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Author: Peter Moskos Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400832268 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 274
Book Description
When Harvard-trained sociologist Peter Moskos left the classroom to become a cop in Baltimore's Eastern District, he was thrust deep into police culture and the ways of the street--the nerve-rattling patrols, the thriving drug corners, and a world of poverty and violence that outsiders never see. In Cop in the Hood, Moskos reveals the truths he learned on the midnight shift. Through Moskos's eyes, we see police academy graduates unprepared for the realities of the street, success measured by number of arrests, and the ultimate failure of the war on drugs. In addition to telling an explosive insider's story of what it is really like to be a police officer, he makes a passionate argument for drug legalization as the only realistic way to end drug violence--and let cops once again protect and serve. In a new afterword, Moskos describes the many benefits of foot patrol--or, as he calls it, "policing green."
Author: Peter Moskos Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400832268 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 274
Book Description
When Harvard-trained sociologist Peter Moskos left the classroom to become a cop in Baltimore's Eastern District, he was thrust deep into police culture and the ways of the street--the nerve-rattling patrols, the thriving drug corners, and a world of poverty and violence that outsiders never see. In Cop in the Hood, Moskos reveals the truths he learned on the midnight shift. Through Moskos's eyes, we see police academy graduates unprepared for the realities of the street, success measured by number of arrests, and the ultimate failure of the war on drugs. In addition to telling an explosive insider's story of what it is really like to be a police officer, he makes a passionate argument for drug legalization as the only realistic way to end drug violence--and let cops once again protect and serve. In a new afterword, Moskos describes the many benefits of foot patrol--or, as he calls it, "policing green."
Author: Bruce Henderson Publisher: Rosetta Books ISBN: 079535214X Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 161
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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
Author: Don Geidel Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781475028300 Category : Languages : en Pages : 254
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Life as a rookie cop in the ghetto is hard. It's even harder if you're Ben Olsen. A straight arrow Wisconsin farm boy and Iraq war veteran; for Ben, fighting crime is the easy part. Battling bad cops, PTSD, and a mysterious stalker could prove deadly. A drunken stranger with unusual mental abilities throws a monkey wrench into Ben's already complicated life. Ghetto Cop: Rookie Year is a gritty police procedural and fascinating mystery thriller. Danger, mystery, and a hint of the paranormal combine with an abundance of intense police scenes to compel the reader to keep turning pages. Who is behind the series of frame-ups jeopardizing Ben's budding police career? As the gripping thriller builds to its shockingly unexpected climax, Ben and the woman of his dreams must fight for their very lives. Fans of Joseph Wambaugh and Dean Koontz will love this story.
Author: Katarzyna Person Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501754092 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 249
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In Warsaw Ghetto Police, Katarzyna Person shines a spotlight on the lawyers, engineers, young yeshiva graduates, and sons of connected businessmen who, in the autumn of 1940, joined the newly formed Jewish Order Service. Person tracks the everyday life of policemen as their involvement with the horrors of ghetto life gradually increased. Facing and engaging with brutality, corruption, and the degradation and humiliation of their own people, these policemen found it virtually impossible to exercise individual agency. While some saw the Jewish police as fellow victims, others viewed them as a more dangerous threat than the German occupation authorities; both were held responsible for the destruction of a historically important and thriving community. Person emphasizes the complexity of the situation, the policemen's place in the network of social life in the ghetto, and the difficulty behind the choices that they made. By placing the actions of the Jewish Order Service in historical context, she explores both the decisions that its members were forced to make and the consequences of those actions. Featuring testimonies of members of the Jewish Order Service, and of others who could see them as they themselves could not, Warsaw Ghetto Police brings these impossible situations to life. It also demonstrates how a community chooses to remember those whose allegiances did not seem clear. Published in Association with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Author: Corey Pegues Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1501110497 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 320
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A "former cop sets the record straight in this ... memoir about his youth selling crack in the '80s with one of NYC's toughest gangs and later rise through the ranks of the NYPD to become a community leader"--
Author: D. W. Rawlings Publisher: ISBN: 9781633932524 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 328
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Peckerwood in the Hood is the brutally honest tale of an average white cop's gut-wrenching journey through Heaven and Hell as he tries to police a largely minority inner city. Police and military families will gain valuable insight to help them cope when their heroes come home.
Author: Jill Leovy Publisher: One World/Ballantine ISBN: 0385529988 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 386
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"Discusses the hundreds of murders that occur in Los Angeles each year, and focuses on the story of the dedicated group of detectives who pursued justice at any cost in the killing of Bryant Tennelle"--Publisher's description.
Author: Peter Moskos Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) ISBN: 0465021484 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 194
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Presents philosophical and practical arguments in favor of the administration of judicial corporal punishment as a way of addressing problems in the American criminal justice system.
Author: Calel Perechodnik Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429720874 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 348
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In this moving memoir, a young Polish Jew chronicles his life under the Nazis. In the vain hope of protecting himself and his family, Calel Perechodnik made the wrenching decision to become a ghetto policeman in a small town near Warsaw. The true tragedy of his choice becomes clear when during the Aktion he must witness his own wife and child forced to board a train to the Treblinka extermination camp. Filled with loathing for the Germans, the Poles, his Jewish brethren, and himself, Perechodnik fled the ghetto to shelter with a Polish woman in Warsaw. In the course of 105 terror-filled days in hiding, he poured out his poignant story. Written while Nazi boots pounded the streets of the neighborhood and while his tortured memory was painfully fresh, this memoir has a rare immediacy and raw power. Shortly before his death in 1944, he entrusted the precious diary to a Polish friend. The document was eventually deposited in the Yad Vashem Archives in Jerusalem. Left nearly forgotten for half a century, it was finally published in Poland in 1993. We owe a great debt to historian Frank Fox for bringing us this sensitive translation, which reminds us anew of the power and truth of historical memory.
Author: John Cooper Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595170358 Category : African American police Languages : en Pages : 174
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The Black Ghettos are no descendents. They are political statements forced upon the minorities by the majority. The ghettos are to house throwaway people and keep them out of the mainstream. In this the guard, the police are not there to catch wrong doers, but rather they are there in the ghetto to help maintain the status quo and social order.
Author: Peter Moskos
Author: Peter Moskos
Author: Bruce Henderson
Author: Don Geidel
Author: Katarzyna Person
Author: Corey Pegues
Author: D. W. Rawlings
Author: Jill Leovy
Author: Peter Moskos
Author: Calel Perechodnik
Author: John Cooper