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Book Boca Undercover

    Book Details:
  • Author : Miriam Auerbach
  • Publisher : Bell Bridge Books
  • Release : 2014-10-30
  • ISBN : 1611945658
  • Pages : 174 pages

Download or read book Boca Undercover written by Miriam Auerbach and published by Bell Bridge Books. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patients at a posh Boca Raton rehab center are ending up stiffer than a Boca babe's smile. Tough PI Harriet Horowitz, once a bedazzled babe herself, signs in at The Oasis at the request of a frightened friend. As a pattern emerges in the murders, it's clear the killer is targeting patients with an unusual addiction. How did they end up with the same drug problem at the same time and in the same rehab together? Harriet's sleuthing leads her down a path of secrets and danger, and what she learns could lead her undercover assignment to a dead end. Miriam Auerbach is the author of a satirical mystery series set in Boca Raton, Florida and featuring Harley-riding, wisecracking female private eye Harriet Horowitz. Her debut novel, Dirty Harriet, won the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for Best First Series Romance. Miriam can only assume that this is because the heroine kills her husband on page one. In a parallel universe, Miriam is known as Miriam Potocky, professor of social work at Florida International University in Miami. She lives in South Florida with her husband and their multicultural canines, a Welsh Corgi and a Brussels Griffon. Visit Miriam at Miriamauerbach.com.

Book Undercover

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dale L. June
  • Publisher : CRC Press
  • Release : 2018-01-12
  • ISBN : 1351094335
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Undercover written by Dale L. June and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instructive and entertaining book for those public and private investigators who are potential undercover agents, this book approaches the topic from three angles: how to handle informants, how to investigate suspects, and how to be an undercover agent. Undercover places emphasis on the law enforcement agent but does not overlook the private investigator who may be assigned to work in an undercover role in business or industry. The first edition of this book quickly became the classic text for a whole generation of law enforcement personnel, and the name Carmine Motto, now retired from the secret service, is known throughout the country. Both authors contribute years of personal experience and use actual case anecdotes to focus attention on the triangle of interpersonal relationships among the informant, the suspect and the investigative agent. The motivations of the informant are detailed and analyzed to determine his reasoning and willingness to assist the investigator; the suspect is examined relative to his background, associates and capabilities; and, the investigative agent is instructed in protecting the identities of and handling of informants while gaining the confidence of the suspect. This edition of Undercover modernizes the writing, replaces the photographs, and updates the cases to provide insight into the highly intriguing and fascinating human intelligence and evidence gathering method that has captured the public's attention through movies, television and newspapers.

Book Under Cover of Daylight

    Book Details:
  • Author : James W. Hall
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780393321258
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Under Cover of Daylight written by James W. Hall and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years after his real parents are killed by a drunken driver and Thorn executes his own justice in the form of murder, his foster-mother is found brutally killed on her charter fishing boat, and Thorn, now in his late 30s, edges in among the suspects.

Book Dirty Harriet

    Book Details:
  • Author : Miriam Auerbach
  • Publisher : Bell Bridge Books
  • Release : 2013-03-28
  • ISBN : 1611943027
  • Pages : 169 pages

Download or read book Dirty Harriet written by Miriam Auerbach and published by Bell Bridge Books. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book One of the Dirty Harriet Mysteries "A terrific investigative tale . . . using dark humor and starring a fabulous [character] who deserves future tales."--Harriet Klausner, an Amazon.com top reviewer Goodbye mansion, hello Hog. This former Boca Babe is now a Biker Babe with a rap sheet and a license to track down bad guys and solve crimes. Go ahead. Make her day. Harriet "Dirty Harriet" Horowitz had it all. Money. Plastic Surgery. Servants. Then her husband raised his fist one time too many, and she shot and killed him. Now, she lives in the South Florida swamps, rides a Harley, and owns a private eye agency. Her best friend--the only friend who makes sense anymore--is an alligator named Lana. Then the Contessa von Phul, a woman from Harriet's society days, hires Harriet to investigate the death of a Mayan immigrant worker. With her assistant Lupe--an eccentric civil servant--and a .44 Magnum, Dirty Harriet hits the mean streets of Boca Raton to dig for clues. What won't she do to uncover the truth? Her search for answers forces her to return to her old world of Boca Babes and McMansions. When she discovers scandal after scandal, will she be able to escape Boca with her life--yet again? Dirty Harriet, Miriam Auerbach's debut mystery novel, won a Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award. Miriam can only assume that this is because the heroine kills her husband on page one. In a parallel universe, Miriam is known as Miriam Potocky, professor of social work at Florida International University in Miami. She lives in South Florida with her husband and their multicultural canines, a Welsh Corgi and a Brussels Griffon. Visit Miriam at miriamauerbach.com.

