Author: Alexandria Police Association
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738543406
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
After constables and night watchmen had protected Alexandria, Virginia, for nearly 100 years, the Alexandria Police Department was officially organized on July 15, 1870. When the city authorized a formal police department, the board of police elected a captain, a lieutenant, and 19 patrolmen. All officers were issued star-shaped tin badges, but they had to supply their own uniforms and guns. This first published history of the Alexandria Police Department follows the growth of the force from the days of foot patrols, when drunks and thieves menaced the seaport town, to 20th-century law enforcement pioneers who once used watches to catch speeders and trained a canine to respond to radio commands. Images recall Alexandria's downtown before it became Old Town and capture the city's expansion to Del Ray and the West End. The officers themselves are highlighted as they caught criminals, investigated traffic accidents, reached out to children in the community, and, in some cases, sacrificed their own lives while protecting the people of Alexandria.
Alexandria Police Department
Author: Alexandria Police Association
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738543406
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
After constables and night watchmen had protected Alexandria, Virginia, for nearly 100 years, the Alexandria Police Department was officially organized on July 15, 1870. When the city authorized a formal police department, the board of police elected a captain, a lieutenant, and 19 patrolmen. All officers were issued star-shaped tin badges, but they had to supply their own uniforms and guns. This first published history of the Alexandria Police Department follows the growth of the force from the days of foot patrols, when drunks and thieves menaced the seaport town, to 20th-century law enforcement pioneers who once used watches to catch speeders and trained a canine to respond to radio commands. Images recall Alexandria's downtown before it became Old Town and capture the city's expansion to Del Ray and the West End. The officers themselves are highlighted as they caught criminals, investigated traffic accidents, reached out to children in the community, and, in some cases, sacrificed their own lives while protecting the people of Alexandria.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738543406
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
After constables and night watchmen had protected Alexandria, Virginia, for nearly 100 years, the Alexandria Police Department was officially organized on July 15, 1870. When the city authorized a formal police department, the board of police elected a captain, a lieutenant, and 19 patrolmen. All officers were issued star-shaped tin badges, but they had to supply their own uniforms and guns. This first published history of the Alexandria Police Department follows the growth of the force from the days of foot patrols, when drunks and thieves menaced the seaport town, to 20th-century law enforcement pioneers who once used watches to catch speeders and trained a canine to respond to radio commands. Images recall Alexandria's downtown before it became Old Town and capture the city's expansion to Del Ray and the West End. The officers themselves are highlighted as they caught criminals, investigated traffic accidents, reached out to children in the community, and, in some cases, sacrificed their own lives while protecting the people of Alexandria.
The NYPD Tapes
Author: Graham A. Rayman
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1137381272
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
From the Pulitzer Prize–nominated reporter, an “account of a modern-day Serpico’s battle with an all-powerful police department . . . somber and inspiring” (Publishers Weekly). In May 2010, NYPD officer Adrian Schoolcraft made national headlines when he released a series of secretly recorded audio tapes exposing corruption and abuse at the highest levels of the police department. But, according to a lawsuit filed by Schoolcraft against the City of New York, instead of admitting mistakes and pledging reform Schoolcraft’s superiors forced him into a mental hospital in an effort to discredit the evidence. In The NYPD Tapes, the reporter who first broke the Schoolcraft story brings his ongoing saga up to date, revealing the rampant abuses that continue in the NYPD today, including warrantless surveillance and systemic harassment. Through this lens, he tells the broader tale of how American law enforcement has for the past thirty years been distorted by a ruthless quest for numbers, in the form of CompStat, the vaunted data-driven accountability system first championed by New York police chief William Bratton and since implemented in police departments across the country. Forced to produce certain crime stats each quarter or face discipline, cops in New York and everywhere else fudged the numbers, robbing actual crime victims of justice and sweeping countless innocents into the police net. Rayman paints a terrifying picture of a system gone wild, and the pitiless fate of the whistleblower who tried to stop it. “A tale of crime prevention turned upside down in the Bloomberg era. Rayman has invented a new genre: the police misprocedural.” —Tom Robbins, New York Times–bestselling author
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1137381272
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
From the Pulitzer Prize–nominated reporter, an “account of a modern-day Serpico’s battle with an all-powerful police department . . . somber and inspiring” (Publishers Weekly). In May 2010, NYPD officer Adrian Schoolcraft made national headlines when he released a series of secretly recorded audio tapes exposing corruption and abuse at the highest levels of the police department. But, according to a lawsuit filed by Schoolcraft against the City of New York, instead of admitting mistakes and pledging reform Schoolcraft’s superiors forced him into a mental hospital in an effort to discredit the evidence. In The NYPD Tapes, the reporter who first broke the Schoolcraft story brings his ongoing saga up to date, revealing the rampant abuses that continue in the NYPD today, including warrantless surveillance and systemic harassment. Through this lens, he tells the broader tale of how American law enforcement has for the past thirty years been distorted by a ruthless quest for numbers, in the form of CompStat, the vaunted data-driven accountability system first championed by New York police chief William Bratton and since implemented in police departments across the country. Forced to produce certain crime stats each quarter or face discipline, cops in New York and everywhere else fudged the numbers, robbing actual crime victims of justice and sweeping countless innocents into the police net. Rayman paints a terrifying picture of a system gone wild, and the pitiless fate of the whistleblower who tried to stop it. “A tale of crime prevention turned upside down in the Bloomberg era. Rayman has invented a new genre: the police misprocedural.” —Tom Robbins, New York Times–bestselling author
The Alexandria Link
Author: Steve Berry
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1848943083
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
From the New York Times bestselling author, an ambitious and explosive international thriller with an unexpected historical twist A hidden treasure. A forgotten truth. Cotton Malone is in trouble. His son has been kidnapped and his bookshop in Copenhagen attacked, all because he is the only man alive who knows the whereabouts of the Alexandria link - the means of locating the most important cache of ancient knowledge ever assembled: the legendary Library of Alexandria, which vanished without trace fifteen hundred years ago. Now, Malone is forced to join the search for a forgotten truth hidden within that vast literary treasure - a truth that, if revealed, will have grave consequences, not only for Malone, but for the balance of world power . . .
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1848943083
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
From the New York Times bestselling author, an ambitious and explosive international thriller with an unexpected historical twist A hidden treasure. A forgotten truth. Cotton Malone is in trouble. His son has been kidnapped and his bookshop in Copenhagen attacked, all because he is the only man alive who knows the whereabouts of the Alexandria link - the means of locating the most important cache of ancient knowledge ever assembled: the legendary Library of Alexandria, which vanished without trace fifteen hundred years ago. Now, Malone is forced to join the search for a forgotten truth hidden within that vast literary treasure - a truth that, if revealed, will have grave consequences, not only for Malone, but for the balance of world power . . .
Annual Report
Author: High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Program (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drug control
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Drug control
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Surveillance Technology
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights
Publisher:
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Category : Data processing
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Data processing
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
Author:
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Category : Criminal investigation
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal investigation
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Emergency Preparedness in the Washington Metropolitan Area
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee on Government Operations and Metropolitan Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
Book Description
Court Management Study
Author: United States. Judicial Council of the District of Columbia Circuit. Committee on the Administration of Justice
Publisher:
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Category : Courts
Languages : en
Pages : 1402
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Courts
Languages : en
Pages : 1402
Book Description
Crime in the District of Columbia
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia
Publisher:
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1400
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1400
Book Description