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[Police Officer's Handbook] Police Officer's Handbook: An Introductory Guide

By Robert S. Stering

The author developed a training system for Massachusetts, this book is based on that system and gives an introduction to patrol procedures and emphasizes dealing with the public.
Inspect/Order Police Officer's Handbook


[Police Civil Liability] Critical Issues in Police Civil Liability, Third Edition

By Victor E. Kappeler

There is a ...... trend toward suing law enforcement officials ......
Inspect/Order Critical Issues in Police Civil Liability, Third Edition


[Police Civil Liability] Police Civil Liability: Supreme Court Cases and Materials

By Victor E. Kappeler

Hands-on access to precedent-setting Supreme Court cases relevant to law enforcement.
Inspect/Order Police Civil Liability: Supreme Court Cases and Materials


[Legal Guide for Police] Legal Guide for Police: Constitutional Issues

By John C. Klotter


Inspect/Order Legal Guide for Police: Constitutional Issues


[Character and Cops] Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing

By Edwin J. Delattre

Published March 2002. A reviewer says: Police forces throughout the world are at risk of having certain problems. There is always some pressure for police to accept bribes. Police can also slide into habits of using excess force and some times other problems can occur such as simple laziness. One of the problems for any police command is thus to ensure that these problems are eliminated.
Inspect/Order Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing


[detecting lies] The Truth About Lying: How to Spot a Lie and Protect Yourself from Deception

By Stan B. Walters


Inspect/Order The Truth About Lying


[detecting lies] Principles of Kinesic Interview and Interrogation (CRC Series in Practical Aspects of Criminal and Forensic Investigations)

By Stan B. Walters

A well written and well researched look into the physical and psychological traits of a liar.
Inspect/Order Principles of Kinesic Interview and Interrogation


[detecting lies] Detecting Lies and Deceit: The Psychology of Lying and Implications for Professional Practice

By Aldert Vrij

Excellent survey of psychological literature on deception.
Inspect/Order Detecting Lies and Deceit


[detecting lies] The Art of Investigative Interviewing: A Human Approach to Testimonial Evidence

By Charles L. Yeschke

The most complete reference available to cover the psychological or 'human need' aspect of interviewing Offers a guide to 'affective' interviewing rather than the outdated and often illegal coercive tactics of the past.
Inspect/Order The Art of Investigative Interviewing


[Criminal Investigation] Henry Lee's Crime Scene Handbook

By Henry C. Lee

Henry Lee's Crime Scene Handbook outlines proven methods to help you collect and process physical evidence correctly, analyze it thoroughly, and understand its relevance to the case involved.
Henry Lee has consulted on thousands of criminal cases around the world and is highly sought after to help solve difficult cases.
Inspect/Order Henry Lee's Crime Scene Handbook


[Criminal Investigation] Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner

By Michael M. Baden


Inspect/Order Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner


[Criminal Investigation] Maggots, Murder, and Men: Memories and Reflections of a Forensic Entomologist

By Zakaria Erzinclioglu


Inspect/Order Maggots, Murder, and Men: Memories and Reflections of a Forensic Entomologist


[Criminal Investigation] Dead Reckoning: The New Science of Catching Killers

By Michael M. Baden

The host of the popular HBO program Autopsy parts the curtains on the macabre world of the morgue.
Inspect/Order Dead Reckoning: The New Science of Catching Killers


[Criminal Investigation] Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death

By Jessica Snyder Sachs


Inspect/Order Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death


[Criminal Investigation] Cracking Cases: The Science of Solving Crimes

By Henry C. Lee

Lee exposes the methodologies of crafty killers an air conditioner cranked up to disguise a victim's time of death, a shooting concealed as self inflicted, a corpus delecti...
Inspect/Order Cracking Cases: The Science of Solving Crimes


