Total Pages : 344
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ISBN-10 : 9781429907781
ISBN-13 : 1429907789
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Notorious C.O.P. by : Derrick Parker

Throughout his career, Derrick Parker worked on some of the biggest criminal cases in rap history, from the shooting at Club New York, where Derrick personally escorted Jennifer Lopez to police headquarters, to the first shooting of Tupac Shakur. Always straddling the fence between "po-po" and NYPD outsider, Derrick threatened police tradition to try to get the cases solved. He was the first detective to interview an informant offering a detailed account of Biggie Smalls's murder. He protected one of the only surviving eyewitnesses to the Jam Master Jay murder and knows the identity of the killers as well as the motivation behind the shooting. Notorious C.O.P. reveals hip-hop crimes that never made the paper—like the robbing of Foxy Brown and the first Hot 97 shooting—and answers some lingering questions about murders that have remained unsolved. The book that both the NYPD and the hip-hop community don't want you to read, Notorious C.O.P. is the first insider look at the real links between crime and hip-hop and the inefficiencies that have left some of the most widely publicized murders in entertainment history unsolved.

Serpico

Serpico
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 418
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ISBN-10 : 9780060738181
ISBN-13 : 0060738189
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Serpico by : Peter Maas

The 1960s was a time of social and generational upheaval felt with particular intensity in the melting pot of New York City. A culture of corruption pervaded the New York Police Department, where payoffs, protection, and shakedowns of gambling rackets and drug dealers were common practice. The so-called blue code of silence protected the minority of crooked cops from the sanction of the majority. Into this maelstrom came a working class, Brooklyn-born, Italian cop with long hair, a beard, and a taste for opera and ballet. Frank Serpico was a man who couldn't be silenced -- or bought -- and he refused to go along with the system. He had sworn an oath to uphold the law, even if the perpetrators happened to be other cops. For this unwavering commitment to justice, Serpico nearly paid with his life.

One Tough Cop

One Tough Cop
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 290
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780671028411
ISBN-13 : 0671028413
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis One Tough Cop by : Bo Dietl

"This is the true story of the maverick cop who made the busts, the headlines, and the controversies. Now Bo Dietl tells what it's really like inside the raw and deadly world of a big-city-cop--and how one man became a legend from the station house to the streets"--Back cover.