Book Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement written by Larry E Sullivan and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 1 and 2 cover U.S. law enforcement. Vol. 3 contains articles on individual foreign nations, together with topical articles on international law enforcement.

Book Speaking Truth to Power

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  • Author : Dean A. Dabney
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2016-08-02
  • ISBN : 0520290461
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Speaking Truth to Power written by Dean A. Dabney and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domestic drug enforcement takes many forms, from the rural patrol officer who happens upon a small-scale mobile Òshake and bakeÓ methamphetamine lab during a routine traffic stop, to the city narcotics detective who initiates a low-level buy-bust operation that nets a few hits of crack cocaine on the street corner, to the local, state, and federal agents working in multiagency task forces that coordinate a sting operation that nets thousands of kilos of near-pure cocaine being transported by tractor-trailer. Regardless of the form, there is a high probability that these authorities have exploited access to known offenders and exerted pressure on those individuals to gather inside information on illicit drug sales. These confidential informants provide intelligence on the inner workings of drug operations in exchange for leniency or remuneration, providing a relatively cheap source of intelligence that fuels much of the ongoing war on drugs. In other instances, law enforcement authorities will reach out to members of the criminal underworld who are willing to provide valuable intelligence in exchange for money.ÊDespite the central role of informants in contemporary police operations, little is known about the shadowy relationships among law enforcement, snitches, and offenders. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the narcotics, homicide, and street-level vice operations in two major metropolitan police departments,ÊSpeaking Truth to PowerÊtakes readers to the front lines of the war on drugs to unravel this complex web of information exchange.

Book Practical Drug Enforcement

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael D. Lyman
  • Publisher : CRC Press
  • Release : 2006-11-16
  • ISBN : 1420009834
  • Pages : 366 pages

Download or read book Practical Drug Enforcement written by Michael D. Lyman and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-11-16 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criminal investigation is a dynamic endeavor impacted by changes in human nature, statutory and constitutional laws, and methods of operation. New challenges are constantly posed for the investigator and the investigation of drug offenses is no exception. It takes advanced skills to keep pace with the criminal mind. Unfortunately, the skills acquir

Book Introduction to Policing Research

Download or read book Introduction to Policing Research written by Denise Martin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a first-hand insight into the work of policing scholars and the research that they undertake. Bringing together a range of leading scholars and drawing on a range of pressing topics, it introduces the diverse nature of policing research, and the ethical and practical challenges faced by policing researchers. Each chapter brings clarity to the concept of empirical research within policing, introduces readers to the theoretical explanations and assumptions that underpin the rational of research design in policing, as well as considering the limitations of research. Topics include: • research methods in police research; • police professionalisation; • police and diversity; • police leadership; • undercover policing; • police and vulnerability; • activist research; • social media and policing. This revised and expanded new edition includes more focus on the role of research in policing, police and academic partnerships and practitioners as researchers, as well as a brand new section offering international perspectives on policing research. Brimming with practical examples, case studies, key learning points and practical advice, this book is essential reading for Professional Policing students, as well as early-career researchers and those engaged with criminological research methods.

Book Filmfacts

Download or read book Filmfacts written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book All Other Perils

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alex Clifford
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2009-03-01
  • ISBN : 0578007053
  • Pages : 291 pages

Download or read book All Other Perils written by Alex Clifford and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The S.S. Balboa Victory has been in San Pedro for less than two weeks and already she has claimed another seaman's life. The World War Two era freighter, rumored to be haunted by dead seamen, has been in mothballs since the CIA last used her for covert operations in the Vietnam War. When Chief Engineer James Wierman is found murdered in one of the ship's cargo holds, Coast Guard Commander Jared Stanton and homicide detective Rachel Terazzo join forces on the case. The duo hits the docks of San Pedro to track down Wierman's killer and it's not long before the clues lead to a government cover-up that is decades old. Stanton learns about a lost gold shipment intended to fund the mercenary war in Vietnam. Stanton and Terazzo soon realize their lives are at stake because they know too much and it's a race against time and unseen adversaries to get to the truth before they become the ship's next victims.