[Fingerprint Technology] Advances in Fingerprint Technology, Second Edition

By Henry C. Lee

Fingerprints constitute one of the most important categories of physical evidence, and it is among the few that can be truly individualized. During the last two decades, many new and exciting developments have taken place in the field of fingerprint science...
Inspect/Order Advances in Fingerprint Technology


[Criminal Investigation] Bloodstain Pattern Analysis: With an Introduction to Crime Scene Reconstruction, Second Edition

By Tom Bevel

A fascinating "how to".
Inspect/Order Bloodstain Pattern Analysis


[Cops Under Fire] Cops Under Fire

By Larry McShane

The odds are that the overwhelming majority of America's police officers will never be forced to use their weapons in the line of duty. But when it happens, it often destroys the lives of these officers--and those around them.
Inspect/Order Cops Under Fire


[Proactive Police Management] Proactive Police Management

By Edward A. Thibault

Provides a review, analysis, and synthesis of the various approaches to police management, including traditional scientific management, the behavioral/systems approach, and the human relations approach. Covers police subculture, basic organizational concepts, operating principles, proactive police leadership, managing the police organization, and collective bargaining. Includes questions, class projects, and key terms for each chapter. This third edition includes updated material on information management and career criminals.
Inspect/Order Proactive Police Management


[Proactive Police Management] 23rd Precinct: The Job

By Arlene Schulman

Pub Aug 2001. From 1995 through 1997, Schulman rode along, walked with, and interviewed the men and women cops of one of the most diverse, impoverished, and crime-ridden beats in New York City, the Twenty-third Precinct. Her participatory observation (she was with the cops in the station house, at roll call, in patrol cars, and in the projects) results in a trenchant, gripping take on what both poverty and policing do to people. Schulman gives us cops' outlooks on police brutality, corruption, alcoholism,..
Inspect/Order Twenty-third Precinct The Job


[police book] I Love a Cop

By Ellen Kirschman


Inspect/Order I Love a Cop


[Cops Don't Cry] Cops Don't Cry: a book of help and hope for police families

By Vali Stone


Inspect/Order Cops Don't Cry


[Swat Teams] Swat Teams: Explosive Face-Offs With America's Deadliest Criminals

By Robert L. Snow


Inspect/Order Swat Teams


[police book] Raids: A Tactical Guide to High Risk Warrant Service

By Mark V. Lonsdale


Inspect/Order Raids


[police book] Sound Doctrine: A Tactical Primer.

By Sid Heal


Inspect/Order Sound Doctrine


[Force Under Pressure] Force Under Pressure: How Cops Live and Why They Die.

By Lawrence Blum

Lawrence Blum describes the sources of danger, injuries, and victory to police officers in a down-to-earth style.
Inspect/Order Force Under Pressure


[Are Cops Racist Mac Donald] Are Cops Racist?

By Heather Mac Donald

Police have been wrongfully attacked by the media as being racist. As a consequence, police are less effective in 'minority' areas for fear of being called racist. Ms Mac Donald shows how the New York Times lied.
Inspect/Order Are Cops Racist?


[Danger, Duty & Disillusion] Danger, Duty & Disillusion: The Worldview of Los Angeles Police Officers

By Joan C. Barker

An insider view of an urban subculture! While much of the literature on police analyzes critically what they do, few works address issues of how police officers feel about their chosen profession.
Inspect/Order Danger, Duty & Disillusion


[Breaking and Entering] Breaking and Entering: Women Cops Break the Code of Silence to Tell Their Stories from the Inside

By Connie Fletcher

Women police officers reveal how the presence of women in law enforcement is changing the face of the American criminal justice system and describe their challenges.
Inspect/Order Breaking and Entering


[police book] Deadly Force Encounters

By Alexis, Dr. Artwohl

What C0PS Need to Know to Mentally and Physically Prepare for and Survive a Gunfight
Inspect/Order Deadly Force Encounters


[Copshock] Copshock: Surviving Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

By Allen R. Kates

"We didn't ask for PTSD, as veterans, police, or victims of any traumatic experience, but we can ask for a copy of this book for better understanding." Rod 'Doc' Kane, combat veteran, author of Veteran's Day.
Inspect/Order Copshock


[Managing Police Stress] Managing Police Stress

By Wayne D. Ford Ph.D.


