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Book Cops on Campus and Crime in the Streets

Download or read book Cops on Campus and Crime in the Streets written by Erle Stanley Gardner and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creator of the legal mystery series character, Perry Mason, speaks about police innocence and citizen brutality. A strong law and order advocate, Gardner clarifies his position and emphasizes his concerns regarding the topic.

Book Campus Security

Download or read book Campus Security written by George F. Rengert and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book should be required reading for all campus law enforcement and security professionals. Describes the factors related to the level of crime on college campuses. Topics covered include development of campus security systems, preventative measures, victimization surveys, perception of crime on campus and high definition geographic information systems.

Book The End of Policing

Download or read book The End of Policing written by Alex S. Vitale and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The massive uprising following the police killing of George Floyd in the summer of 2020--by some estimates the largest protests in US history--thrust the argument to defund the police to the forefront of international politics. It also made The End of Policing a bestseller and Alex Vitale, its author, a leading figure in the urgent public discussion over police and racial justice. As the writer Rachel Kushner put it in an article called "Things I Can't Live Without", this book explains that "unfortunately, no increased diversity on police forces, nor body cameras, nor better training, has made any seeming difference" in reducing police killings and abuse. "We need to restructure our society and put resources into communities themselves, an argument Alex Vitale makes very persuasively." The problem, Vitale demonstrates, is policing itself-the dramatic expansion of the police role over the last forty years. Drawing on first-hand research from across the globe, The End of Policing describes how the implementation of alternatives to policing, like drug legalization, regulation, and harm reduction instead of the policing of drugs, has led to reductions in crime, spending, and injustice. This edition includes a new introduction that takes stock of the renewed movement to challenge police impunity and shows how we move forward, evaluating protest, policy, and the political situation.

Book College Cops Gone Bad

Download or read book College Cops Gone Bad written by J. Frederick Wehrmann and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College Cops Gone Bad By: J. Frederick Wehrmann College Cops Gone Bad is about the illegal and criminal behavior the author witnessed from his fellow police officers, both academy class #36, but also from older police officers. These true stories will shock you and surprise you by some of the lurid and extreme criminal behavior of trusted fellow officers. Most stories were hushed-up and never appeared in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The main crime committed made national headlines and cast deep doubts about which officers could be trusted to protect the citizens from harm’s way.

Book Police in the Hallways

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathleen Nolan
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2011-06-30
  • ISBN : 1452933081
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Police in the Hallways written by Kathleen Nolan and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exposing the deeply harmful impact of street-style policing on urban high school students

Book Policing the Media

Download or read book Policing the Media written by David D. Perlmutter and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2000-02-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon interviews, personal observations, and the author's black-and-white photographs of cops and the "clients, " Perlmutter describes the lives and philosophies of street patrol officers. He finds that cops hold ambiguous attitudes toward their televisual comrades, for much of TV copland is fantastic and preposterous. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Book Cop in the Hood

Download or read book Cop in the Hood written by Peter Moskos and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-22 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cop in the Hood is an explosive insider's story of what it is really like to be a police officer on the front lines of the war on drugs. Harvard-trained sociologist Peter Moskos became a cop in Baltimore’s roughest neighborhood--the Eastern District, also the location for the first season of the critically acclaimed HBO drama The Wire--where he experienced real-life poverty and violent crime firsthand. This revised and corrected edition of Cop in the Hood provides an unforgettable window into the world that outsiders never see--the thriving drug corners, the nerve-rattling patrols, and the heartbreaking failure of 911. Moskos reveals the truth about the drug war and why it is engineered to fail--a truth he learned on the midnight shift. He describes police academy graduates fully unprepared for the realities of the street. He tells of a criminal justice system that incarcerates poor black men on a mass scale--a self-defeating system that measures success by arrest quotas and fosters a street code at odds with the rest of society--and argues for drug legalization as the only realistic way to end drug violence and let cops once again protect and serve. Moskos shows how officers in the ghetto are less concerned with those policed than with self-preservation and maximizing overtime pay--yet how any one of them would give their life for a fellow officer. Cop in the Hood ventures deep behind the Thin Blue Line to disclose the inner workings of law enforcement in America’s inner cities. Those who read it will never view the badge the same way again.

