Under Arrest : My War With The Police

Under Arrest : My War With The Police
Author: Tom Parks, Ph.D.
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2013-06-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 162857027X

Synopsis: 'Under Arrest'...by Tom Parks is a true story of a young rebel who gets arrested and ends up behind bars. Ten months out of the author's life and ten months where he witnessed just how cruel people could be to each other. More a nuisance rather than a proper thug, this e-book is an insight into the young, mis-guided mind. The law-abiding general public never see the inside of a prison cell, had a prison sentence, or been on the wrong side of the law in any way. Harrowing and emotionally stark in places, perhaps that public should know what it is like to get locked up and serve a prison sentence. Intent on breaking the prison's top rule, escaping, the authors re-capture only made him more determined to upset the screws at every opportunity. About the Author: NA

Cop in the Hood

Cop in the Hood
Author: Peter Moskos
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2009-08-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1400832268

When Harvard-trained sociologist Peter Moskos left the classroom to become a cop in Baltimore's Eastern District, he was thrust deep into police culture and the ways of the street--the nerve-rattling patrols, the thriving drug corners, and a world of poverty and violence that outsiders never see. In Cop in the Hood, Moskos reveals the truths he learned on the midnight shift. Through Moskos's eyes, we see police academy graduates unprepared for the realities of the street, success measured by number of arrests, and the ultimate failure of the war on drugs. In addition to telling an explosive insider's story of what it is really like to be a police officer, he makes a passionate argument for drug legalization as the only realistic way to end drug violence--and let cops once again protect and serve. In a new afterword, Moskos describes the many benefits of foot patrol--or, as he calls it, "policing green."

The War on Cops

The War on Cops
Author: Heather Mac Donald
Publisher: Encounter Books
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2016-06-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1594038767

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.

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.

Down, Out &Under Arrest

Down, Out &Under Arrest
Author: Forrest Stuart
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2016-08-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 022637095X

“A well-supported critique of therapeutic policing and, by extension, of similar paternalistic efforts to help the poor by hassling them into good behavior.” —Los Angeles Times In his first year working in Los Angeles’s Skid Row, Forrest Stuart was stopped on the street by police fourteen times. Usually for doing little more than standing there. Juliette, a woman he met during that time, has been stopped by police well over one hundred times, arrested upward of sixty times, and has given up more than a year of her life serving week-long jail sentences. Her most common crime? Simply sitting on the sidewalk—an arrestable offense in LA. Why? What purpose did those arrests serve, for society or for Juliette? How did we reach a point where we’ve cut support for our poorest citizens, yet are spending ever more on policing and prisons? That’s the complicated, maddening story that Stuart tells in Down, Out & Under Arrest, a close-up look at the hows and whys of policing poverty in the contemporary United States. What emerges from Stuart’s years of fieldwork—not only with Skid Row residents, but with the police charged with managing them—is a tragedy built on mistakes and misplaced priorities more than on heroes and villains. At a time when distrust between police and the residents of disadvantaged neighborhoods has never been higher, Stuart’s book helps us see where we’ve gone wrong, and what steps we could take to begin to change the lives of our poorest citizens—and ultimately our society itself—for the better.

New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs.

New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs.
Author: New York (State). Court of Appeals.
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1058
Release: 1908
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Volume contains: 191 NY 537 (Mackay v. Seaman) 191 NY 293 (People v. Jackson) 191 NY 533 (People v. Way) 191 NY 286 (People v. Knight) 191 NY 329 (Quinlan v. Lackawanna Steel Co.)

The Dogs of War

The Dogs of War
Author: B. O. B. WILD
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2009-06-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1409288900

Stories of working class life in Prestwich, Manchester during world war two

Winning the War on Cancer

Winning the War on Cancer
Author: Sylvie Beljanski
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2018-03-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1683507266

“A fascinating combination of personal story and details on the suppression of holistic cancer(and other disease) therapies” (Ann E. Fonfa, president, The Annie Appleseed Project). President Nixon signed the National Cancer Act in 1971, declaring a war on the disease. Nearly fifty years and several billion dollars later, it looks like we have lost the battle. Or have we? What if a natural solution had been there all along, just overlooked by the pharmaceutical industry? When a new, natural, and non-toxic way to address cancer is being discovered, it is a game changer that does not go unnoticed in the scientific community. But instead of being hailed and embraced, it is fiercely opposed by prominent scientists with strong ties to the pharmaceutical industry, and the might of the government is called to the rescue. As a result, we are losing the war on cancer. Mirko Beljanski, PhD, one of the first green molecular biologists, was called upon by former French president François Mitterrand to treat his prostate cancer, allowing him to reach his second term in office, but upon his death, Beljanski became the subject of relentless persecution aimed at wiping out this information. In Winning the War on Cancer, his daughter Sylvie Beljanski outlines her journey of learning about her father’s discoveries, and ensuring his legacy is available to all those struggling with the disease today. “Whether a current patient or caregiver, a survivor, a researcher, an author/speaker, or a physician, the information in this book is groundbreaking, exciting, and essential to know . . . Sincere, captivating, poignant, and educational.” —Annie Brandt, founder and president of Emerita, Best Answer for Cancer Foundation

Into the Kill Zone

Into the Kill Zone
Author: David Klinger
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2012-06-26
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1118429761

What's it like to have the legal sanction to shoot and kill? This compelling and often startling book answers this, and many other questions about the oft-times violent world inhabited by our nation's police officers. Written by a cop-turned university professor who interviewed scores of officers who have shot people in the course of their duties, Into the Kill Zone presents firsthand accounts of the role that deadly force plays in American police work. This brilliantly written book tells how novice officers are trained to think about and use the power they have over life and death, explains how cops live with the awesome responsibility that comes from the barrels of their guns, reports how officers often hold their fire when they clearly could have shot, presents hair-raising accounts of what it's like to be involved in shoot-outs, and details how shooting someone affects officers who pull the trigger. From academy training to post-shooting reactions, this book tells the compelling story of the role that extreme violence plays in the lives of America's cops.