Author : Chuck Zito
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 29,37 MB
Release : 2003-12-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780312320218
The story of the former Golden Gloves boxer and actor describes his coming of age on the streets of New York, presidency of the Hell's Angels, experiences as a celebrity bodyguard, and television career.
Author : Treasure Hernandez
Publisher : Urban Books
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 22,84 MB
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1622861396
When Billie was eight years old, her father was murdered. Ever since that day, she has vowed to bring every criminal to justice, especially the man responsible for her father's death. Twenty years later, Billie is still on a mission to rid the streets of criminals. If she can't do it legally, then she takes matters into her own hands. Billie is the hottest lawyer in the district attorney's office. Her record for winning cases is unmatched. If she keeps it up, she could one day take the top spot and become the district attorney. Her boyfriend, Walter, is a hard-nosed detective in the Philadelphia police department. He wants more of Billie's time, but she can't give it to him because she's busy ridding the streets of criminals—and trying to keep her dark secret hidden. Can Billie have it all? Can she keep her boyfriend happy, keep her career on track, and still satisfy her lust for street justice? Treasure Hernandez, author of Flint and Baltimore Chronicles, delivers another action-packed street classic that will have readers on the edge of their seats.
Author : Bruce A. Jacobs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 28,65 MB
Release : 2006-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521617987
This study examines the structure, process and forms of retaliation in contemporary urban America where street criminals employ it instead of recourse to the criminal justice system. It explores retaliation from a first hand perspective, based on interviews with currently active street criminals rather than prisoners.
Author : Marilynn S. Johnson
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 26,41 MB
Release : 2004-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807050231
Street Justice traces the stunning history of police brutality in New York City, and the antibrutality movements that sought to eradicate it, from just after the Civil War through the present. New York's experience with police brutality dates back to the founding of the force and has shown itself in various forms ever since: From late-nineteenth-century "clubbing"-the routine bludgeoning of citizens by patrolmen with nightsticks-to the emergence of the "third degree," made notorious by gangster movies, from the violent mass-action policing of political dissidents during periods of social unrest, such as the 1930s and 1960s, to the tumultuous days following September 11. Yet throughout this varied history, the victims of police violence have remained remarkably similar: they have been predominantly poor and working class, and more often than not they have been minorities. Johnson compellingly argues that the culture of policing will only be changed when enough sustained political pressure and farsighted thinking about law enforcement is brought to bear on the problem.
Author : R. N. Scott
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 33,8 MB
Release : 2004-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1413452272
After the world narrowly avoids World War III, F.B.I. agent Mark Tice turns to politics in his search for justice. Mark comes from a past that is gradually revealed in periodic visits to the catacombs of St. Jude's Cathedral. Politics, crime, terrorism, greed, corruption and their counterparts dominate the present as Mark travels a parallel journey in unexplained visions revealing similar circumstances in the fall of all the great Empires of old. Mark struggles with the problems of the present in fear that the evils of the past are following in the shadows, possibly in the form of those he considers friends. On his lonely journey Mark meets Jennifer Hewitt, who is the reincarnation of his love from a time and place whose existence is in question. Jennifer's family becomes the center of his life's quest. As political success grows an important question must be answered. The appearance of police brutality and corruption is the focus, but how legitimate are the complaints? Jennifer's brother Tony is a rookie police officer, who gives life to the world of law enforcement. Terrorism, political correctness, liberal forces and greedy businessmen jeopardize the stability of the country. A select, somewhat clandestine group, debate these problems on several visits to the Hewitt household. Suspicious deaths and disappearances of prominent people cause great concern throughout the country. Mark and those close to him fear a plot revealed on the grave of a police officer killed by terrorists has been put in motion. Mark needs to find a just society, while some of those close to him want a society of their own making. The consensus is the final result will be Street Justice. If justice and security are not found within the confines of the law, justice must be administered on the streets. Governments must be strong in order to keep justice on the side of right. When governments fail to protect the law-abiding, there is no law, no security and no justice. This is the story line, but the point I am trying to get across is that the failures of the past are becoming evident in the present and making the future predictable.
