The People's Sheriff
The People's Sheriff

Author: Harry F. Burroughs (III.)

Publisher:

Published: 2017-02-04

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9781540891495

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Since its establishment in 1759, Fauquier County has had 60 individuals appointed or elected Sheriff. This is the Chief Law Enforcement Official in the county. Chapter one of the book highlights several previous Sheriffs including John Quincy Marr who voted against Virginia's succession in April 1861 and ironically two months later became the first Confederate officer killed in the Civil War at the Battle of Fairfax Courthouse. In 2015, there was contested race between 12-year incumbent Charlie Ray Fox and first-time candidate Robert P. Mosier who had 30 years in domestic and international law enforcement. Among his experiences were as a Captain at the Fauquier County Sheriff's Office, as one of the 161 member elite International Police Task Force in Bosnia, as Chief Investigator for the International Justice Mission, a member of the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs in Iraq, and working for private security firms. The People's Sheriff is a comprehensive analysis of the arduous nine-month campaign to be elected Sheriff. From his announcement on President's Day 2015, dozens of community events, candidate forums, and door-to-door campaigning, Bob Mosier demonstrated why he had the right experiences, passion, temperament, and vision to be the 60th Sheriff of Fauquier County. He was elected on November 3, 2015. As a volunteer coordinator for the campaign, the author had unfettered access to the candidate who ran a virtually flawless campaign It is story worth telling and a compelling read for those interested in county government and local law enforcement.

The Last Sheriff in Texas
The Last Sheriff in Texas

Author: James P. McCollom

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2018-11-13

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1640091262

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An Amazon Best History Book of the Month This true crime story transports readers to a tumultuous time in Texas history—when the old ways clashed with the new—as it sheds light on police brutality, gun control, Mexican American civil rights, and much more “[A] riveting story of a time when sheriffs could get away with murder.” —Dallas Morning News Beeville, Texas, was the most American of small towns—the place that GIs had fantasized about while fighting through the ruins of Europe, a place of good schools, clean streets, and churches. Old West justice ruled, as evidenced by a 1947 shootout when outlaws surprised popular sheriff Vail Ennis at a gas station and shot him five times, point–blank, in the belly. Ennis managed to draw his gun and put three bullets in each assailant; he reloaded and shot them three times more. Time magazine’s full–page article on the shooting was seen by some as a referendum on law enforcement owing to the sheriff’s extreme violence, but supportive telegrams from across America poured into Beeville’s tiny post office. Yet when a second violent incident threw Ennis into the crosshairs of public opinion once again, the uprising was orchestrated by an unlikely figure: his close friend and Beeville’s favorite son, Johnny Barnhart. Barnhart confronted Ennis in the election of 1952: a landmark standoff between old Texas, with its culture of cowboy bravery and violence, and urban Texas, with its lawyers, oil institutions, and a growing Mexican population. The town would never be the same again. The Last Sheriff in Texas is a riveting narrative about the postwar American landscape, an era grappling with the same issues we continue to face today. Debate over excessive force in law enforcement, Anglo–Mexican relations, gun control, the influence of the media, urban–rural conflict, the power of the oil industry, mistrust of politicians and the political process—all have surprising historical precedence in the story of Vail Ennis and Johnny Barnhart.

American Sheriff
American Sheriff

Author: Mark Lamb

Publisher:

Published: 2020-11-19

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9781734805390

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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.

Everyone a Sheriff
Everyone a Sheriff

Author: Martin Alan Greenberg

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-10-19

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 1793642710

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In Everyone a Sheriff, the word "sheriff" serves as a metaphor for programs involving citizens in social control initiatives. Partnership between community members and their local police force is at the heart of any effective strategy aimed at reducing urban crime and insecurity. Ordinary community residents represent a vast, untapped resource in the fight against crime, disorder, and fear. The real story of citizens long association with the policing function is revealed. The book highlights include: an in-depth examination of volunteerism primarily at the law enforcement level; the importance of preparing youth and minorities for careers in policing and homeland security; the need for transitioning police and citizen volunteers from serving not only as peacekeepers, but becoming "peacemakers"; a realistic view of various pitfalls when regular and volunteer police are thrust into patterns of co-existence when fighting crime out on the street or seeking solutions to crime; numerous examples of current police-sponsored citizen academies, police cadet and junior deputy programs; histories of the invention of police and citizen-supported neighborhood crime watch programs. The only way to successfully cross the divide between the police and public is to give meaning to the phrase: "the police are the people, and the people are the police."

The Sheriff
The Sheriff

Author: Colin S. Gray

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2014-07-11

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0813147972

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Since the end of the Cold War, and especially since September 11, few issues have been more hotly debated than the United States' role in the world. In this hard-nosed but sophisticated examination, Colin S. Gray argues that America is the indispensable guardian of world order. Gray's constructive critique of recent trends in national security is holistic, rooting defense issues and prospective answers both in U.S. national security policy, broadly defined, and in the emerging international security environment. Colin S. Gray is professor of international politics and strategic studies at the University of Reading, England, and senior fellow at the National Institute for Public Policy in Fairfax, Virginia. He is the author of seventeen books, including Modern Strategy and Strategy for Chaos: Revolutions in Military Affairs and the Evidence of History.

A Sheriff for All the People
A Sheriff for All the People

Author: John Henry Reese

Publisher:

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780385110112

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Having worked his way up from cowhand to sheriff, Rodgerson Downey decides that capturing a notorious outlaw would be just the thing to insure his election as lieutenant governor. In the process, he hopes to rid himself of a handsome young boarder, a rival for his wife's affections, whom he suspects of being the outlaw he is after.

She Was Sheriff
She Was Sheriff

Author: Melody Groves

Publisher: Speaking Volumes

Published:

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1645402886

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Winner, 2017 NM/AZ Book Awards "All She Wanted Was a Gold Band—What She Got Was a Tin Star" For as long as she could remember, Maud Overstreet figured she’d grow up, get married, have a house with a white picket fence and a brood of kids. Now, in 1872, she’s tired of being the bank president’s spinster daughter and equally tired of washing, ironing and cleaning. When, out of the blue, Dry Creek’s town council offers her the job of replacement sheriff, she accepts. And her sheltered world explodes. For the first time, Maud enters a saloon, tastes whiskey, learns to shoot, learns to ride a horse and drive a stagecoach, arrests people, and leads men in search parties. Yet she still has time to dream about her long-errant boyfriend, Elijah J. Goodman, off—somewhere—for the past few years. She is convinced they will marry when he returns and hopes it will be soon. But the discovery of gold brings all sorts of unsavory characters to her town, including the threat of the notorious James Mooney Gang. There are rumors of an impending bank robbery. Maud enlists the help of Mayor Seth Critoli, but it’s up to her to save Dry Creek from disaster. "A light-hearted look at a woman who gets a job nobody else wants and makes it her own. Maud is a spunky, likeable heroine who comes into her own . . . as the town's protector of law and order." —Anne Hillerman, NY Times Bestselling Author "A well-written thoroughly entertaining romp through the Gold Rush country with a reluctant officer of the law who discovers an aptitude for a job most thought only a man could do." —Chris Enss, NY Times Bestselling Author Other Details