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Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
495 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When Bill Bratton became a Boston street cop after returning from serving in Vietnam, he was dismayed by the corrupt old guard , and it is fair to say the old guard was dismayed by him too. But his success fighting crime could not be denied. Propelled by extraordinary results, Bratton had a dazzling rise, and ultimately a dazzling career, becoming the most famous police commissioner of modern times. The Profession is the story of that career in full....
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
x, 243 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An urgent warning about the growing threat to our democracy from a twenty-year police veteran and former diehard Trump supporter who nearly lost his life during the insurrection of January 6th. When Michael Fanone self-deployed to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, he had no idea his life was about to change. When he got to the front of the line, he urged his fellow officers to hold it against the growing crowd of insurrectionists--until he found himself...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
xvii, 296 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An unforgettable and stirring memoir in the vein of Free Cyntoia, Just Mercy, and The Sum of Us that both inspires and upends our understanding about the future of policing in the United States. In 2012, nineteen-year-old Leon Ford was shot five times by a Pittsburgh police officer as he was racially profiled during a case of mistaken identity. When he woke up in the hospital, he was faced with two life-changing realities: he was a new father, and...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 652 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author draws on three decades of once secret FBI files to tell the definitive story of Greg Scarpa Sr., a.k.a. the "Grim Reaper," a Mafia capo who "stopped counting" after 50 murders, while secretly betraying a crime family as an informant for the FBI.
