Download or read book The Most Incredible Law Enforcement Stories Ever Told written by Jonathan Hunt and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a cop or an aspiring police officer in the making? Do you love inspirational true stories about the true heroes of our society? Then this book is for you. While the daily work of an ordinary police officer is often slow and monotonous, every police officer serving must be prepared at a moment's notice to demonstrate bravery and determination when an unexpected situation suddenly arises. The Most Incredible Law Enforcement Stories Ever Told details stories of police officers who demonstrate the highest ideals of what a law enforcement officer should be. The police officers in these stories exhibit the right balance between courage and decisiveness to ensure that members of the general public were kept safe. You'll read about the inspiring acts of heroes such as: - David Muniz, a cop from Cleveland who demonstrated incredible restraint to talk down a violent and armed alcoholic...even after being shot in the chest by him. - Mario Gutierrez, a Miami officer who sustained multiple stab wounds to stop a mass killer from setting fire to a gas station. - Terrance Yeakey, who saved the lives of multiple children from the rubble of the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. - Liang Xiao, who stopped a suicidal man from falling to his death by using his own body as a cushion. - Clare Chalmers, a Scottish Constable who stopped a male knife-wielding assailant from murdering an innocent woman. While the extraordinary circumstances that each of the police officers faced in this book differ drastically from one another, they are all united in that each officer acted with the utmost courage to ensure the protection and survival of those who were caught in danger. Are you ready to be inspired and learn more about these brave men and women? Get The Most Incredible Law Enforcement Stories Ever Told right now!
Download or read book Cleveland Cops written by John Tidyman and published by Gray & Company. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book should be required reading for every elected official and for every citizen." -- Chief Edward P. Kovacic (retired), Cleveland Police Department Gritty, scary, hilarious, and heartbreaking . . . these remarkable true stories will take you on the roller coaster ride that is life as a Cleveland police officer. These are the real stories cops trade with each other after the shift, over a couple of beers. They're stories the rest of us rarely get to hear, because cops are often reluctant to open their world to outsiders. But now they share their compelling personal tales with the rest of us. Listen in as dozens of cops--active and retired, young and old, from rookie to chief--tell about their most memorable moments patrolling the streets of Cleveland. The biggest arrests, the dumbest criminals, the funniest practical jokes, the most frightening calls . . . Their stories will give you goose bumps on one page and make you laugh until you're gasping for breath on the next. Some hit like a punch in the gut, some will make you stop and wonder. On this ride you'll get a front-seat look at one of the toughest jobs in town--and gain a better understanding of the men and women who put their lives on the line every day to do it. A real eye-opener, and great fun to read.
Download or read book Good Cop Bad Criminal written by Gary Sahlin and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary Sahlin was a good cop, but a bad criminal. His childhood dream was to become a police officer. He accomplished this dream after serving honorably in the United States Navy. Then, after a series of unfortunate events, and some very poor decisions, he ended up in the federal prison system serving a twenty-year sentence for a bank robbery. Instead of wallowing in depression with the way his life turned out he decided to turn a negative situation into a positive one. Navigating through the justice system as an ex-cop wasn't always easy, but he made it and he came out a much better person. He is now sharing his story about living on both sides of the law in an entertaining, informative and compelling new book titled: Good Cop, Bad Criminal: Becoming a Cop, a Criminal and Life on Both Sides of the Law.
Download or read book The Greatest Spy Stories Ever Told written by Lamar Underwood and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories from the Civil War through WWII In The Greatest Spy Stories Ever Told, our editor has pulled together some of the finest writings about spies that capture readers imaginations. The one thing the heroes in this collection have in common is the ability to seamlessly shift identities. Each of the men and women in these stories had the courage to meet and study their enemies, gather critical intelligence, and then relay those secrets at risk of being exposed—to do what they had to because that was their duty and the lives of others meant more to them than their own. Chosen from hundreds of accounts of singular devotion to duty, the stories in Greatest Spy Stories stand out for their jaw-dropping tales of bravery. They are the best. No small feat.
