Author : Bo Dietl
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 20,28 MB
Release : 1998-10
Category : Criminal investigation
ISBN : 0671028413
"This is the true story of the maverick cop who made the busts, the headlines, and the controversies. Now Bo Dietl tells what it's really like inside the raw and deadly world of a big-city-cop--and how one man became a legend from the station house to the streets"--Back cover.
Author : Harold I. Gullan
Publisher : Camino Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,45 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781933822778
Not in my town, 'scumbag'!" That's been the mantra of law enforcement legend Mike Chitwood for nearly half a century. Now, for the first time, Tough Cop vividly tells it all from Chitwood's exploits as the most decorated cop in Philadelphia history to his action-packed years in homicide and his notable success as a hostage negotiator (when, at the risk of his life, he didn't carry a gun) to his challenging experiences heading the police departments in three very different communities from Pennsylvania to Maine. The most colorful cop in America comes alive in these pages, inviting you to share in his remarkable life, while also sharing with you his own timely views on sane gun control, fighting terrorism, and the future of our war against crime. Tough Cop chronicles a compelling career, especially relevant to every American today. Book jacket.
Author : John Roeburt
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 37,17 MB
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1479447587
The crooks, the grafters, all of New York's underworld kept telling themselves that they never had it so good as they would now, with Johnny Devereaux retiring from the force after 21 years. Devereaux was a tough cop, tough to encounter and impossible to bluff. Devereaux was doing a little chortling of his own. He was still young enough to enjoy life; he wanted to read some books, take a little trip, fulfill a few dreams. He was sitting in his car that evening, thinking about his beautiful future, when his beautiful future -- in the form of Jennifer Phillips -- opened the door of the car, sat down, and said, "Please hurry!" So she was twenty years his junior -- so what? She was very, very beautiful, she was in trouble, and Devereaux was ripe for romance. Or call it an automatic reflex, if you prefer to think of him as a tough cop; say he had been on the force so long that he responded mechanically to a try for assistance. "Roeburt returned in his fourth to the tough-guy genre and a character modeled on the later Bogart." -- Mike Nevins
Author : Dahlia Rose
Publisher : Dahlia Rose Unscripted
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 22,45 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Maxwell Kincaid had worked in the NYPD long enough that most things didn’t surprise him anymore. The detective, who preferred to work alone, admitted to himself long ago that he was jaded. So when he was called out to a hostage situation at a women’s shelter in the middle of the night it was another job that kept him out of his warm bed. He heard the sobs behind the maniacal screaming of the hostage taker and the woman begging for help pleading for the life of her unborn child that fell on deaf ears. This struck a chord in him and Max was determined to save everyone, to save her. In the midst of the chaos, after storming the house, Max delivered the baby of Nicole Henry. From the time he looked into Nicole’s eyes and the face of the newborn, something shifted in his life. He wanted to show her that every man wasn’t cruel and used their hands to abuse. Max was never one to believe in love at first sight but the feeling hit him like a lightning bolt. Nicole and the baby needed tender loving care and he was the man to give them the love they needed.
Author : Roger Hopkins Burke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,93 MB
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1135993637
Spanning policing from zero tolerance to 'softer' approaches, this book explores the dilemmas and moral ambiguities inherent in the tensions between different policing approaches.