Book Snitching

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alexandra Natapoff
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2009-11-01
  • ISBN : 0814758584
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Snitching written by Alexandra Natapoff and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2010 Honorable Mention, Silver Gavel Award, American Bar Association Uncovers the powerful and problematic practice of snitching to reveal disturbing truths about how American justice works Albert Burrell spent thirteen years on death row for a murder he did not commit. Atlanta police killed 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston during a misguided raid on her home. After being released by Chicago prosecutors, Darryl Moore—drug dealer, hit man, and rapist—returned home to rape an eleven-year-old girl. Such tragedies are consequences of snitching—police and prosecutors offering deals to criminal offenders in exchange for information. Although it is nearly invisible to the public, criminal snitching has invaded the American legal system in risky and sometimes shocking ways. Snitching is the first comprehensive analysis of this powerful and problematic practice, in which informant deals generate unreliable evidence, allow criminals to escape punishment, endanger the innocent, compromise the integrity of police work, and exacerbate tension between police and poor urban residents. Driven by dozens of real-life stories and debacles, the book exposes the social destruction that snitching can cause in high-crime African American neighborhoods, and how using criminal informants renders our entire penal process more secretive and less fair. Natapoff also uncovers the far-reaching legal, political, and cultural significance of snitching: from the war on drugs to hip hop music, from the FBI’s mishandling of its murderous mafia informants to the new surge in white collar and terrorism informing. She explains how existing law functions and proposes new reforms. By delving into the secretive world of criminal informants, Snitching reveals deep and often disturbing truths about the way American justice really works.

Book Drug Enforcement

Download or read book Drug Enforcement written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Welcome to Fear City

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  • Author : Nathan Holmes
  • Publisher : SUNY Press
  • Release : 2018-09-26
  • ISBN : 1438471211
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book Welcome to Fear City written by Nathan Holmes and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2018-09-26 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced understandings of urban crisis. The early 1970s were a moment of transformation for both the American city and its cinema. As intensified suburbanization, racial division, deindustrialization, and decaying infrastructure cast the future of the city in doubt, detective films, blaxploitation, police procedurals, and heist films confronted spectators with contemporary scenes from urban streets. Welcome to Fear City argues that the location-shot crime films of the 1970s were part of a larger cultural ambivalence felt toward urban life, evident in popular magazines, architectural discourse, urban sociology, and visual culture. Yet they also helped to reinvigorate the city as a site of variegated experience and a positively disordered public life—in stark contrast to the socially homogenous and spatially ordered suburbs. Discussing the design of parking garages and street lighting, the dynamics of mugging, panoramas of ruin, and the optics of undercover police operations in such films as Klute, The French Connection, Detroit 9000, Death Wish, and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Nathan Holmes demonstrates that crime genres did not simply mirror urban settings and social realities, but actively produced and circulated new ideas about the shifting surfaces of public culture. “Rejecting the easy abstractions and postmodern playfulness of noir and neo-noir criticism, Holmes places 1970s crime films, as he says, ‘in relation to the urban context that was their location, setting, and subject.’ He does this brilliantly, convincingly, and uniquely.” — David Desser, former editor, Cinema Journal

Book Betrayal

Download or read book Betrayal written by Robert Fitzpatrick and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces how the author, a top FBI agent, confronted internal corruption and political adversaries in his pursuit of feared gang lord Whitey Bulger.

Book Dreamseller

Download or read book Dreamseller written by Brandon Novak and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former skateboarder prodigy Novak relates his harrowing tale of drug abuse, addiction, and recovery, in this riveting memoir that details his slide from a dream life to a nightmare existence.

Book Securities Regulation   Law Report

Download or read book Securities Regulation Law Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cuba Undercover

    Book Details:
  • Author : Linda Bond
  • Publisher : Entangled Select
  • Release : 2015-07-05
  • ISBN : 9781943336647
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book Cuba Undercover written by Linda Bond and published by Entangled Select. This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His revenge will change her life forever... Cuban-American TV reporter Rebecca Menendez's success comes from playing by the rules. When she's kidnapped by a fierce and intensely handsome man who needs her help, however, all of those rules seem pointless. Nothing could have prepared her for being taken hostage...or the irresistible reward if she complies: information about her long-thought dead father. Antonio Vega has spent almost every day of his adult life dreaming of revenging his father's death. With his sister's life and freedom in jeopardy, Antonio isn't taking any chances. But once Rebecca and Antonio are in Cuba, they're immersed in a world of corruption, deceit, and betrayal. It's a deadly game...and there are no rules.