Kategoria BISAC: Biography & Autobiography >> Law Enforcement

On November 2nd, 1984, Art Labrousse was elected Sheriff of Wasco County in what would become one of the most controversial elections in modern US history. Elected Through Terror tells the story of a small group of people desperate to hold on to law and order in a troubling time. These people were willing to give up everything to keep their way of life. Learn the truth firsthand from the source as he remembers it.

On November 2nd, 1984, Art Labrousse was elected Sheriff of Wasco County in what would become one of the most controversial elections in modern US history. Elected through Terror tells the story of a small group of people desperate to hold on to law and order in a troubling time. These people were willing to give up everything to keep their way of life. What they didn't know would cost them dearly. Learn the truth firsthand from a trusted source.

John Lepore's law enforcement career was to end in 1983 after twenty-one years. In that time, he received over twenty-five awards for Special Acts, Outstanding Performance and Special Achievement. He additionally received two Presidential Citations. He loved working the street and had no use for the "suits," those "individuals who never worked the street or made any significant cases, but somehow managed to move up the ladder." Read about some of the interesting assignments that he had and about some of the cases he supervised in Had Gun, Did Travel.

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This new memoir by an experienced leader in the security industry chronicles Michael Shetler's exciting life as a law enforcement officer. Shetler started a lifelong love affair with law enforcement and security in 1973 when he joined the Presidential Honor Guard in Washington, DC. This passion led to many adventures across America.

Whether it was fighting in the Miami cocaine wars of the eighties or encountering skin-walkers while working as a sheriff in Colorado, Shetler has embraced the American experience. He expands these stories to not only entertain but also educate a new...

Retired Game Warden Wayne Fitzwater served in the Montana Fish & Game Department for over 25 years, covering many of the warden districts in the southwestern part of the state. He began his tenure with the department in the 1950s, and witnessed several changes to the warden's role and responsibilities over the span of his career. In 1971, he was named Montana's Wildlife Officer of the Year. The stories he shares in Where in the Hell Did You Come From? tell of the many ups and downs of being a game warden in the rugged wilds of the American West. The job wasn't just checking hunting licenses...

In I Will Not Be a Pawn, a prison corrections officer provides a unique perspective on the complex relationships and hierarchies of the prison system and how life behind bars has both changed and stayed the same.

Joseph S. Spicer Sr. details his life both within the Department of Corrections and outside. His memoirs provide a powerful look at corruption and courage.

Spicer notes that corrections officers aren't supposed to stand out. They are supposed to be homogenous units designed to aid the more important pieces without drawing any attention to themselves. In short,...

Are you searching for comfort and wondering, "Where is God?" amidst terror and turmoil?

The day that changed the world--September 11, 2001--propelled America into the long war, the Global War on Terror. Like many Americans who serve our country, Chaplain Bob Ossler donned his firefighter turn-out gear, boarded a plane, and made his way to Manhattan to help in any way possible. He was escorted onto the smoldering, quaking heap, dubbed "The Pile." Entering into the Gates of Hell--the crematorium and morgue for nearly 3000 beloved...

In her reflective, personal tale, Marie Bell-Mack examines what she learned over the years about how we define success and happiness. She emigrated from Jamaica in search of better opportunities, but soon she spotted hidden cracks in the so-called American dream.

She arrived in America in the late 1980s, prepared to work hard and willing to do anything to be successful. But in pursuing a new life, there are always trade-offs. It was surprising that a nation so much larger and with so much opportunity could feel so cramped-each person's life occurring in a space the size of a New...

This is an original non-fiction narrative of a contemporary Pacific Northwest Hero. No group of Hollywood writers could invent a more compelling make-believe character. His daring exploits would make the late crazy motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel set up in his grave and tip his crash helmet towards Rick. I decided to tell his life story as a suspense narrative. Because Rick's life is the poster child for a Hollywood style suspense/thriller movie. "Shatterproof... the countless lives of Sheriff Rick." At first it was to be 'the nine lives of Sheriff Rick, ' but that would be grossly...

