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Language
English
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The story of "Big Jim" Elkins and Portland's 1950s vice scandal that reached into the highest levels of city government. Follow the story from Elkins arrival in Portland shortly after the end of Prohibition through his televised testimony before Bobby Kennedy and the Senate Rackets Committee.
Author
Publisher
Encounter Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in the largest fifty cities, the biggest one-year increase since 1993. The reason is what Heather Mac Donald first identified nationally as the "Ferguson effect": Since the 2014 police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, officers have been backing off of proactive policing, and criminals are becoming...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
When the cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar escaped his lavish, custom built prison in Colombia, the fallout drove the nation to the brink of chaos. In Killing Pablo, acclaimed journalist Mark Bowden tells the story of the US military's fifteen-month mission to find him. Drawing on unprecedented access to the soldiers, field agents, and officials involved in the chase, as well as hundreds of pages of top-secret documents and transcripts of Escobar's intercepted...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the famous photograph of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on the balcony of Memphis's Lorraine Motel, one man kneeled down beside King, trying to staunch the blood from his fatal head wound with a borrowed towel. This kneeling man was a member of the Invaders, an activist group that was in talks with King in the days leading up to the murder. But he also had another identity: an undercover Memphis police officer reporting on the activities...
6) Policías
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Series
Publisher
ABDO Kids
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Presenta a los jóvenes lectores las responsabilidades de los agentes de policía y el papel que desempeñan en la comunidad.
"Little readers will learn all about what police officers do, where they work, and why they are important in our communities. Very simple text combined with correlating and colorful images will both inform and strengthen reading skills. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards"--Provided by the publisher....
Author
Publisher
Rik's Books
Language
English
Description
Dedication in Memoriam to Inspector John "Two Gun" Powers and Detective/Sergeant John "Jack" Nelson, The Founders of SWAT with introduction to police departments' special weapons and tactics (SWAT) teams, includeing their history, organization, functions, reponsibilities, weapons and equipment.
8) You who know
Author
Series
Henri Castang mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Mysterious/Warner
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
"An acknowledged master . . . writes with heart and unfailing intelligence" in this meditative Inspector Castang mystery about sexual obsession and love (Publishers Weekly).
When Inspector Henri Castang is asked to investigate the death of a colleague and friend, an Irishman whose erratic behavior raises questions about his involvement in the I.R.A., Castang travels through Europe in search of answers. What the detective discovers is a very different...
Author
Publisher
Feral House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Rose City Vice... takes up where the prize-winning Portland Confidential left off, revealing a town where the narcotics cops are the most dangerous drug gang in town, a working majority of the city council is high on coke, and the mayor is carrying on a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old schoolgirl while under surveillance by the vice squad. It's Portland in the '70s, and blackmail is in the air." --
11) Home town
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
Anthony Summers peels back layers of fact and hearsay to reveal the truth about one of the most powerful Americans of the twentieth century No one exemplified paranoia and secrecy at the heart of American power better than J. Edgar Hoover, the original director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. For this consummate biography, renowned investigative journalist Anthony Summers interviewed more than eight hundred witnesses and pored through thousands...
14) Interpol
Author
Series
Publisher
World Almanac Library
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Examines the history, structure, and operation of Interpol, the worlds law-enforcement agency.
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