Kategoria BISAC: Biography & Autobiography >> Law Enforcement

Norman A. Carter Jr. was sitting in an Army barracks in the 1960s when he decided to become a police officer--and in 1967, he was accepted into the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, police academy.

His wife and family did not like the idea of him becoming an officer of the law. Police officers were known as people not to be trusted, and the people in Carter's neighborhood saw them as corrupt and brutal.

But Carter was convinced that the best way to change that perception and help the country heal during the turbulent Civil Rights Movement was to get a badge. He knew that once he...

Badge on Campus contains the recollections of Floyd W. Gill while he was assigned to the Castro Valley Unified School District and the Dublin Unified School District as a School Resource Officer. Floyd changed the course of many young lives with his caring and tough love. He always went the extra mile to help students make better choices and become better citizens. Topics in the book include cyber bullying, date rape, alcohol and drug use, internet security, sexual identity and gangs. This book offers an awareness of the problems that today's youth face and is be a must read for...

Martin Corona, a US citizen, fell into the outlaw life at twelve and worked for a crew run by the Arellano brothers, founders of the the Tijuana drug cartel that dominated the Southern California drug trade and much bloody gang warfare for decades. Corona's crew would cross into the United...

This unique book, edited by John Winterdyk of Mount Royal University, includes insightful profiles and first-person accounts of the men and women who have shaped Canadian criminology and criminal justice from colonial times to the present. Intriguing memoirs by Patricia L. Brantingham and Paul J. Brantingham, Ezzat Fattah, Arlène Gaudreault, Jim Hackler, Marc Le Blanc, Irvin Waller, Jo-Anne Wemmers provide a ringside seat to the evolution of criminology and related disciplines and sub-disciplines, including criminal justice, victimology, and the study of corrections and policing. In...

It's no secret that federal agencies are waging a broad, global war against terror. But for the first time in this memoir, an active Muslim American federal agent reveals his experience infiltrating and bringing down a terror cell in North America.

A longtime undercover agent, Tamer Elnoury joined an elite counterterrorism unit after September 11. Its express purpose is to gain the trust of terrorists whose goals are to take out as many Americans in as public and as devastating a way possible....

Fightin' Words is a collection of essays and articles by W. Hock Hochheim about his life-long, worldwide, and somewhat skeptical quest to uncover the best fighting tactics and strategies. Here Hock reveals what he's learned as he trained and then became a worldwide, highly sought-after and acclaimed fighting instructor. These stories are based on his extensive travel, study and research of the psychology and physicality required to successfully fight criminals and enemy soldiers.

W. Hock Hochheim is a former military police patrolman and investigator; a former Texas patrol officer...