Inspect/Order Managing Police Stress


[Computer Crime]
Digital Evidence and Computer Crime

By Eoghan Casey


Inspect/Order Digital Evidence and Computer Crime


[Computer Crime book] Incident Response: Investigating Computer Crime

By Chris Prosise


Inspect/Order Incident Response: Investigating Computer Crime


[Forensic police book] Forensic Computing: A Practitioner's Guide

By Tony Sammes


Inspect/Order Forensic Computing: A Practitioner's Guide


[police book] Cyber Forensics: A Field Manual for Collecting, Examining, and Preserving Evidence of Computer Crimes

By Albert J. Marcella


Inspect/Order Cyber Forensics


[Computer Crime Investigation book] Handbook of Computer Crime Investigation: Forensic Tools & Technology

By Eoghan Casey


Inspect/Order Handbook of Computer Crime Investigation


[Crime Investigation] Computer Forensics

By Warren G. Kruse II


Inspect/Order Computer Forensics


[Crime Investigation] High Technology Crime Investigator's Handbook.

By Gerald L. Kovacich


Inspect/Order High Technology Crime Investigator's Handbook


[police book] Voices from the Streets: Young Former Gang Members Tell Their Stories

By S. Beth Atkin


Inspect/Order Voices from the Streets


[gangs] Peace in the Streets: Breaking the Cycle of Gang Violence

By Arturo Hernandez


Inspect/Order Peace in the Streets


[police book] Gangbangers: Understanding the Deadly Minds of Americas Street Gangs

By Loren W. Christensen


Inspect/Order Gangbangers


[police book] Gangs and Their Tattoos: Identifying Gangbangers on the Street and in Prison

By Bill Valentine


Inspect/Order Gangs and Their Tattoos


GANGS: A Guide to Understanding Street Gangs

By Al Valdez/FONT>

A very practical book on gangs.
Inspect/Order GANGS: A Guide to Understanding Street Gangs


My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King

By Reymundo Sanchez

He tells of his years of sex drugs booze violence.
Inspect/Order My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King


8 Ball Chicks: A Year in the Violent World of Girl Gangsters

By Gini Sikes

A journalist spent a year hanging out with girl gangs in Los Angeles and tells how some young women have become numb to brutality.
Inspect/Order 8 Ball Chicks: A Year in the Violent World of Girl Gangsters


[police book] Street Gang Awareness: A Resource Guide for Parents and Professionals

By Steven L. Sachs


Inspect/Order Street Gang Awareness


[Street Cop] Street Cop: Innovative Tactics for Taking Back the Streets

By Donovan Jacobs

Street Cop condenses years of street experience and presents the innovative, proactive tactics needed to actively identify, locate and arrest suspects.
Inspect/Order Street Cop: Innovative Tactics for Taking Back the Streets


[Police Field Operations] Police Field Operations

By Thomas Francis Adams


Inspect/Order Police Field Operations


[Evidence Collection] First Unit Responder: A Guide to Physical Evidence Collection for Patrol Officers

By Mark R. Hawthorne

A training manual for patrol officers and criminal investigators who conduct preliminary investigations of crime scenes.
Inspect/Order First Unit Responder: A Guide to Physical Evidence Collection for Patrol Officers


[solving burglaries] Burglary For The Patrol Officer

By Wesley Harris

To help clear more burglary cases.
Inspect/Order Burglary For The Patrol Officer


[Tactical Pistol Marksmanship] Tactical Pistol Marksmanship: How to Improve Your Combat Shooting Skills