Download or read book For Thou Art with Me written by David O'Hara and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Thou Art with Me is the incredible memoir of a man's long and difficult journey through a career in law enforcement that spanned nearly four decades. The chapters are filled with excitement and suspense as he deals with the worst in society--broken families, oft deplorable conditions, death and violence, and citizens who always seemed to be at their worst. When victimized, citizens suffer some of the worst experiences of their lives; and those who victimize them are often frightened, angry, and sometimes violent. The prospect of losing one's freedom brings out the worst in people. The author's reason for choosing law enforcement as a career was based on a strong desire to help others, serve his country, and find excitement. He finds all that and more, much of which is discouraging. It isn't long before he begins to realize that one of his primary goals had been to ensure justice for those he served. This leads him to realize that the justice he has been seeking is elusive and flawed because it is from man. What takes him even longer to realize is that he has been looking in the wrong place for his answers. As he sinks deep into depression and alcoholism caused by post-traumatic stress and other career stressors, he fails to notice that God had been patiently waiting for him to see the light--that, as is often the case, God allows his children to suffer in order to bring them closer to him. Once he realized this, the writer's story becomes one of joy, faith, and renewal of the spirit. He accepts Christ as the true author of his life, and conveys his faith to the readers in the fervent hope that they will experience a similar life-changing awakening. As he finds his redemption and the answer for his life's challenges, he becomes convinced that others will also find them through our only true source, Jesus Christ.
Download or read book Necessary Chances 30 Years of Law Enforcement Stories written by D. Normand and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 30 years of law enforcement memories, reduced to 50 essays on subjects covering most aspects of Police work. Stories of the training of recruits, and selecting applicants, are told along with Death investigations, and car chases. Above all the humor of the job, or at least the ability to see that humor as a means of surviving the job.
Download or read book America s Dumbest Criminals written by Daniel R. Butler and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 1995 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This hysterical collection of stories of actual crimes committed by clumsy#xD;crooks and fumbling felons will have you laughing out loud at painfully dumb#xD;attempts at crime. Illustrated.
Download or read book LAPD CHRONICLES written by Hank Foresta and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a seldom-told true story of some of the law enforcement heroes. They worked long and hard in incredibly dangerous and uncomfortable situations, fighting the war on drugs, which no one but them ever expected. They started before there was a declaration of war. From personal and professional experience, they knew that this country, its people, its institutions, its economy, and its leadership in the free world were in peril. They saw the growing menace to our kids, to our schools, and even to law enforcement. Someone had to fight back with uncommon valor and dedication. More than four thousand three hundred people have been killed in the last year and a half. Police stations have been bombed, and officers have been shot and killed in police facilities. Some police officials have been kidnapped, shot gangland style, tortured, and even beheaded. Police and government officials at the highest levels have been the object of assassination and, along with their bodyguards, shot and killed. In one city, thirteen people were shot and killed in one evening and left dead in the street. In another city, sixteen people, including a twelve-year-old girl, were shot. The government sent in the military in large numbers, but the killings continued.
Download or read book Unbelievable written by T. Christian Miller and published by Crown. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now the Netflix Limited Series Unbelievable, starring Toni Collette, Merritt Wever, and Kaitlyn Dever • Two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists tell the riveting true crime story of a teenager charged with lying about having been raped—and the detectives who followed a winding path to arrive at the truth. “Gripping . . . [with a] John Grisham–worthy twist.”—Emily Bazelon, New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) On August 11, 2008, eighteen-year-old Marie reported that a masked man broke into her apartment near Seattle, Washington, and raped her. Within days police and even those closest to Marie became suspicious of her story. The police swiftly pivoted and began investigating Marie. Confronted with inconsistencies in her story and the doubts of others, Marie broke down and said her story was a lie—a bid for attention. Police charged Marie with false reporting, and she was branded a liar. More than two years later, Colorado detective Stacy Galbraith was assigned to investigate a case of sexual assault. Describing the crime to her husband that night, Galbraith learned that the case bore an eerie resemblance to a rape that had taken place months earlier in a nearby town. She joined forces with the detective on that case, Edna Hendershot, and the two soon discovered they were dealing with a serial rapist: a man who photographed his victims, threatening to release the images online, and whose calculated steps to erase all physical evidence suggested he might be a soldier or a cop. Through meticulous police work the detectives would eventually connect the rapist to other attacks in Colorado—and beyond. Based on investigative files and extensive interviews with the principals, Unbelievable is a serpentine tale of doubt, lies, and a hunt for justice, unveiling the disturbing truth of how sexual assault is investigated today—and the long history of skepticism toward rape victims. Previously published as A False Report
Download or read book Vice written by John R. Baker and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 9 square miles. 10,000 criminals. 130 cops. A riveting memoir by Baker, California's most-decorated police officer Compton: the most violent and crime-ridden city in America. What had been a semi-rural suburb of Los Angeles in the 1950s became a battleground for the Black Panthers and Malcolm X Foundation, the home of the Crips and Bloods and the first Hispanic gangs, and the cradle of gangster rap. At the center of it, trying to maintain order was the Compton Police Department, never more than 130-strong, and facing an army of criminals that numbered over 10,000. At any given time, fully one-tenth of Compton's population was in prison, yet this tidal wave of crime was held back by the thinnest line of the law—the Compton Police. John R. Baker was raised in Compton, eventually becoming the city's most decorated officer involved in some of its most notorious, horrifying and scandalous criminal cases. Baker's account of Compton from 1950 to 2001 is one of the most powerful and compelling cop memoirs ever written—an intensely human account of sacrifice and public service, and the price the men and women of the Compton Police Department paid to preserve their city.
