A Cop's Group Bet

A Cop's Group Bet
Author: Katharine O'Neill
Publisher: Katharine O'Neill
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2021-03-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Myra has done a lot of undercover work in her time as a cop. But she's not done something like this. After a prominent prosecutor is found murdered, Myra discovers that the woman was into orgies. The last place she was seen was at a club known for multiple partner sex, and they're not about to talk to the cops about their clients. The moment Jordan hears that they have to go undercover into a sex club, he immediately offers to be Myra's lover. A status he has wanted for a long time. With their fellow detectives, Carlos and Chris, as Myra's other lovers, they head into a world Jordan has never experienced. This has to be convincing, and Jordan has to learn to share Myra with his friends. As long as he's in charge, he can do that. But can the control freak Myra let go?

The Truant Murders

The Truant Murders
Author: Julio Vazquez
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2007-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1411673530

Teens are dying in pairs in a neighborhood of New York City and the only link apparent to Lieutenant Tim O'Shaughnessy is that the kids were couples.Due to mature themes, parental guidance is recommended for anyone under the age of 17. (Hardcover edition)

Rise of the Warrior Cop

Rise of the Warrior Cop
Author: Radley Balko
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2021-06-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1541700287

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 Final Bet

The Final Bet
Author: ʻAbd al-Ilāh Ḥamdūshī
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2016
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9774167791

Young, handsome Othman found his ticket out of a life of desperate poverty in the slums of Casablanca when he married Sofia. Sophisticated, French, rich, and forty years his senior. But when she is brutally murdered in their bedroom one night, the police quickly zero in on Othman as the prime suspect. Set to inherit everything and with his mistress, the love of his life, waiting in the wings he certainly has motive. But is he guilty? Or is he an innocent man, framed by circumstance and an overzealous corrupt police force?

The Final Bet

The Final Bet
Author: Abdelilah Hamdouchi
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2016-09-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1617977497

When young and handsome Othman married Sofia—sophisticated, French, rich, and forty years his senior—he found his ticket out of a life of desperate poverty in the slums of Casablanca. But when Sofia is brutally murdered, the police quickly zero in on Othman as the prime suspect. With his mistress, the love of his life, waiting in the wings he certainly has motive. But is he guilty? Or has he been framed by an overzealous, corrupt police force?

Last Bets

Last Bets
Author: Michaela McGuire
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2014-06-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0522862403

On a Sunday evening in July 2011, 40-year-old Anthony dunning was pinned to the floor of Melbourne's Crown casino by security staff. Four days later, he died in the intensive care unit of the Alfred Hospital. The incident was reported to the police by two friends who were with dunning on the night—not by Crown casino. Later that week, a spokesperson for the police said that even though Crown had no legal requirement to report such incidents, 'they probably had a moral obligation' to do so. Crown casino said that its employees were just doing their job. Three months later, a young security guard was charged with manslaughter. Michaela McGuire follows the trial, trying to make sense of the gap between ethics and the law. She speaks to problem gamblers and psychologists, a casino priest and David Walsh, Australia's most notorious gambler. Last Bets is true crime writing at its best—disturbing, gripping, and unnerving. A must-read for gamblers, the gambling industry, law makers and everyone who cares.

TALKING ETHICS WITH COPS

TALKING ETHICS WITH COPS
Author: Neal Tyler
Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2016-10-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0398091293