By Gabe Suarez


Inspect/Order Tactical Pistol Marksmanship


[police book] Fear Less

By Gavin de Becker

Attitudes to have regarding terrorism. How to handle the generalized threat of terrorism. Some concrete suggestions. Published in January 2002. A new version of his book "The Gift of Fear", updated to include the terrorist events of 2001. Entire pages from the earlier book are included in this book, word for word.
Inspect/Order Fear Less


[police book] The Gift of Fear

By Gavin de Becker

How to use our natural feelings and intuitions to avoid dangerous individuals. More complete than the previous book. Gives a better understanding of the author's thoughts. Signals that violent individuals give before commiting acts of violence.
Inspect/Order The Gift of Fear


[Vehicle Stop] Advanced Vehicle Stop Tactics: Skills for Today's Survival

By Michael T. Rayburn, David M. Grossi

This book is about safety when you pull over a vehicle: how to stop your vehicle, protect against dangerous situations.
Inspect/Order Advanced Vehicle Stop Tactics II


[Deadly Force] Deadly Force: Constitutional Standards, Federal Policy Guidelines, and Officer Survival

By John M. Callahan

Legal aspects of the use of deadly force by an officer.
Inspect/Order Deadly Force


[Gravest Extreme] In the Gravest Extreme. Role of the Firearm

By Massad F. Ayoob

In this book, Ayoob advises the reader on the legal implications of firearms use in self-defense, and the whole subject of keeping, storing, carrying and using firearms.
Inspect/Order In the Gravest Extreme. Role of the Firearm


[Stressfire] Stressfire I (Gunfighting for Police)

By Massad F. Ayoob

This book teaches you the different techniques in performing under stress. If you're a competition shooter, this will definitely be of great help to your training.
Inspect/Order Stressfire I


[Self Protection] The Truth About Self Protection

By Massad F. Ayoob

Has crime touched your life and driven you think about self-defense issues for the first time? You don't know who to listen to or what to believe?
Inspect/Order The Truth About Self Protection


[police book] The Tactical Advantage

By Gabe Suarez


Inspect/Order The Tactical Advantage


[Police Field Manual] Law Enforcement Officers Field Manual

By Elliot B. Spector

Laws of the state of Connecticut regarding Motor Vehicle violations, Search & Seizure, Detention & Arrest, Interrogation, Juvenile Matters, Family Violence, Victims Services.
Inspect/Order Law Enforcement Officers Field Manual II


[Gunshot Wounds] Gunshot Wounds: Practical Aspects of Firearms, Ballistics, and Forensic Techniques

By Vincent J. M. Di Maio


Inspect/Order Gunshot Wounds


[Forensic Pathology] Forensic Pathology, Second Edition

By Vincent J. M. Di Maio


Inspect/Order Forensic Pathology, Second Edition


[Gun Laws] Gun Laws of America: Every Federal Gun Law on the Books: With Plain English Summaries

By Alan Korwin

Gun Laws of America contains every federal gun law for the first time ever-"proper" authorities, Militia, National Guard, global disarmament, free training ammo, your rights, government's limits, lost National Right to Carry;
Inspect/Order Gun Laws of America


[police book] The Tactical Rifle: The Precision Tool for Urban Police Operations

By Gabe Suarez


Inspect/Order The Tactical Rifle: The Precision Tool for Urban Police Operations


[Criminal Mind] Inside the Criminal Mind

By Stanton E. Samenow

Samenow describes how criminals view the world as a place that exists to serve them, and them alone. They dont dismiss rules or morality outright, only when it interferes with what they want.
Inspect/Order Inside the Criminal Mind


[Police Field Operations] Police Field Operations

By Thomas Francis Adams

For courses in police operations/management. This source book is replete with real-life scenarios from an officer's daily regimen. The book details how and why certain procedures are used and presents instructional techniques from leading police academies across the country.
Inspect/Order Police Field Operations


[Guns, Crime, and Freedom] Guns, Crime, and Freedom

By Wayne R. LaPierre

Wayne Lapierre does an excellent job of explaining the Second Amendment and exposing the myths of gun control advocates.
Inspect/Order Guns, Crime, and Freedom


