Download or read book Smalltown Corruption written by Reg Owens and published by . This book was released on 2008-07-03 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small Town Corruption is both humorous and sad. This novel depicts just how low government officials, workers, and law enforcement will stoop for money, power, and torture. Like forcing a water hose down a handcuffed arrestee's throat and turning on the water, sticking pistols in the faces of 10 and an 11 year old boys on a drug raid. In chapter one a black businessman is forced to shell out over ten thousand dollars in lawyer fees because the homosexual sheriff tried to plant marked bills in his home. This book is filled with incidents taken from real life in just one small town in Georgia. A county employee steals from the county for over 30 years and becomes a millionaire. Corruption such as this is found in towns and counties all over the country and around the world. This is one book you can't stop reading until the end. Reg Owens paints a vivid description of the evils of Elway. For a sample of this powerful novel, download Chapters ONE free at http://regowens.homestead.com

Download or read book Small Town Corruption written by Jack Atchison and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently retired from the Detroit Police Department Homicide Division, Max Stecker moves to a small town in Kansas to start a second career. Getting the detective position with the Nubbin County Sheriff's department seemed like the perfect answer to relieve his current boredom. Expecting an easy job Max quickly finds himself in the midst of corruption and murder.What first appears as a small money generating scheme by members of the sheriff's office and police department balloons into corrupt land deals and murder. Max is embroiled in an ever expanding investigation and wonders whether his choice of a second career was a mistake.

Download or read book Dirty Cops and Small Town Politics written by Aldora Wallace and published by . This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After millions of dollars are pilfered from insurance companies & local citizens by Cavern's very own police force & other local officials, the fiery tale is finally told. This story captivated the small town of Cavern as well as surrounding areas for a period of several years. The investigations & court proceedings that resulted from these crime sprees proved to discredit many officials & caused much scandal. The chance for easy money that lures so many criminals down the path of destruction had also caught Cal Cinder. He could not have imagined what was to come, nor could any of the others involved. The greed became a haze, clouding judgment & ultimately becoming a tool of death. This tumultuous tale of arson, money & power in a small New England town stormed the local & surrounding newspapers. The Boston Globe even caught wind of the scandal. Some have paid with their lives to bring this story forth, while others have paid with their lives to prevent it from coming forth. Now it is here for you to read, to wonder & to judge for yourselves exactly what did happen.

Download or read book The Failure of Governance in Bell California written by Thom Reilly and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “How could this have happened?” The question still lingers among officials and residents of the small southern California town of Bell. Corruption is hardly an isolated challenge to the governance of America’s cities. But following decades of benign obscurity, Bell witnessed the emergence of a truly astonishing level of public wrongdoing—a level succinctly described by Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley as “corruption on steroids.” Even discounting the enormous sums involved—the top administrator paid himself nearly $800,000 a year in a town with a $35,000 average income—this was no ordinary failure of governance. The picture that emerges from years of federal, state, and local investigations, trials, depositions, and media accounts is of an elaborate culture of corruption and deceit created and sustained by top city administrators, councilmembers, police officers, numerous municipal employees, and consultants. The Failure of Governance in Bell California: Big-Time Corruption in a Small Town details how Bell was rendered vulnerable to such massive malfeasance by a disengaged public, lack of established ethical norms, absence of effective checks and balances, and minimal coverage by an overextended area news media. It is a grim and nearly unbelievable story. Yet even these factors fail to fully explain how such large-scale corruption could have arisen. More specifically, how did it occur within a structure—the council-manager form of government—that had been deliberately designed to promote good governance? Why were so many officials and employees prepared to participate in or overlook the ongoing corruption? To what degree can theories of governance, such as contagion theory or the “rover bandit” theme, explain the success of such blatant wrongdoing? The Failure of Governance, by Arizona State University Professor Thom Reilly—himself former county manager of Clark County, Nevada—pursues answers to these and related questions through an analysis of municipal operations that will afford the reader deeper insight into the inner workings of city governments—corrupt and otherwise. By considering factors arising from both theory and practice, Reilly makes clear, in other words, why the sad saga of Bell, California represents both a case study and a warning.