Author : Marc Andreyko
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,73 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 9781401207281
When top federal prosecutor Kate Spencer loses a case against a super-villain--setting him free to kill again--she breaks the laws she's long upheld to become Los Angeles' newest crimefighting vigilante.
Author : John Noonan
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 44,24 MB
Release : 2014-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1496976231
Veteran Garda Detective Brown finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly game of cat and mouse between gun-wielding vigilantes and Dublins drug gangs. Someone is dealing out deadly justice to drug dealers, and Brown must stop them before another corpse turns up. Can he trust Macker, his petty criminal tout? Is he telling Brown all he knows? Have antidrug activists, Billy and Mary ONeill, really turned their backs on violence? When a criminal kingpin comes out of hiding, things really heat up. Just when Brown plans to draw the net over drug dealers and vigilantes alike, the tables are turned with deadly consequences.
Author : Jason Bruce
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 26,47 MB
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1783019875
In a world where those at the top seem to constantly get away with murder, often quite literally, where white collar crime is punished with a mere slap on the wrist or more often than not just swept under the rug, wouldn't it be nice to see at least some form of punishment meted out? Street Justice poses one of those big what if questions that lurk in the back of our minds. What would we like to see happen to that murderer when he's caught? What if those muggers chose the wrong person to steal from and got a severe beating for their troubles? Now imagine if one day the government decided to do something about it, a token gesture at least, and offer the choice between thirty years behind bars for playing a role in crashing the stock market, or thirty days seeing how the other half, in this case, the homeless. What with overcrowding in prisons as it is, as well as public resentment at having to pay their taxes for people like that to serve a shortened sentence in an open prison watching TV, getting three meals a day when ordinary folk rely on food banks, wouldn't it make more sense to give them a much shorter, but much harsher sentence sleeping out in the cold, eating out of rubbish bins, etc? Based on trust, in this scenario there would be no need for walls, barbed wire, armed guards, etc, only an independent film maker and his crew, moderate government funding and a team of three genuinely homeless men with drug and alcohol issues to run the show. What could possibly go wrong? Heaven forbid it ever did and word were to get out, the whole thing might just be swept under the rug, all footage of the event seized, never to see the light of day ever again. But what if, just if, a transcript of the recorded material still existed? Now imagine those shameless champagne guzzling, tax avoiding, let them eat cake boys getting the only real justice they deserve. Street Justice!
Author : James Jones
Publisher : Author House
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 37,15 MB
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1481736426
This heartbreaking story starts in a place called the criminal circle where you will meet those who will capture you, judge you and then sentence you under the laws of Street Justice. It follows Taylor and Dogg two young handsome men on a perilous journey from Texas to New York meeting many characters such as Elephant Man, Sugar Daddy and Reverend Omar among many others. It is not an easy story to tell because of the pain, suffering and bloodshed that remind us of the terrifying events that are happening in our neighborhoods every day.
Author : R. Roberts Gibson
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 31,17 MB
Release : 2019-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1532063768
JUDGE ANITA TOLLIVER is one of those women who appears to have it all-brains, beauty and a highly-respected career in her hometown of Florence, Michigan. Her perfect world takes a drastic turn when her marriage starts to fail, and she enters into a sex-drenched affair with Florence PD Lt. Detective, Sherman Lacy. After a mother and her two children are found brutally murdered, everyone in Florence demands swift retribution. The escalation of the summer’s heat has caused tensions to rise. Judge Tolliver is tapped to preside over the case. A conflict exists because Lacy is the lead Detective on the same case. Judge Tolliver knows that she must get the case right, if not, the legal spotlight may reveal her secrets which are radically at odds with her public persona. The question becomes, what is a desperate judge willing to do to protect her secrets?