[Criminal Justice] Criminal Justice

By Robert Bidinoltto

Bidinotto has put together one of the best one-stop resources on the criminal justice system. The book offers detailed criticism of our criminal justice system and sound fix-it proposals, endorsing the view that the criminal is *responsible* for his actions, and should be dealt with accordingly.
Inspect/Order Criminal Justice


[Criminal Justice] Criminal Justice in America: Theory, Practice and Policy

By Barry W. Hancock

Reference material for studying the justice system in America.
Inspect/Order Criminal Justice in America


[Criminal Justice] Criminal Justice: An Introduction

By Philip P. Purpura

An introductory text/disk, covering basics of the American criminal justice system.
Inspect/Order Criminal Justice: An Introduction


[Use of Force] Use of Force: Current Practice and Policy

By Craig Hemmens

Available used. Currently on "backorder".
Inspect/Order Use of Force: Current Practice and Policy


[Armed and Considered Dangerous] Armed and Considered Dangerous: A Survey of Felons and Their Firearms (Social Institutions and Social Change)

By James D. Wright

Interviewing felony prisoners in ten state correctional systems in 1981, Wright and Rossi found extensive information suggesting that gun control laws have relatively little effect on violent criminals. For example, only 12% of criminals, and only 7% of the criminals specializing in handgun crime, had acquired their last crime handgun at a gun store. Of those, about a quarter had stolen the gun from a store; a large number of the rest, Wright and Rossi suggested, had probably procured the gun through a legal surrogate buyer, such as a girlfriend with a clean record. Fifty-six percent of the prisoners said that a criminal would not attack a potential victim who was known to be armed.
Inspect/Order Armed and Considered Dangerous


[NYPD] In the Line of Duty: A Tribute to New York's Finest and Bravest

Through over 100 pages of black and white photographs (and 16 pages of full color), this memorial volume documents the heroism of New York's Finest and Bravest in the hours and days following the disaster.
Inspect/Order In the Line of Duty


[NYPD] Brotherhood

By Frank McCourt

Images of the heros of New York.
Inspect/Order Brotherhood


[NYPD] NYPD (American Icon Close-Up Guides)

By Andrew Cocker

New York City has a colorful and fascinating history in which the New York Police Department has played a prominent role. The NYPD is known and recognized the world over--more often for its fictional exploits than reality. From the earliest days, through highs and lows, to today the story of the NYPD is vividly told in words and pictures.
Inspect/Order NYPD (American Icon Close-Up Guides)


[NYPD] NYPD: A City and Its Police

By James Lardner

NYPD is great storytelling and a great read of the history of the how the NYPD evolved from 1830 to the present.
Inspect/Order NYPD: A City and Its Police


[police cars] Police Cars: A Photographic History

By Monty McCord

Good Compilation of Historic Photos.
Inspect/Order Police Cars: A Photographic History


[police cars] Cars of the State Police and Highway Patrol

By James Lardner

Great police car reference book.
Inspect/Order Cars of the State Police and Highway Patrol


[U.S. Marshal] Neither Fear Nor Favor

By Wesley Harris

The true story of a turn of the century U.S. Marshal.
Inspect/Order Neither Fear Nor Favor


[U.S. Marshal] Miranda V. Arizona: Rights of the Accused (Landmark Supreme Court Cases)

By Gail Blasser Riley

Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, it details the genesis of each case, related Supreme Court decisions, and the arguments presented by the lawyers for each side.
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[Semi-Automatic Pistol Police] The Semi-Automatic Pistol In Police Service And Self Defense

By Massad Ayoob

A nationally recognized firearms expert who has served as a police officer for more than 20 years shoots down many of the myths about autoloaders which so many people trust their life to. Learn the advantages of the semi-automatic pistol, as well as its weaknesses.
Inspect/Order The Semi-Automatic Pistol In Police Service And Self Defense



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