Patrolling the Heart of the West
Patrolling the Heart of the West

Author: Steve Raabe

Publisher:

Published: 2018-06-15

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9780999707524

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For decades, Trooper Steve Raabe patrolled some of the most desolate and dangerous highways in America. Alone in the remote Nevada desert, miles from any backup, Raabe was forced to contend with murderers, thieves, perverts, dope peddlers, and the occasional runaway train.While often tragic and terrifying, Raabe¿s true tales also abound with his signature wit and playful good cheer. Policing can be a deadly serious business, but for Raabe it also entailed buying a prisoner an ice cream cone on a hot summer day, or laughing along with some good old boys before booking them into jail as you¿ll discover in Patrolling the Heart of the West.In our contentious and politicized era, when police officers are too often portrayed as either infallible superheroes or oppressive henchmen, Raabe¿s charming collection reminds us that cops are mostly just ordinary men and women who've chosen an extraordinary career.

Trooper
Trooper

Author: Robert S. Prout

Publisher: Jetlaunch

Published: 2015-03-23

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9781941142738

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Read about State Trooper Bill Brand: the twenty-year-old college boy who quickly became a man. Read about Professor Victoria Whitcombe, the woman who tired of docile professors and lusted for a man with command presence. Read about Mandy, the college girl who learned about life the hard way. Read about Loretta, the country girl and mother who set too high a standard for her man. Read about why it takes a different breed of man to be a state trooper.

Vice
Vice

Author: John R. Baker

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2011-01-18

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1429989777

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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.

I Hate Campaign Hats
I Hate Campaign Hats

Author: Randall Stevens

Publisher:

Published: 2021-02-25

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13:

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Randall Stevens in 1966 was a wide-eyed, naive boy still a year away from being able to claim adulthood at that magic age of twenty-one. Having come up with the idea to join one of the best state police organizations in the nation, he began the journey to become a Massachusetts State Police Trooper.If anyone assumes this to be the telling of a strict, tedious, dull, or uninteresting police employment process, they would be very wrong. The determination, ingenuity, silliness, and near lunacy mixed with glimpses of courage and boldness, not expected from a boy so young, lends itself to a show all its own, which continues as you turn the pages.These narratives will strike all your emotions. You will laugh and feel good. You'll feel sad and maybe cry. There's vindication, fear, and trepidation. You'll peer deep into an officer's marriage and personal life. Most importantly, you'll see a different side of police, not often revealed, and meet different characters, good and bad, who all played a part molding the boy into a man.

Lethal Force
Lethal Force

Author: Tony Long

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2016-07-07

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1473529867

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Tony Long was the best ‘shot’ the Met ever had. Under the codename ‘Echo 7’, he was ‘licenced to kill’ bringing down scores of targets, sometimes with deadly force. In 1985 he opened fire on a suspect to save a four-year-old girl whose mother had been stabbed to death by her assailant. Two years later he was involved in another high profile shooting while confronting three armed criminals. On both occasions Tony was commended by the Metropolitan Police Commissioner. But in the spring of 2005, coming face to face with suspected drug dealer and armed robber Azelle Rodney, a volley of point blank shots would bring his career crashing to an end, tarnish his reputation and leave him fighting a murder charge and possible life sentence. From life or death cases and botched operations to political fallouts, this book charts the controversial career from rookie seventies beat cop to Long's command of SO19 – the Met’s most elite specialist firearms unit. Long’s personal testimony and professional insight raises serious issues about the duties, pressures and responsibilities that fall on the shoulders of those we task to risk their lives, and take the lives of others, in our name.

Patrolling the Border
Patrolling the Border

Author: Joshua S. Haynes

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2018-05-01

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 0820353175

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Patrolling the Border focuses on a late eighteenth-century conflict between Creek Indians and Georgians. The conflict was marked by years of seemingly random theft and violence culminating in open war along the Oconee River, the contested border between the two peoples. Joshua S. Haynes argues that the period should be viewed as the struggle of nonstate indigenous people to develop an effective method of resisting colonization. Using database and digital mapping applications, Haynes identifies one such method of resistance: a pattern of Creek raiding best described as politically motivated border patrols. Drawing on precontact ideas and two hundred years of political innovation, border patrols harnessed a popular spirit of unity to defend Creek country. These actions, however, sharpened divisions over political leadership both in Creek country and in the infant United States. In both polities, people struggled over whether local or central governments would call the shots. As a state-like institution, border patrols are the key to understanding seemingly random violence and its long-term political implications, which would include, ultimately, Indian removal.

Patrolling Baghdad
Patrolling Baghdad

Author: Mark R. DePue

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13:

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Captures the experiences of an Illinois National Guard unit in the city of Baghdad, where it worked with other MP units to restore order to the chaotic streets, while simultaneously helping to rebuild Iraqi police forces and act as "boots-on-the-ground diplomats" in the inevitable clash of cultures.

Never Without Heroes
Never Without Heroes

Author: Lawrence C. Vetter, Jr.

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2011-02-02

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0307784215

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FOUR CONGRESSIONAL MEDALS OF HONOR, THIRTEEN NAVAL CROSSES, SEVENTY-TWO SILVER STARS . . . In four and a half years in Vietnam, the Marines of the Third Reconnaissance Battalion repeatedly penetrated North Vietnamese and Vietcong sanctuaries by foot and by helicopter to find enemy forces, learn the enemy's intentions, and, when possible, bring deadly fire down on his head. Heavily armed, well-camouflaged teams of six and eight men daily exposed themselves to overwhelming enemy forces so that other Marines would have the information necessary to fight the war. It's all here: grueling, tense, and deadly recon patrols; insertions directly into NVA basecamps; last-stand defenses in the wreckage of downed helicopters; pursuit by superior North Vietnamese forces; agonizing deaths of men who valiantly put their lives on the line. NEVER WITHOUT HEROES is the first book to recount the story of a Marine reconnaissance battalion in Vietnam from the day of its arrival to its withdrawal. In Vietnam, Larry Vetter served as a platoon leader in Third Recon Battalion. He supplements his own recollections with Marine Corps records, exhaustive interviews with veterans, and correspondence to capture the bravery, and self-sacrifice of war.

Gilded Serpent
Gilded Serpent

Author: Danielle L. Jensen

Publisher: Tor Teen

Published: 2021-04-27

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 1250317789

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From bestselling author Danielle L. Jensen comes a thrilling new novel in the Dark Shores world, a series that Sarah J. Maas called "everything I look for in a fantasy novel." THEIR BATTLES ENDED IN VICTORY Lydia returns to Mudaire to enter training at the healing temple. But instead of fighting to save lives, she’s convinced she is doing more harm than good. She delves into the history of the gods only to discover a truth that will change her life forever. His birthright as commander of the Royal Army is finally in his grasp, but Killian feels anything but victorious. Burdened by his past, he embraces the darker side of his mark—and in doing so, risks starting a war. BUT THE WAR HAS ONLY JUST BEGUN Having defeated the tyrant Urcon, Marcus struggles to form a lasting alliance with the Arinoquians. But he is plagued by the knowledge that there is a traitor among his friends, and it could cost him everything that he’s fought for. Torn between her growing allegiance to the Thirty-Seventh legion and her need to liberate her people, Teriana finds herself mired in a web of secrets. She embarks upon a path that will either save everyone she loves—or put them all in their graves. Readers may read either Dark Shores or Dark Skies first! Suggested series reading order: 1. Dark Skies or Dark Shores 2. Dark Shores or Dark Skies 3. Gilded Serpent At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.