Download or read book Friends of the Family written by Tommy Dades and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the most spectacular cases of police corruption in the city.” —New York Times Friends of the Family is a look deep inside the most notorious case to rock the NYPD: The story of Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, the two police detectives who moonlighted as mob hit men. As told by Tommy Dades and Michael Vecchione—the cop and District Attorney investigator who solved New York’s coldest case—along with co-writer David Fisher, Friends of the Family is shocking true crime in the tradition of Nicolas Pileggi’s Wiseguys and Underboss by Peter Mass—a chilling, in-depth examination of what the New York Daily News calls “the worst betrayal of the badge in the NYPD’s history.”
Download or read book U S Marshals Enhanced Edition written by Mike Earp and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enhanced digital edition of U.S. Marshals: Inside America's Most Storied Law Enforcement Agency features 6 videos of exclusive interviews with former U.S. Marshals sharing their incredible stories plus discussions with authors Mike Earp and David Fisher. Blending history and memoir, retired U.S. Marshal Mike Earp—a descendant of the legendary lawman Wyatt Earp—offers an exclusive and fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the most storied law enforcement agency in America, illuminating its vital role in the nation's development for more than two hundred years. Mike Earp spent his career with the U.S. Marshals Service, reaching the number three position in the organization's hierarchy before he retired. In this fascinating, eye-opening book, written with the service's full cooperation, he shares his experiences and takes us on a fascinating tour of this extraordinary organization—the oldest, the most effective, and the most dangerous branch of American law enforcement, and the least known. Unlike their counterparts in the police and the FBI, U.S. Marshals aren't responsible for investigating or prosecuting crimes. They pursue and arrest the most dangerous criminal offenders on U.S. soil, an extraordinarily hazardous job often involving gun battles and physical altercations. Earp takes us back to the service's early days, explaining its creation and its role in the border wars that helped make continental expansion possible. He brings to life the gunslingers and gunfights that have made the Marshals legend, and explores the service's role today integrating federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies in the hunt for the most notorious criminals—terrorists, drug lords, gun runners. Setting his own experiences within the long history of the U.S. Marshals service, Earp offers a moving and illuminating tribute to the brave marshals who have dedicated their lives to keeping the nation safe.
Download or read book Police Heroes written by Charles R. Whitlock and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are more than one million law enforcement officers in the United States. In this book, you will meet police officers from all parts of the country who take their oath seriously, and when confronted with life-threatening circumstances, have acted courageously. You'll read about a patrol officer who, after discovering a house on fire eary one morning, rescued its inhabitants before the fire department could arrive. Imagine the courage required by one state trooper who single-handedly brought five armed robbers to justice in Alaska's wilderness. One stalwart officer used his body to shield a homeless man from an angry armed mob while his partner helped fend off the attackers. Readers will meet one officer who distinguished himself throughout his incredible career with numerous feats of heroism. You'll be touched by the valor of the K-9 officers and their handlers. And of course, there is a powerful piece on police heroism on September 11th. Filled with stories about Americas finest officers, this book is a moving tribute to our country's unsung heroes.
Download or read book The Brotherhood Blue Venom written by Walter Brey and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a chronology of my 31 years as a trooper with the Michigan State Police. It contains a blow by blow rendition of continued police commander misuse and abuse of power. This book is a chronology of commander misconduct and persecution which continued for the totality of my career. You will read about how I made them pay for their transgressions. This vengeful and hateful behavior by the police commanders is intertwined with some of the most bizarre events and circumstances you could imagine. This book will take you inside the cop shop. It will take you behind the scenes and you will become enlightened to some of the strangest happenings that could ever occur there. You will also meet some of the most interesting characters within the police community. This book will give you a better understanding of why sometimes crimes go unsolved or why sometimes it takes forever for a criminal to be brought to justice. In reading this book, you will sometimes wonder how there would ever be any time left for crime investigation with all else that is going on within the department. It will give an understanding of what type of person becomes a police officer. The book is serious, sad and comical all wrapped up in one package. You will walk and sometimes run along side me through my career while I describe in detail the battles I encountered.
Download or read book The Funniest Cop Stories Ever written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nothing quite prepares you for what you will see on the street once you become a cop. It is one of the most dangerous jobs a person can do but also the most fun as well." —Scott BakerCops are the people who see and hear it all. They work at one of the world's most dangerous jobs, but it's also one of the most entertaining. When their lives are at risk — and even when they aren't — cops encounter constant weirdness and stupidity in human behavior. The Funniest Cop Stories Ever collects the strangest, most amusing stories about stupid crooks, bungled crimes and station-house banter. A true look at what life is like behind the badge, the tales in The Funniest Cop Stories Ever were collected by real-life ex-New York City policeman Scott Baker and coauthor Tom Philbin. Anecdotes are told by the real-life cops who experienced them and include: A foot chase after a dwarf who karate-kicked his girlfriend's door and assaulted her while wearing a tuxedo and carrying a violin case. A beggar who ended people's pay phone calls so he could demand their extra spare change. A narcotics bust on a guy who claimed the crack cocaine — and his pants — didn't belong to him.
Download or read book Blue on Blue written by Charles Campisi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one of the most illuminating portraits of police work ever, Chief Charles Campisi describes the inner workings of the world’s largest police force and his unprecedented career putting bad cops behind bars. “Compelling, educational, memorable…this superb memoir can be read for its sheer entertainment or as a primer on police work—or both” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). From 1996 to 2014 Charles Campisi headed NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau, working under four police commissioners and gaining a reputation as hard-nosed and incorruptible. During Campisi’s IAB tenure, the number of New Yorkers shot, wounded, or killed by cops every year declined by ninety percent, and the number of cops failing integrity tests shrank to an equally startling low. But to achieve those exemplary results, Campisi had to triple IAB’s staff, hire the very best detectives, and put the word out that corruption wouldn’t be tolerated. Blue on Blue provides “a rare glimpse inside one of the most secretive branches of policing…and a compelling, behind-the-scenes account of what it takes to investigate police officers who cross the line between guardians of the public to criminals. It’s a mesmerizing exposé on the harsh realities and complexities of being a cop on the mean streets of New York City and the challenges of enforcing the law while at the same time obeying it” (The New York Journal of Books). Campisi allows us to listen in on wiretaps and feel the adrenaline rush of drawing in the net. It also reveals new threats to the force, such as the possibility of infiltration by terrorists. “A lively memoir [told with] verve, intriguing detail, and a generous heart” (The Wall Street Journal) and “an expose of the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureaus [that is] enlightening and entertaining” (The New York Times Book Review), Blue on Blue will forever change the way you view police work.
Download or read book Tangled Up in Blue written by Rosa Brooks and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the best nonfiction books of the year by The Washington Post “Tangled Up in Blue is a wonderfully insightful book that provides a lens to critically analyze urban policing and a road map for how our most dispossessed citizens may better relate to those sworn to protect and serve.” —The Washington Post “Remarkable . . . Brooks has produced an engaging page-turner that also outlines many broadly applicable lessons and sensible policy reforms.” —Foreign Affairs Journalist and law professor Rosa Brooks goes beyond the "blue wall of silence" in this radical inside examination of American policing In her forties, with two children, a spouse, a dog, a mortgage, and a full-time job as a tenured law professor at Georgetown University, Rosa Brooks decided to become a cop. A liberal academic and journalist with an enduring interest in law's troubled relationship with violence, Brooks wanted the kind of insider experience that would help her understand how police officers make sense of their world—and whether that world can be changed. In 2015, against the advice of everyone she knew, she applied to become a sworn, armed reserve police officer with the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department. Then as now, police violence was constantly in the news. The Black Lives Matter movement was gaining momentum, protests wracked America's cities, and each day brought more stories of cruel, corrupt cops, police violence, and the racial disparities that mar our criminal justice system. Lines were being drawn, and people were taking sides. But as Brooks made her way through the police academy and began work as a patrol officer in the poorest, most crime-ridden neighborhoods of the nation's capital, she found a reality far more complex than the headlines suggested. In Tangled Up in Blue, Brooks recounts her experiences inside the usually closed world of policing. From street shootings and domestic violence calls to the behind-the-scenes police work during Donald Trump's 2016 presidential inauguration, Brooks presents a revelatory account of what it's like inside the "blue wall of silence." She issues an urgent call for new laws and institutions, and argues that in a nation increasingly divided by race, class, ethnicity, geography, and ideology, a truly transformative approach to policing requires us to move beyond sound bites, slogans, and stereotypes. An explosive and groundbreaking investigation, Tangled Up in Blue complicates matters rather than simplifies them, and gives pause both to those who think police can do no wrong—and those who think they can do no right.