Author : Wayne "Big Chuck" Bradshaw
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 28,21 MB
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1770908439
This entertaining true crime memoir chronicles one man’s redemptive journey from motorcycle gang enforcer to undercover police officer. The only patch-wearing outlaw biker to become a sworn police officer—and live to tell his tale In 1977, Wayne “Big Chuck” Bradshaw was Jersey tough. He was a member of the outlaw Pagans bike gang, a One Percenter, and had earned his colours in a world of boozing, bloody bar fights, and high-stakes crime. But after getting too close to extreme violence, Bradshaw made the life-threatening decision to change his path. The toughness Bradshaw used to survive biker life led him to a distinguished and heroic career as an undercover narcotics officer for the same New Jersey police department that had once arrested him. Bradshaw tells his story with the truth of the streets, from his time in the U.S. Army to his decision to join the Pagans, to the wild adventures of working narcotic stings. He rode with truly dangerous criminals and then returned to those same places as a cop. He tracks down fugitives in Jersey’s toughest neighbourhoods, risks his life rescuing dozens from a fire in a seniors’ residence, and volunteers in the aftermath of 9/11. Jersey Tough is an unflinching memoir of personal struggle, of battling with darkness, and ultimately of redemption. Praise for Jersey Tough “Bradshaw delivers both unflinching honesty and gritty, raw action in this fast-moving thriller.” —Joe Pistone, a.k.a. Donnie Brasco “Fast-paced, brutally honest, and compelling.” —Lisa Pulitzer, New York Times–bestselling author “As a former sergeant-at-arms in one of the other “Big Four” motorcycle clubs, I can confirm the authenticity of the biker tales graphically revealed on these pages. Epxosing his courage as well as his frailties, Big Chuck bares all with surprising candor.” —Glenn Heggstad, author of Two Wheels Through Terror “[An] immensely entertaining memoir. . . . This fascinating book is true-crime writing at its best and will appeal to anyone interested in the sordid dealings of America's criminal underworlds.”—Publishers Weekly
Author : Kathleen Kent
Publisher : Mulholland Books
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,74 MB
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316311065
Brooklyn's toughest female detective takes on Dallas in this "violent, sexy, and completely absorbing" Edgar Award nominee, the first novel in the acclaimed Betty Rhyzyhk series (Kirkus Reviews). Dallas, Texas is not for the faint of heart. Good thing for Betty Rhyzyk she's from a family of take-no-prisoners Brooklyn police detectives. But her Big Apple wisdom will only get her so far when she relocates to The Big D, where Mexican drug cartels and cult leaders, deadbeat skells and society wives all battle for sunbaked turf. Betty is as tough as the best of them, but she's deeply shaken when her first investigation goes sideways. Battling a group of unruly subordinates, a persistent stalker, a formidable criminal organization, and an unsupportive girlfriend, the unbreakable Detective Betty Rhyzyk may be reaching her limit. Combining the colorful pyrotechnics of Breaking Bad with the best of the gritty crime genre, The Dime is Kathleen Kent's brilliant mystery debut and the launch of a sensational new series. "Only a fan blowing in the right direction could flip the pages of this lightning-paced tale any faster." --Minneapolis Star Tribune
Author : John F. Timoney
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 22,79 MB
Release : 2011-06-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0812205421
Born in a rough-and-tumble neighborhood of Dublin, John F. Timoney moved to New York with his family in 1961. Not long after graduating from high school in the Bronx, he entered the New York City Police Department, quickly rising through the ranks to become the youngest four-star chief in the history of that department. Timoney and the rest of the command assembled under Police Commissioner Bill Bratton implemented a number of radical strategies, protocols, and management systems, including CompStat, that led to historic declines in nearly every category of crime. In 1998, Mayor Ed Rendell of Philadelphia hired Timoney as police commissioner to tackle the city's seemingly intractable violent crime rate. Philadelphia became the great laboratory experiment: Could the systems and policies employed in New York work elsewhere? Under Timoney's leadership, crime declined in every major category, especially homicide. A similar decrease not only in crime but also in corruption marked Timoney's tenure in his next position as police chief of Miami, a post he held from 2003 to January 2010. Beat Cop to Top Cop: A Tale of Three Cities documents Timoney's rise, from his days as a tough street cop in the South Bronx to his role as police chief of Miami. This fast-moving narrative by the man Esquire magazine named "America's Top Cop" offers a blueprint for crime prevention through first-person accounts from the street, detailing how big-city chiefs and their teams can tame even the most unruly cities. Policy makers and academicians have long embraced the view that the police could do little to affect crime in the long term. John Timoney has devoted his career to dispelling this notion. Beat Cop to Top Cop tells us how.
Author : Philip Bonifacio
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,37 MB
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1489906002
SOME DISCLAIMERS It is somewhat unusual to begin a book by declaring what it is not, but the topic of police behavior is so complex that it requires the writer to state as early as possible the limits of what he has written here to describe and explain a police officer's experience. In order for the reader to get a clear idea of what areas of police behavior are to be described, it is nec essary to delineate those aspects of police behavior that are beyond the scope of this book. First of all, this book is about the psychological effects of police work on policemen: male police officers. Nearly all of the police officers with whom I have worked have been men, so my impressions and opinions are based on the experiences of male police officers. Consequently, descriptions and expla nations of the motivations, anxieties, psychological defenses, and resultant behavior of police officers must be limited to policemen. I believe that there are significant differences in the psychological effects of police work on men and women, but this book does not address this issue.
Author : Donald E. Westlake
Publisher : Mysterious Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release : 2001-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0759522944
Due to a foiled burglary in a high-tech lab doing research for cigarette manufacturers, Freddie Noon, the thief, is now invisible. This condition has clear-cut advantages for a man in Freddie's profession, but now everybody wants a glimpse of Freddie. But Freddie doesn't dare show his face, his shadow, anything. Because Freddie Noon has gotten a taste of invisibility--and he can't quit now.