In a career forged in the saddle on scout duty along the Rio Grande, Arthur Hill witnessed dramatic changes from 1947 to 1974. Whether inspecting brands, deterring smugglers of everything from cattle to candelilla wax, or giving chase on horseback across merciless terrain often into Mexico Hill found himself immersed in a world that straddled centuries as well as cultures.Promotion to sergeant of Ranger Company B in 1957 took Hill to Dallas, where he brought his brush-country methods to bear on urban crimes. Yet after only a year, and despite the opportunity for advancement to captain, Hill...

Settlers in the frontier West were often easy prey for criminals. Policing efforts were scattered at best and often amounted to vigilante retaliation. To create a semblance of order, freelance enforcers of the law known as man-hunters undertook the search for fugitives. These pursuers have often been portrayed as ruthless bounty hunters, no better than the felons they pursued. Robert K. DeArment's detailed account of their careers redeems their reputations and reveals the truth behind their fascinating legends.

As DeArment shows, man-hunters were far more likely to capture...

Over the course of Eric Johnson's career of over 20 years in conservation law enforcement in rural Connecticut, many people asked him how one gets into that field, and what it is like to work as Park Ranger or Game Warden. In the pages of From Park Ranger to Game Warden, Eric looks to provide some answers to those questions, starting with a section on Eric's path to his career and his early days as a police officer. Eric moves next to some of his observations on topics such as the troubling problem of opiate addiction, that even Conservation Police Officers come across during patrols. Also...

I'd rather you call me Charlie spans sixty-five years of reminiscences replete with the dreams of a five-year-old that came to life with humor, mischief, and some degree of peril growing into my teenage years. Life in the South enabled me to engage in antics and adventures that would prepare me for an amazing and thrilling journey into adulthood. Learn about real life events in the 1950's and 1960's in Alabama and Georgia including my surprising and poignant forty-two-year law enforcement career. You'll feel like you're there witnessing many natural deaths and fatalities that came too often....

D. W. Roberts was born in the State of Mississippi, in Winston County, October 10th, 1841. His father, Alexander Roberts, came to Texas in 1836, and helped the Texans fight the battles of the Republic for nearly four years, being in many engagements with the enemy, the most noted of which was the Plum Creek fight, which has gone into the history of Texas. Soon after the Plum Creek fight, my mother prevailed on father to take his family to some place of safety, firmly believing that wholesale murder would be their fate: (Father's judgment was waived) and her love of family won her cause, and...

D. W. Roberts was born in the State of Mississippi, in Winston County, October 10th, 1841. His father, Alexander Roberts, came to Texas in 1836, and helped the Texans fight the battles of the Republic for nearly four years, being in many engagements with the enemy, the most noted of which was the Plum Creek fight, which has gone into the history of Texas. Soon after the Plum Creek fight, my mother prevailed on father to take his family to some place of safety, firmly believing that wholesale murder would be their fate: (Father's judgment was waived) and her love of family won her cause, and...

A legendary figure in Virginia and North Carolina law enforcement for the past fifty years, Herb Cooley has achieved the highest laurels awarded to a police officer. A native of rural Grayson County, he enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard and went to work for the High Point Police Department, where he was a patrolmen, motorcycle cop and detective in the thick of the Civil Rights group when such notoriously dangerous groups as the Black Panthers moved through town. Herb also maintained a clean record as an officer at a time when his police department was under tremendous scrutiny. He eventually...

Police Officer John W. Howsden patrols the streets of Fremont, California, with a different perspective than most cops. As a nineteen-year-old college student, he was arrested on rape charges and spent three hellish days in jail before being released for mistaken identity. Experiencing -the other side- of the badge helped him show compassion and understanding to others throughout his thirty-year career.

This suspenseful memoir details his painful arrest and his journey to becoming a respected police officer. Follow along as he engages in a shootout with a robber who is thought to...

When the rest of us run away, it's the police officers up and down the country who run into danger and into some of the messiest and most tragic events imaginable. But there's a price to pay. Robert Moon's vivid description of how he left the SAS for a life in the Scottish police gives a shocking insight into the toll that police life can take on even the toughest individuals. At times funny, at other times almost unbearably sad, and often both at the same time, this heart-rending account will leave you with awed respect for the ordinary police men and women, the cops on the front line - and...