Author: Dean Scoville
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147663078X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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During his 25 years with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Dean Scoville advanced from nervous recruit to silver-tongued spokesperson to seasoned patrol sergeant. His candid memoir chronicles the personal experiences of police work--the tedium of guarding jail inmates, the consternation of shoot/don't-shoot scenarios, the trauma of being wounded in the line of duty--and offers an insider's view of iconic moments in law enforcement, including the capture of "Night Stalker" Richard Ramirez and the 1992 L.A. Riots. Along the way he examines a profession increasingly beleaguered by inimical agendas, administrative cowardice and fiscal restraints.
Author: Adam Maxwell
Publisher: The Lost Book Emporium
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Three friends. A mysterious room. A missing treasure. Nina, Ivy and Oswald cannot resist the pull of the next adventure that they know awaits them in the hidden room in The Lost Bookshop. Stepping through the door once more, they are surprised to find themselves in the Wild West, in a town that is facing certain destruction. Knowing they must help, and with the aid of a little native American girl named Wachiwi, the group set off in search of a fabled treasure – the only thing that can save the town before it’s too late. In a race against the clock the trio embark on their next adventure, not knowing if they will ever find their way home. The Search for the Sheriffs Star is the second book in the Lost Bookshop series of stand-alone stories that feature a young, curious and adventure seeking cast. Whether this is their first visit, or their second, you children will love their time in the Lost Bookshop. Pick up The Search for the Sheriffs Star today and feed their imagination.
Author: Kevin M. Gilmartin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780971725416
Category : Law enforcement
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This book is designed to help law enforcement professionals overcome the internal assaults they experience both personally and organizationally over the course of their careers. These assaults can transform idealistic and committed officers into angry, cynical individuals, leading to significant problems in both their personal and professional lives.
Author: Anne Marie Duquette
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1459263758
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
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HOME ON THE RANCH The Silver Dollar Ranch, near Tombstone, Arizona Virgil Bodine. Oldest of the Bodine brothers. One-time sheriff of Tombstone and former bodyguard to the stars. He's come home from California, with his reluctant ten-year-old son in tow. Desiree Hartlan is a big-city D.A. who talked herself out of a job—and is looking for a new one. The position of sheriff—an elected position—is open. Desiree decides to run. So does Virgil, figuring he'll win in a landslide. Next thing he knows, he's calling her sheriff. And boss. And…wife?
Author: Alfred L. Brophy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190289694
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot was the country's bloodiest civil disturbance of the century. Thirty city blocks were burned to the ground, perhaps 150 died, and the prosperous black community of Greenwood, Oklahoma, was turned to rubble. Brophy draws on his own extensive research into contemporary accounts and court documents to chronicle this devastating riot, showing how and why the rule of law quickly eroded. Brophy shines his lights on mob violence and racism run amok, both on the night of the riot and the following morning. Equally important, he shows how the city government and police not only permitted looting, shootings, and the burning of Greenwood, but actively participated in it by deputizing white citizens haphazardly, giving out guns and badges, or sending men to arm themselves. Likewise, the National Guard acted unconstitutionally, arresting every black resident they found, leaving property vulnerable to the white mob. Brophy's stark narrative concludes with a discussion of reparations for victims of the riot through lawsuits and legislative action. That case has implications for other reparations movements, including reparations for slavery. "Recovers a largely forgotten history of black activism in one of the grimmest periods of race relations.... Linking history with advocacy, Brophy also offers a reasoned defense of reparations for the riot's victims."--Washington Post Book World
Author: Jessica Pishko
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593471318
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 481
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Shortlisted for Columbia Journalism School’s J. Anthony Lukas Prize A Publishers Lunch NonFiction Buzz Book| Named Most Anticipated by Los Angeles Times A leading authority on sheriffs investigates the impunity with which they police their communities, alongside the troubling role they play in American life, law enforcement, and, increasingly, national politics. The figure of the American sheriff has loomed large in popular imagination, though given the outsize jurisdiction sheriffs have over people’s lives, the office of sheriffs remains a gravely under-examined institution. Locally elected, largely unaccountable, and difficult to remove, the country’s over three thousand sheriffs, mostly white men, wield immense power—making arrests, running county jails, enforcing evictions and immigration laws—with a quarter of all U.S. law enforcement officers reporting to them. In recent years there’s been a revival of “constitutional sheriffs,” who assert that their authority supersedes that of legislatures, courts, and even the president. They’ve protested federal mask and vaccine mandates and gun regulations, railed against police reforms, and, ultimately, declared themselves election police, with many endorsing the “Big Lie” of a stolen presidential election. They are embraced by far-right militia groups, white nationalists, the Claremont Institute, and former president Donald Trump, who sees them as allies in mass deportation and border policing. How did a group of law enforcement officers decide that they were “above the law?” What are the stakes for local and national politics, and for America as a multi-racial democracy? Blending investigative reporting, historical research, and political analysis, author Jessica Pishko takes us to the roots of why sheriffs have become a flashpoint in the current politics of toxic masculinity, guns, white supremacy, and rural resentment, and uncovers how sheriffs have effectively evaded accountability since the nation’s founding. A must-read for fans of Michelle Alexander, Gilbert King, Elizabeth Hinton, and Kathleen Belew.
Author: Steve Pomper
Publisher: Bookbaby
ISBN: 9781098355258
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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New Investigative Book Exposes Former President's Foundation is at the Center of the Anti-Police Firestorm The wave of riots and anti-police actions that began in the Spring of 2020, and continue to this day, have been generally reported by the mainstream media as an entirely spontaneous grass roots response to the death in police custody of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The mainstream media got it wrong. National Police Association writer and retired Seattle police officer Steve Pomper's new book, The Obama Gang, provides for the first time an explanation that what happened was far from spontaneous. This investigation into what is really behind the new vilification of law enforcement exposes the groundwork for the anti-police firestorm was carefully created, organized and led by former president Barack Obama's Foundation, and executed by the Foundation's web of allies. The anti-police machine which has been constructed to operate across the country 24/7. The seemingly independent anti-police factions are in actuality part of a larger "family" or "gang" of wealthy and radical individuals and organizations. With former President Barack H. Obama's Foundation at the top, they operate similar to an organized crime family--on the periphery of civil society. From the bottom up, the organizational chart begins with the "soldiers" on the streets, who caused such visible destruction during 2020, and climbs the crowded pyramid to the top. This "family", or gang of individuals and organizations are now working together like never before to collapse policing in America as we know it--to collapse America as we know it.
Author: California
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 2054
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Author: California
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1090
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Author: California
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
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