Every Officer is a Leader

Every Officer is a Leader

Author: Terry Anderson

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1999-09-28

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 9781574441185

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Every Officer is a Leader: Transforming Leadership in Police, Justice, and Public Safety, authored by leadership expert Terry Anderson and several well known leaders in the law enforcement and criminal justice profession, responds to the need for a comprehensive leadership development model for the education and training of police, justice and public safety supervisors, managers and front line officers. He examines how leadership development has a profound impact on the morale and performance of individual officers, teams, and organizations, illustrating in depth and detail how police and other justice and public safety leaders (in corrections, fire, customs, immigration, security, courts, etc.) can implement the Transforming Leadership process, skills, and principles. The recent focus (during the past 10 years) on community policing initiatives has made competency based leadership skills training essential for front line officers. The author's innovative contribution is a focus on the necessity to build "a leadership organization" before - and to an extent, while - you move ahead into building a "learning organization" that is responsive to community and internal organizational needs. The personal, team, and organization development skills discussed in this book are necessary pre-requisites to successful implementation of any neighborhood or community policing initiatives. Every Officer is a Leader: Transforming Leadership in Police, Justice, and Public Safety provides a model for integrating other models into a holistic leadership development framework. It furnishes a map for developing critical leadership skills with self-assessment, includes the developmental aspects of leadership expert Terry Anderson's previous book on Transforming Leadership, and applies them to law enforcement and criminal justice. Anderson and his contributing authors add clarity, perspective, and examples to show how individual leaders can develop themselves, and one another, into high-performance team leaders and officers who motivate others to respond to issues that affect the morale, health, and safety of the communities in which they serve. This new focus adds a perspective on security issues that affect police, justice and public safety organizations.


The War on Cops

The War on Cops

Author: Heather Mac Donald

Publisher: Encounter Books

Published: 2016-06-21

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1594038767

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Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in the largest 50 cities, the biggest one-year increase since 1993. The reason is what Heather Mac Donald first identified nationally as the “Ferguson effect”: Since the 2014 police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, officers have been backing off of proactive policing, and criminals are becoming emboldened. This book expands on Mac Donald’s groundbreaking and controversial reporting on the Ferguson effect and the criminal-justice system. It deconstructs the central narrative of the Black Lives Matter movement: that racist cops are the greatest threat to young black males. On the contrary, it is criminals and gangbangers who are responsible for the high black homicide death rate. The War on Cops exposes the truth about officer use of force and explodes the conceit of “mass incarceration.” A rigorous analysis of data shows that crime, not race, drives police actions and prison rates. The growth of proactive policing in the 1990s, along with lengthened sentences for violent crime, saved thousands of minority lives. In fact, Mac Donald argues, no government agency is more dedicated to the proposition that “black lives matter” than today’s data-driven, accountable police department. Mac Donald gives voice to the many residents of high-crime neighborhoods who want proactive policing. She warns that race-based attacks on the criminal-justice system, from the White House on down, are eroding the authority of law and putting lives at risk. This book is a call for a more honest and informed debate about policing, crime, and race.


The Island

The Island

Author: Matt Hisle

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2013-01-29

Total Pages: 63

ISBN-13: 1479774855

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An island is cursed by a person who knows black magic then three years later, people start hearing about it and they want to know what really happen on the island. So a Captain and a Sheriff get on a ship and set out on an adventure to find out what happen on the island years ago. As they do they run into many different obstacles, including finding the person who did this, dealing with the weird things that happen on the island and one of them reunites with an their past. These are just a few of the things that happen on The Island.


Rise of the Warrior Cop

Rise of the Warrior Cop

Author: Radley Balko

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Published: 2021-06-01

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 1541700287

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This groundbreaking history of how American police forces have been militarized is now revised and updated. Newly added material brings the story through 2020, including analysis of the Ferguson protests, the Obama and Trump administrations, and the George Floyd protests. The last days of colonialism taught America’s revolutionaries that soldiers in the streets bring conflict and tyranny. As a result, our country has generally worked to keep the military out of law enforcement. But over the last two centuries, America’s cops have increasingly come to resemble ground troops. The consequences have been dire: the home is no longer a place of sanctuary, the Fourth Amendment has been gutted, and police today have been conditioned to see the citizens they serve as enemies. In Rise of the Warrior Cop, Balko shows how politicians’ ill-considered policies and relentless declarations of war against vague enemies like crime, drugs, and terror have blurred the distinction between cop and soldier. His fascinating, frightening narrative that spans from America’s earliest days through today shows how a creeping battlefield mentality has isolated and alienated American police officers and put them on a collision course with the values of a free society.


The Sheriff's Sweetheart

The Sheriff's Sweetheart

Author: Laurie Kingery

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2011-04-01

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1426889852

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He needs to turn his life around… And Simpson Creek, Texas, is the perfect place to do it. On the run from his dangerous past, Sam Bishop is happy to find a town seeking "marriage-minded bachelors." A wealthy wife is just what he needs to make his gambling problems disappear. But when Prissy Gilmore catches Sam's eye, she proves to be much more than a rich match. Sam wants to deserve her, wants to become sheriff and protect her hometown—wants to be the man she believes him to be. Yet the true test is waiting, when his past returns to challenge his future.


Brothers3

Brothers3

Author: Scott Reiners

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2020-11-06

Total Pages: 630

ISBN-13: 1640821872

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Sam Kelly and his wife are just living their dreams of running their own veterinary hospital. In a quick turn of events, they fall into the crosshairs of a corrupt sheriff and a violent underground government army. Sam and his brothers go on the defense, confronting these heinous legions head-on. As the battles of survival continue, Sam and his brothers are able to recruit some family friends along with retired military personnel. Sam and his small army soon become known as the Brothers


American Sheriff

American Sheriff

Author: Mark Lamb

Publisher:

Published: 2020-11-19

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9781734805390

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Are you concerned about the direction America is headed? Who is out there in the trenches fighting for our freedom and holding fast to the Constitution on our behalf? Our County Sheriffs are the last bastion of freedom against government overreach on a local and federal level. In American Sheriff: Traditional Values in a Modern World you will learn about one of those freedom fighters, Sheriff Mark Lamb, and how living overseas as a youth and ability to "Fear Not; Do Right" have shaped his ideals and convictions to love America. As the descendant of Pilgrims, he has been forged by hardships, wins, and losses to rise above the challenges and lead from the front, in Law Enforcement and in Politics. Read about the core values that has shaped Sheriff Lamb into the person he is and is becoming including: *Faith *Family *Love of Country *Courage *Perseverance Sheriff Lamb uses a unique business and marketing approach to politics, and empowering leadership style. You will be inspired by his patriotism, failures, wins, and hard work as you follow along with the stories of one of the most well known American Sheriffs of our times.


The Adventures of Duck Poo Island

The Adventures of Duck Poo Island

Author: Jizammie J. Griggs

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2015-11-24

Total Pages: 79

ISBN-13: 1682131939

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The Adventures of Duck Poo Island is simply a story about two best friends who vowed to stay friends despite the odds and the promises to divide them. Friendship is a precious gift and loyalty is an obligation. Adam and Andy firmly believe in courage and accountability. They believe in standing up for justice and owning up to their own mistakes. Adam and Andy are wise beyond their years. We all could take a page out of their book. (No pun intended.)