This book stems from more than 30 years of experience in the development of practical law enforcement ethics training. It is written based on the real-world application of a wide variety of approaches to enhancing ethics awareness and decision-making skills. There has been an explosion of efforts to increase the emphasis on ethics in law enforcement. The most effective of these efforts involve our law enforcement officers themselves in (1) sharing ideas, experiences, and wisdom with each other and (2) analyzing long-term consequences in a risk-free learning environment, before the need arises for making actual decisions or engaging in conduct. Accomplishing those objectives can be attempted with a variety of formats, presentations, and approaches. Instead of being shown how to “teach” ethics, readers will be given material and ideas on how to enhance existing ethics awareness and ethics skills with their personnel. Readers are provided with pointers on talking with staff, not “at” them, in order to foster awareness about how ethical values and standards to which they already subscribe apply in real-world law enforcement decision-making and conduct. A unique aspect of this text is that it is written primarily for line sergeants and lieutenants to use with their own in-service personnel. It contains material that is designed to be easy-to-present and non-intimidating. It is adaptable to briefings of limited duration as well as longer training sessions. There is substantial content to enable an agency to maintain an on-going program of recurrent, short-but-meaningful discussions with and among personnel. Most importantly, it is practical and down-to-earth–not theoretical or abstract. Also, the book is based on the belief that with a combination of interest and practice, any sergeant or lieutenant, or any officer or deputy, can overcome any self-perceived weakness and become an accomplished “ethics awareness discussion leader.” In addition to its primary audience, the book will also be a helpful resource for field-training officers, senior officers, non-sworn personnel, and law enforcement executives.

Marked

Marked
Author: George Christie
Publisher: Kate Pereira
Total Pages:
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A story of lies, loyalty, betrayal and brotherhood. A fictional novel by former Hells Angels president George Christie, currently being made into a TV series in Spain.

An Inconvenient Cop

An Inconvenient Cop
Author: Edwin Raymond
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2023-10-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0593653173

“With illuminating, vivid, and meticulous prose, Edwin Raymond delivers an extraordinary exposé on policing in America . . . An essential, exceptional work.” —Toluse Olorunnipa, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of His Name Is George Floyd From the highest-ranking whistleblower in NYPD history, a gripping insider look at the complexities of modern policing and the urgent need for reform Over his decade and a half with the New York Police Department, Edwin Raymond consistently exposed the dark underbelly of modern policing, becoming the highest-ranking whistleblower in the history of the force and one of the country’s leading voices against police injustice. Offering a rare, often shocking view of American policing, An Inconvenient Cop pulls back the curtain on the many flaws woven into the NYPD’s training, data, and practices, which have since been repackaged and repurposed by police departments across the country. Gravitating toward law enforcement in the hope of being a positive influence in his community, Raymond quickly learned that the problem with policing is a lot deeper than merely “a few bad apples”—the entire mechanism is set up to ensure that racial profiling is rewarded, and there are weighty consequences for cops who don’t play along. Struggling with the moral dilemma of policing impartially while witnessing his fellow officers go with the flow, Raymond’s journey takes him to the precipice of personal and professional ruin. Yet, through it all, he remains steadfast in his commitment to justice and his belief in the potential for change. At once revelatory and galvanizing, An Inconvenient Cop courageously bears witness to and exposes institutional violence. It presents a vision of radical hope and makes the case for a world in which the police’s responsibility is not to arrest numbers but to the people.

No Ball

No Ball
Author: Chandramohan Puppala
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2019-04-11
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1529028337

Whispers, and then some progressively loud murmurs! Match fixing and illegal betting had begun to pervade the cricketing world. In 2000, when the much respected South African skipper, Hansie Cronje, was found guilty of match fixing soon after a trail of stars fell after the another. Prominent cricketers from India, South Africa, Kenya, England, Sri Lanka, West Indies, Pakistan, came out as fixers over the next decade. Life bans were handed out like sixes on no balls! The scandal really hit home in 2013, when spot-fixing allegations in the Indian Premier League resulted in the ouster of Indian and Rajasthan Royals bowler Sreesanth, along with two other players. This incident threw open the murky underworld connection – quite literally – in Indian cricket. For the first time, journalist Chandramohan Puppala traces cricket's biggest corruption back to the kingpin Dawood Ibrahim himself. Based on transcripts of police-recorded conversations and unpublished information about the players at the key of the storm, including some of India's biggest names, No Ball is a revealing account of the rot at the heart of Indian cricket.