Download or read book Small Town Corruption written by Liz Turner and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-02 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FREE WITH KINDLE UNLIMITED Small Town Corruption (A Dana Potter Cozy Mystery) Dana Potter can't believe her eyes when she witnesses a well-to-do woman stealing from a homeless man in broad daylight! Her town of Pippin, Georgia, is tiny and full of southern charm and hospitality. Why, they've hardly had someone litter there since Dana can remember, let alone steal in such a depraved way! Her curiosity, and her indignation, are piqued as she becomes determined to bring the perpetrator to justice. Her little investigation quickly turns into something far more sinister. The closer she gets to the mystery woman, the more she begins to suspect that the woman might not be as evil as she once believed. Over the next few days, Ms. Potter leverages her natural busybody spirit to get to the bottom of the real evil out there. Along the way, she finds herself in situations she never would have imagined: face-to-face with a pistol, hoisting herself into an old sailboat, and reuniting two estranged lovers. Get your copy today!

Download or read book Tenaha written by Stewart Fillmore and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tenaha Corruption and Cover-up in Small Town Texas. The FBI steps in when CNN reports that motorists are being targeted on a lonely stretch of highway in rural East Texas. But as Special Agent Stewart Fillmore investigates, the case takes a strange and deadly turn. He uncovers levels of lies and corruption, centering on drug dealing and a mysterious death.

Download or read book Tulia written by Nate Blakeslee and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2006-09-12 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This true story of race and injustice in a small west Texas town "resembles . . . a modern day To Kill a Mockingbird -- or would, that is, if the novel were a true story and Atticus had won" (New York Times Book Review) In the summer of 1999, in the tiny west Texas town of Tulia, thirty-nine people, almost all of them black, were arrested and charged with dealing powdered cocaine. At trial, the prosecution relied almost solely on the uncorroborated, and contradictory, testimony of one police officer. Despite the flimsiness of the evidence against them, virtually all of the defendants were convicted and given sentences as high as ninety-nine years. Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas prize for excellence in nonfiction, Tulia is the story of this town, the bust, the trials, and the heroic legal battle that ultimately led to the reversal of the convictions. But the story is much bigger than the tale of just one bust. As Tulia makes clear, these events are the latest chapter in a story with themes as old as the country itself. It is a gripping, marvelously well-told tale about injustice, race, poverty, hysteria, and desperation in rural America.

Download or read book The Politics of Local Government written by Barry E. Truchil and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining scholarly literature with elected experience at the local governmental level, Barry E. Truchil addresses the inner workings and politics of local government in small town and suburban settings in The Politics of Local Government. This book explores issues involving development and implementation of budgets, regulation, and control of development (including conversion of open space to housing and business buildings), as well as the initiation of progressive changes such as the use of green energy and control of corruption. Given the limited available research in this area, this book fills a void for scholars in the field, undergraduate and graduate students as well as those interested in the politics of local government.

Download or read book Crime and Policing in Rural and Small Town America written by Ralph A. Weisheit and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2005-09-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While most researchers see the urban setting as being the only laboratory for studying crime problems throughout the United States, Crime and Policing in Rural and Small-Town America directly challenges this notion with an authoritative look at crime and the criminal justice system in rural America today. The assumption that rural crime is rare and comparable across various communities has led to incompatible theories and irrelevant practices. In order to transform this misconstruction, the Third Edition offers a clear outline of the definition of rural and provides a vital argument for why rural and small-town crime should be studied more than it is. The book also explores the individual nature of issues that emerge in these communities, including illegal drug production, domestic violence, agricultural crimes, rural poverty, and gangs, in addition to the training needs of rural police, probation in rural areas, and rural jails and prisons. Responding to rural crime requires an awareness of its context and how justice is carried out, as well as an appreciation of how features vary across rural areas. Understanding the relationships among crime, geography, and culture in the rural setting can reveal useful ideas and implications for crime and justice in communities across the United States.

Download or read book The Shame of the Cities written by Lincoln Steffens and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shame of the Cities is a book written by Lincoln Steffens. It accounts for the workings of corrupt political procedures in several major U.S. cities, along with a few attempts to fight against them.

Download or read book Not in My Town written by Dirk Cochran and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small town corruption and an organized vigilante group mess with an out of town family. All with battle experience. They team up with a local man who just became the group most recent victim. Corruption expands across the country with drugs. gunrunning to terrorist, and bootlegging to locals.

