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Historically, we have known little about the heads of police in Europe, but over the course of two years of careful research, Bryn Caless and Steve Tong worked to remedy this gap. Caless and Tong here draw on unprecedented access to those at the top of European police forces to obtain detailed comments from more than one hundred strategic police leaders in twenty-two countries. This book presents for the first time information about how these leaders are selected for high office, how they are held accountable, and how they view current and future challenges in policing. Endorsed by the...

Once a forbidding area of swamps and forests, Berkley was uninhabited until the early 19th century. In 1924, the Detroit News disparaged the "frontier community" and wrote that it "resembles a settlement in the oil waste of Wyoming." Still, forward-thinking residents thought Berkley had a bright future. Two factions with competing ideas raced with paperwork to the Oakland County Courthouse in Pontiac; the triumphant group, desiring a small town, camped out overnight to be the first in line. Later incorporated as a city in 1932, Berkley's history includes the invention of the Benjamin Grain...