Book Document Retrieval Index

Download or read book Document Retrieval Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Policing the Media

    Book Details:
  • Author : David D. Perlmutter
  • Publisher : SAGE Publications
  • Release : 2000-02-10
  • ISBN : 1452267723
  • Pages : 177 pages

Download or read book Policing the Media written by David D. Perlmutter and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2000-02-10 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policing the Media is an investigation into one of the paradoxes of the mass-mediated age. Issues, events, and people that we "see" most on our television screens are often those that we understand the least. David Perlmutter examined this issue as it relates to one of the most frequently portrayed groups of people on television: police officers. Policing the Media is a report on the ethnography of a police department, derived from the author′s experience riding on patrol with officers and joining the department as a reserve policeman. Drawing upon interviews, personal observations, and the author′s black-and-white photographs of cops and the "clients," Perlmutter describes the lives and philosophies of street patrol officers. He finds that cops hold ambiguous attitudes toward their television comrades, for much of TV copland is fantastic and preposterous. Even those programs that boast gritty realism little resemble actual police work. Moreover, the officers perceive that the public′s attitudes toward law enforcement and crime are directly (and largely nefariously) influenced by mass media. This in turn, he suggests, influences the way that they themselves behave and "perform" on the street, and that unreal and surreal expectations of them are propagated by television cop shows. This cycle of perceptual influence may itself profoundly impact the contemporary criminal justice system, on the street, in the courts, and in the hearts and minds of ordinary people.

Book Street Stories

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Jackall
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-08-05
  • ISBN : 0674264665
  • Pages : 440 pages

Download or read book Street Stories written by Robert Jackall and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-05 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detectives work the streets--an arena of action, vice, lust, greed, aggression, and violence--to gather shards of information about who did what to whom. They also work the cumbersome machinery of the justice system--semi-military police hierarchies with their endless jockeying for prestige, procedure-driven district attorney offices, and backlogged courts--transforming hard-won street knowledge into public narratives of responsibility for crime. Street Stories, based on years of fieldwork with the New York City Police Department and the District Attorney of New York, examines the moral ambiguities of the detectives' world as they shuttle between the streets and a bureaucratic behemoth. In piecing together street stories to solve intriguing puzzles of agency and motive, detectives crisscross the checkerboard of urban life. Their interactions in social strata high and low foster cosmopolitan habits of mind and easy conversational skills. And they become incomparable storytellers. This book brims with the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction violence of the underworld and tells about a justice apparatus that splinters knowledge, reduces life-and-death issues to arcane hair-splitting, and makes rationality a bedfellow of absurdity. Detectives' stories lay bare their occupational consciousness--the cunning and trickery of their investigative craft, their self-images, moral rules-in-use, and judgments about the players in their world--as well as their personal ambitions, sensibilities, resentments, hopes, and fears. When detectives do make cases, they take satisfaction in removing predators from the streets and helping to ensure public safety. But their stories also illuminate dark corners of a troubled social order.

Book The Last Neighborhood Cops

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gregory Holcomb Umbach
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 081354906X
  • Pages : 251 pages

Download or read book The Last Neighborhood Cops written by Gregory Holcomb Umbach and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, community policing has transformed American law enforcement by promising to build trust between citizens and officers. Today, three-quarters of American police departments claim to embrace the strategy. But decades before the phrase was coined, the New York City Housing Authority Police Department (HAPD) had pioneered community-based crime-fighting strategies. The Last Neighborhood Cops reveals the forgotten history of the residents and cops who forged community policing in the public housing complexes of New York City during the second half of the twentieth century. Through a combination of poignant storytelling and historical analysis, Fritz Umbach draws on buried and confidential police records and voices of retired officers and older residents to help explore the rise and fall of the HAPD's community-based strategy, while questioning its tactical effectiveness. The result is a unique perspective on contemporary debates of community policing and historical developments chronicling the influence of poor and working-class populations on public policy making.