Download or read book Corrupt Cities written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the devastation caused by the recent earthquake in Turkey was the result of widespread corruption between the construction industry and government officials. Corruption is part of everyday public life and we tend to take it for granted. However, preventing corruption helps to raise city revenues, improve service delivery, stimulate public confidence and participation, and win elections. This book is designed to help citizens and public officials diagnose, investigate and prevent various kinds of corrupt and illicit behaviour. It focuses on systematic corruption rather than the free-lance activity of a few law-breakers, and emphasises practical preventive measures rather than purely punitive or moralistic campaigns.

Download or read book On Corruption in America written by Sarah Chayes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the prizewinning journalist and internationally recognized expert on corruption in government networks throughout the world comes a major work that looks homeward to America, exploring the insidious, dangerous networks of corruption of our past, present, and precarious future. “If you want to save America, this might just be the most important book to read now." —Nancy MacLean, author of Democracy in Chains Sarah Chayes writes in her new book, that the United States is showing signs similar to some of the most corrupt countries in the world. Corruption, she argues, is an operating system of sophisticated networks in which government officials, key private-sector interests, and out-and-out criminals interweave. Their main objective: not to serve the public but to maximize returns for network members. In this unflinching exploration of corruption in America, Chayes exposes how corruption has thrived within our borders, from the titans of America's Gilded Age (Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, et al.) to the collapse of the stock market in 1929, the Great Depression, and FDR's New Deal; from Joe Kennedy's years of banking, bootlegging, machine politics, and pursuit of infinite wealth to the deregulation of the Reagan Revolution--undermining this nation's proud middle class and union members. She then brings us up to the present as she shines a light on the Clinton policies of political favors and personal enrichment and documents Trump's hydra-headed network of corruption, which aimed to systematically undo the Constitution and our laws. Ultimately and most importantly, Chayes reveals how corrupt systems are organized, how they enable bad actors to bend the rules so their crimes are covered legally, how they overtly determine the shape of our government, and how they affect all levels of society, especially when the corruption is overlooked and downplayed by the rich and well-educated.

Download or read book The Failure of Governance in Bell California written by Thom Reilly and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 2000s, the small southern California town of Bell erupted in a scandal that revealed a truly astonishing level of municipal corruption--one prosecutor called it "corruption on steroids." This book details why Bell was vulnerable to such massive malfeasance and what steps could be taken to reduce the chances of it happening again.

Download or read book Soft Corruption written by William E. Schluter and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Jersey has long been a breeding ground for political corruption, and most of it is perfectly legal. Public officials accept favors from lobbyists, give paid positions to relatives, and rig the electoral process to favor their cronies in a system where campaign money is used to buy government results. Such unethical behavior is known as “soft corruption,” and former New Jersey legislator William E. Schluter has been fighting it for the past fifty years. In this searing personal narrative, the former state senator recounts his fight to expose and reform these acts of government misconduct. Not afraid to cite specific cases of soft corruption in New Jersey politics, he paints a vivid portrait of public servants who care more about political power and personal gain than the public good. By recounting events that he witnessed firsthand in the Garden State, he provides dramatic illustrations of ills that afflict American politics nationwide. As he identifies five main forms of soft corruption, Schluter diagnoses the state government’s ethical malaise, and offers concrete policy suggestions for how it might be cured. Not simply a dive through the muck of New Jersey politics, Soft Corruption is an important first step to reforming our nation’s political system, a book that will inspire readers to demand that our elected officials can and must do better. Visit: www.softcorruption.com (http://www.softcorruption.com)

Download or read book Tulia written by Nate Blakeslee and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2006-09-12 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This true story of race and injustice in a small west Texas town "resembles . . . a modern day To Kill a Mockingbird -- or would, that is, if the novel were a true story and Atticus had won" (New York Times Book Review) In the summer of 1999, in the tiny west Texas town of Tulia, thirty-nine people, almost all of them black, were arrested and charged with dealing powdered cocaine. At trial, the prosecution relied almost solely on the uncorroborated, and contradictory, testimony of one police officer. Despite the flimsiness of the evidence against them, virtually all of the defendants were convicted and given sentences as high as ninety-nine years. Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas prize for excellence in nonfiction, Tulia is the story of this town, the bust, the trials, and the heroic legal battle that ultimately led to the reversal of the convictions. But the story is much bigger than the tale of just one bust. As Tulia makes clear, these events are the latest chapter in a story with themes as old as the country itself. It is a gripping, marvelously well-told tale about injustice, race, poverty, hysteria, and desperation in rural America.

Download or read book Unsettling Place to Settle written by Brodell James J. (author) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: