Law Enforcement

On a Thursday in November of 2013, Guadalupe Morales waited anxiously with her sister-in-law and their four small children. Every Latino man who drove away from their shared apartment above a small auto repair shop that day had failed to return - arrested, one by one, by ICE agents and local police. As the two women discussed what to do next, a SWAT team clad in body armor and carrying assault rifles stormed the room. In Separated, William D. Lopez examines the lasting damage done by this daylong act of collaborative immigration enforcement in Washtenaw County, Michigan.

Mafia-crats of New York A Detective’s Costly Crusade Against Mob-Inspired Corruption What happens when the real enemy isn’t just on the streets—but in city hall? In the shadows of New York’s political machine, where the lines between government and organized crime have long been blurred, one detective dares to push back. Mafia-crats of New York tells the gripping story of an anti-corruption investigator who risks everything to expose the mob’s enduring grip on local politics—and the quiet complicity of those sworn to uphold the law. Haunted by a turbulent past and targeted by ...

An unsolved murder, more than 40 years in the past, leads to the discovery of a new victim and the return of an old stalker. After a blow to the head, Owen Lafferty lied dying, alone in a cabin, far out in the woods and far from home. He was found by Dana Rossi-Crane as she happened along, chasing around the threads of a 1972 unsolved murder involving her mother-in-law, Faye and Owen and his family. Dana’s efforts were too little, too late to save Owen. With the two murders, 40 some years apart, looking like they’re related, a cast of suspects now in their sixties and seventies and a ...

This is the first comprehensive study of the history and evolution of American indecent exposure laws. The study informs a critical analysis of the role of courts as custos morum, or custodian of the morals. It contains a detailed constitutional analysis of legal management of morality. The laws are a cornerstone of government regulation of morals, with roots tracing back to seventeenth century English and American cases, laws, and regulations. The state interests protected by indecent exposure laws focus on deterring public behaviors contrary to prevailing moral order and protecting the ...

San Antonio detective Rick Marquez never met a case he couldn’t solve or a woman he couldn’t charm. That is, until Gwen Cassaway joins his squad. Sparks fly as the two law enforcement agents butt heads over every case that crosses their desks. Before long, the seemingly innocent Gwen has lassoed the smooth-talking sergeant’s heart—but will deep-rooted secrets ruin a blossoming romance?

Only seconds after widowed mother-to-be Naomi Carr-Cavanaugh is rescued from two masked gunmen, she’s accused of multiple murders. Detective Bennett Ford believes he’s finally apprehended the Rocky Mountain Killer—until Naomi is attacked again. Now she must rely on Bennett and his K-9 partner for protection. But with threats closing in, she’ll have to prove her innocence first in order to stay alive.

The Berlin Wall is crumbling, and with it comes the threat of a Soviet bio-weapons program that could bring the Cold War to an explosive end. Rookie officer Herman Faust apprehends a high priority defector during a routine traffic stop but it quickly spirals out of control when the defector's brother vanishes, and the defector is found dead in her holding cell! Faust finds himself entangled in a web of CIA secrets, anonymous threats, and a Soviet plot to launch a biological weapon on the American Embassy. With the stability of West Berlin on the line, Faust must risk all to stop the deadly ...

E. Winslow (Buddy) Chapman, the 39-year-old executive assistant to the Mayor of Memphis, Tennessee, became the first, and so far, only civilian to hold the top job at the Memphis Police Department. It was 1977. For decades Insurance companies have labeled Memphis the “Murder Capital of America.” The MPD was a police force that had been in crisis for more than a decade and was in dire need of leadership and reform. Chapman took charge as the new Memphis Police Director facing entrenched police corruption, multiple federal civil rights investigations and judicial consent decrees, an ...

A harrowing diagnosis, a life-or-death struggle for a gun, and multiple youthful facial injuries nearly broke me. Ironically, those incidents helped me unlock a very human strength I did not know I had. That same strength is found within each and everyone of us, regardless of what we face. At twenty-six years old, I was forced to unexpectedly confront my mortality. After an MRI of my back, doctors incidentally discovered that I had numerous cysts throughout both of my kidneys and liver. Statistics suggested that the life I had envisioned was no longer within my grasp. My life expectancy ...

Private Investigations provides practical guidance on all aspects of the investigative process and details how the different phases come together to ensure a successful outcome. It teaches the fundamental elements of an investigation, i.e., surveillance, open-source intelligence gathering, the handling of informants, other covert activities, evaluation of evidence, and much more.

Casey Hartman checks handsome Will Kerns into Belmont Inn, her family home passed down through generations. He claims to be on vacation, but when Casey witnesses a murder, Will flashes his DEA badge and takes her on the run. His real mission is to seize a drug operation in the historical town of Belmont. Casey can’t believe this is happening in her little town, much less that she witnessed a murder. Will is determined to take down the drug ring and the man leading the operation, but can he do that while running with Casey? She wasn’t part of his mission. Will soon realizes this ...

Ever wish there was a step-by-step blueprint to the law enforcement accreditation process? Do you feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of accreditation standards and having to compile documentation for each? Do you wear many hats in your agency, to include accreditation and have so little time to manage them all? Have you been doing it awhile and are ready to step up your A-game?

In this Very Short Introduction, Georgios A. Antonopoulos and Georgios Papanicolaou uncover the reality of organized crime in our world today. Shining a light on the people involved in organized crime, Antonopoulos and Papanicolaou question whether the term "organized" is used to evoke the image, the operations, and power of a legitimate organization, such as a corporation. Discussing whether there are particular crimes that the label "organized crime" applies to, or if any crime can be organized, they also consider what happens when organized crime extends beyond borders.

Deidra Frost is a U. S. Deputy Marshal assigned to the elite Witness Protection Program. Her first partner had died in the line of duty. That he was her lover was her dirty little secret. She is now teamed with a handsome, decorated veteran, and when a Federal Judge is killed in their town, they suddenly find themselves protecting the brother-in-law of the drug kingpin suspected of having the trigger pulled. Hardway is an assassin and a master of disguise. He believes he is the reincarnation of an ice pick-wielding hitman from the heyday of the mobster. Pittsburgh Phil was a famed killer ...

When the judiciary fails to deliver justice and turns a blind eye to the trouble in the streets, it's the time for the ordinary folks to convince them to do something, "we see people wasting away, we are losing lives, social structures have lost their steering and direction, even a police station is not a safe place to hide anymore," says a young activist lawyer to the supreme court judge, "all this is happening right under your nose while you sit right there on your high throne-like chair doing nothing as if you were a supreme being, wouldn’t you at least say something your highness? you...

In the seaside village of Sechelt, Emma O’Brea prepares a dinner to celebrate six years of marriage: ­a union she has polished to gleaming perfection, along with her showcase home. The next morning her husband leaves for work, never to return. At the same time, in nearby Vancouver, a simple-minded stock boy named Eddie Addison defends his tattered pride against the unwitting slights of a college girl, unleashing his rage in an act that will have far-reaching consequences.

Carly is a damn good cop. When there's a sting, she's the brave woman who walks into the heart of the danger. This time, she's after virtuoso criminal Eva, who runs a racketeering and protection network through her army of hypnotized female love-slaves. Can Carly resist becoming Eva's next conquest? As her eyelids droop and her will weakens, Carly may find herself succumbing to this succubus. But Eva may also find that Carly is more than she appears...

Someone wants Paige Bristow’s wolf sanctuary gone…and Paige dead. Officer Reece Campbell and his K-9 partner, Maverick, are the only ones she can turn to, but she never told him he was the father of her daughter. As the attacks escalate, Reece must uncover the perp and keep himself from falling for Paige all over again. But will the truth between them cost everything?

On a trip to Key West to talk with a wealthy developer about a new building project, Deal stops to help a young black man who is being rousted by police on a lonely beach road. The young man is appreciative, which makes it all the more shocking two days later, when he turns up dead. What happened? The police won't say. The locals won't talk.

This is the Oral Board and Scenarios for operational supervisors section of that effort. These materials are not the theoretical information that you find in the sources envisioning a false reality of what policing has become. This is for real police by real police that understands what goes into the promotional processes, what works, and what we need to know. All of the fluff has been taken out, just the facts, the tricks, and guidance.I seek to open the curtain on the promotional process to make it fair for everyone and, most importantly, to raise the bar and reserve the honor of ...