Book Ghetto Cops

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bruce Henderson
  • Publisher : Rosetta Books
  • Release : 2018-12-12
  • ISBN : 079535214X
  • Pages : 161 pages

Download or read book Ghetto Cops written by Bruce Henderson and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestselling author recounts riding along with street cops in California’s most dangerous city: Compton (Los Angeles Times). In 1974, Compton, California, had the highest per capita crime rate in the nation. And Bruce Henderson, then a young, idealistic newspaper reporter, was determined to spend the summer riding with the Compton police. His journalistic accounts of the day-to-day activities he witnessed is a vivid narrative dramatic, violent, and at times humorous incidents. Featuring illuminating pictures from award-winning photographer Phil Nelson, Ghetto Cops unmasks the city and its cops to reveal a side of street crime most of us never see. “They bust a lot of ass in Compton. It’s a tough city that is a virtual powder keg…For the police, the streets are a battlefield and working on any shift is like going to war.” —Los Angeles Free Press “You don’t put down Ghetto Copsonce you pick it up.” —Livermore (CA) Independent

Book Two Cultures of Policing

Download or read book Two Cultures of Policing written by Elizabeth Reuss-Ianni and published by Transaction Pub. This book was released on 1993 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence and functioning of two competing and sometimes conflicting cultures within police departments demonstrates how competition between street cops and “bosses” is at the heart of the organizational dilemma of modern urban policing. Unlike other works in this field that focus on the monolithic culture or familial quality of policing, this study demonstrates that which might look cohesive from the point of view of outsiders has its own internal dynamics and conflicts. The book shows that police departments are not immune to the conflict inherent in any large-scale bureaucracy, when externally imposed management schemes for increasing efficiency and effectiveness are imposed on an existing social organization. Based upon two years of extensive field work, in which the author covered every major aspect of policing at the precinct level in the New York City police department from manning the complaint desk to riding in squad cars. Ianni shows how the organized structure of the police department is disintegrating. The new “Management Cop Culture” is bureaucratically juxtaposed to the precinct level “Street Cop Culture,” and bosses' loyalties to the social and political networks of management cops rather than to the men on the street causes a sharp division with grave consequences for the departments. The study concentrates on a series of dramatic events, such as the suicide of a police officer charged with corruption, a major riot, and the trial of an officer accused of killing a prisoner while in police custody. Ianni traces how these events affected relationships among fellow officers and between officers and “bosses.”

Book The Thin Black Line

Download or read book The Thin Black Line written by Hugh Holton and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-01-19 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nonfiction collection of the exploits and accomplishments of African American law enforcement officers.

Book The Teacher Wars

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dana Goldstein
  • Publisher : Anchor
  • Release : 2015-08-04
  • ISBN : 0345803620
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book The Teacher Wars written by Dana Goldstein and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education that brings the lessons of the past to bear on the dilemmas we face today—and brilliantly illuminates the path forward for public schools. “[A] lively account." —New York Times Book Review In The Teacher Wars, a rich, lively, and unprecedented history of public school teaching, Dana Goldstein reveals that teachers have been embattled for nearly two centuries. She uncovers the surprising roots of hot button issues, from teacher tenure to charter schools, and finds that recent popular ideas to improve schools—instituting merit pay, evaluating teachers by student test scores, ranking and firing veteran teachers, and recruiting “elite” graduates to teach—are all approaches that have been tried in the past without producing widespread change.

Book Chicago Street Cop

Download or read book Chicago Street Cop written by Pat McCarthy and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surviving a career in law enforcement involves a considerable amount of natural instinct, skill, luck, and intellect. Fortunately for Pat McCarthy, he possessed all of these, some more than others, at different times.

Book The Impact of Campus Public Safety Operations and Crime Prevention Program Implementation Upon Serious Criminality at U S  Colleges and Universities

Download or read book The Impact of Campus Public Safety Operations and Crime Prevention Program Implementation Upon Serious Criminality at U S Colleges and Universities written by Donald Charles Hummer and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: