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Book The Vigilance Record

Download or read book The Vigilance Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vigilance

Download or read book Vigilance written by Ray Kelly and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two-time New York City police commissioner Ray Kelly opens up about his remarkable life, taking us inside fifty years of law enforcement leadership, offering chilling stories of terrorist plots after 9/11, and sharing his candid insights into the challenges and controversies cops face today. The son of a milkman and a Macy's dressing room checker, Ray Kelly grew up on New York City's Upper West Side, a middle-class neighborhood where Irish and Puerto Rican kids played stickball and tussled in the streets. He entered the police academy and served as a marine in Vietnam, living and fighting by the values that would carry him through a half century of leadership-justice, decisiveness, integrity, courage, and loyalty. Kelly soared through the NYPD ranks in decades marked by poverty, drugs, civil unrest, and a murder rate that, at its peak, spiked to over two thousand per year. Kelly came to be known as a tough leader, a fixer who could go into a troubled precinct and clean it up. That reputation catapulted him into his first stint as commissioner, under Mayor David Dinkins, where Kelly oversaw the police response to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and spearheaded programs that would help usher in the city's historic drop in crime. Eight years later, in the chaotic wake of the 9/11 attacks, newly elected mayor Michael Bloomberg tapped Kelly to be NYC's top cop once again. After a decade working with Interpol, serving as undersecretary of the Treasury for enforcement, overseeing U.S. Customs, and commanding an international police force in Haiti, Kelly understood that New York's security was synonymous with our national security. Believing that the city could not afford to rely solely on "the feds," he succeeded in transforming the NYPD from a traditional police department into a resource-rich counterterrorism-and-intelligence force. In this vital memoir, Kelly reveals the inside stories of his life in the hot seat of "the capital of the world"-from the terror plots that nearly brought a city to its knees to his dealings with politicians, including Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama as well as Mayors Rudolph Giuliani, Bloomberg, and Bill DeBlasio. He addresses criticisms and controversies like the so-called stop-question-and-frisk program and the rebuilding of the World Trade Center and offers his insights into the challenges that have recently consumed our nation's police forces, even as the need for vigilance remains as acute as ever.

Book San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856 Records

Download or read book San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856 Records written by San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856 and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection contains letters and documents related to individuals making charges or giving information about suspects or prisoners to the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856. It also contains completed applications for membership, lists of members and members of the executive committee, and financial documents.

Book Permanent Record

Download or read book Permanent Record written by Edward Snowden and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down. In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it. Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online—a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet’s conscience. Written with wit, grace, passion, and an unflinching candor, Permanent Record is a crucial memoir of our digital age and destined to be a classic.

Book Everyday Surveillance

Download or read book Everyday Surveillance written by William G. Staples and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we think of surveillance in our society, we usually imagine “Big Brother” scenarios with the government tracking our every move. The actual surveillance of our everyday lives is much more subtle, however, and may be more insidious. William G. Staples shows how our lives are tracked by both public and private organizations—sometimes with our consent, and sometimes without—through our internet use, cell phones, public video cameras, credit cards, license plates, shopping habits, and more. Everyday Surveillance is a provocative exploration of the myriad ways we are watched each day, and how this surveillance shapes our lives. Thoroughly revised, the second edition considers new topics, such as the rise of social media, and updates research throughout. Everyday Surveillance introduces students to concepts of social control and incites classroom discussion about how surveillance impacts the ways we understand people and our lives at home, work, school, or in the community.

Book The American Artisan and Hardware Record

Download or read book The American Artisan and Hardware Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of California

Download or read book History of California written by Theodore Henry Hittell and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A state iniquity  its rise  extension and overthrow  A concise history of the system of state regulated and licensed vice

Download or read book A state iniquity its rise extension and overthrow A concise history of the system of state regulated and licensed vice written by Benjamin Scott and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book West American History

Download or read book West American History written by Hubert Howe Bancroft and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New York Court of Appeals  Records and Briefs

Download or read book New York Court of Appeals Records and Briefs written by New York (State). Court of Appeals. and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume contains: 190 NY 545 (Strickland v. Magoun) 190 NY 555 (Sturmdorf v. Saunders) 190 NY 546 (Thieler v. Mary) 190 NY 206 (Volosko v. Interurban St. Rwy Co.) 190 NY 375 (Walters v. City of N.Y. )

Book Records   Briefs New York State Appellate Division

Download or read book Records Briefs New York State Appellate Division written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American State Trials

Download or read book American State Trials written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of England from the Earliest Dawn of Authentic Record     Embellished with     Engravings

Download or read book The History of England from the Earliest Dawn of Authentic Record Embellished with Engravings written by George Courtney LYTTLETON and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book University of California Publications in History

Download or read book University of California Publications in History written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vigilance

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  • Author : Andrew K. Diemer
  • Publisher : Knopf
  • Release : 2022-11-01
  • ISBN : 0593534395
  • Pages : 433 pages

Download or read book Vigilance written by Andrew K. Diemer and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable and inspiring story of William Still, an unknown abolitionist who dedicated his life to managing a critical section of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia—the free state directly north of the Mason-Dixon Line—helping hundreds of people escape from slavery. Born free in 1821 to two parents who had been enslaved, William Still was drawn to antislavery work from a young age. Hired as a clerk at the Anti-Slavery office in Philadelphia after teaching himself to read and write, he began directly assisting enslaved people who were crossing over from the South into freedom. Andrew Diemer captures the full range and accomplishments of Still’s life, from his resistance to Fugitive Slave Laws and his relationship with John Brown before the war, to his long career fighting for citizenship rights and desegregation until the early twentieth century. Despite Still’s disappearance from history books, during his lifetime he was known as “the Father of the Underground Railroad.” Working alongside Harriet Tubman and others at the center of the struggle for Black freedom, Still helped to lay the groundwork for long-lasting activism in the Black community, insisting that the success of their efforts lay not in the work of a few charismatic leaders, but in the cultivation of extensive grassroots networks. Through meticulous research and engaging writing, Vigilance establishes William Still in his rightful place in American history as a major figure of the abolitionist movement.

Book The Traffic in Obscenity From Byron to Beardsley

Download or read book The Traffic in Obscenity From Byron to Beardsley written by C. Colligan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-08-22 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colligan argues that Nineteenth-century obscenity was caught up in the global cultural traffic of print technology, international trade and exoticism. She reveals that obscenity intersected majority and minority culture, searched out new print and visual media, and built commercial and fantasmatic global networks for its continuation and survival.

Book History of California

Download or read book History of California written by Hubert Howe Bancroft and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: