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"How the police endanger us and why we need to find an alternative Recent years have seen an explosion of protest and concern about police brutality and repression--especially after long-held grievances in Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in months of violent protest following the police killing of Brown. Much of the conversation has focused on calls for enhancing police accountability, increasing police diversity, improving police training, and emphasizing...
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Twelve
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"The murder of George Floyd sparked global outrage. At the center of the conflict and the controversy, Keith Ellison grappled with the means of bringing justice for Floyd and his family. Now, in this riveting account of the Derek Chauvin trial, Ellison takes the reader down the path his prosecutors took, offering different breakthroughs and revelations for a defining, generational moment of racial reckoning and social justice understanding"--
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2023.
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English
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"Over the last 60 years, more has been done in Oakland to reform policing than any other American city--and yet, Oakland has failed to reign in the tendencies of its police to prey upon, rather than protect, its communities. Why is this, and what does it mean both for Oakland, and for America? THE RIDERS COME OUT AT NIGHT will be the first authoritative account of the Oakland Police Department's troubling history of violence, secrecy, and mismanagement,...
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ReferencePoint Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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The police hold an extremely powerful role in society, but in recent years there has been increased scrutiny of how they use their power. Through a narrative-driven pro/con format supported by relevant facts, quotes, anecdotes, and full-color illustrations this title examines issues related to police powers. Topics include: Is Abuse of Police Power a Problem in the United States? Can the Use of Excessive Force by the Police Be Reduced? Are Racial...
8) Revisiting Who is guarding the guardians?: a report on police practices and civil rights in America
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The Commission
Pub. Date
[2000]
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English
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Bold Type Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"We are better than this" has been the rallying cry since Donald Trump was elected. But as New York Times-bestselling author Mychal Denzel Smith shows, Americans are too comfortable imagining our greatness. We like to believe in the rightness of our path and the inevitability of choosing our better angels. But historically, we've only come close to living up to the ideals we profess after we've been dragged, kicking and screaming, toward justice....
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815 Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Korean
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Park Gang Yoon, Chief of Investigations, is under suspicion of using brutal and corrupt methods to achieve his unrivalled arrest record. When Choi Min Jae, a young officer from a well-known family of police enters the force, his ethical principles bring him to the attention of the department. He is ordered to join the investigative team, monitor Park's actions and report back. Hesitant at spying on a senior officer, Choi agrees without disclosing...
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"American policing is in crisis. The last decade witnessed a vast increase in police aggression, misconduct, and militarization, along with a corresponding reduction in transparency and accountability. Nowhere is this more noticeable and painful than in African American and other ethnic minority communities. Racism-from raw, individualized versions to insidious systemic examples-appears to be on the rise in our police departments. Overall, our police...
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"The shocking true story of a bizarre kidnapping and the victims' revictimization by the justice system In March 2015, Denise Huskins and her boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, awoke from sound sleep to a nightmare. Armed men bound and drugged them, then abducted Denise and warned Aaron not to call the police or she would be killed. Aaron agonized about what to do. Finally he put his trust in law enforcement and dialed 911. But instead of searching for Denise,...
14) Lakeview Terrace
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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When a newlywed couple becomes the target of their neighbor, a police officer who is harassing them, they decide to fight back.
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Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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“A passionate, incisive critique of the many ways in which women and girls of color are systematically erased or marginalized in discussions of police violence.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow
Invisible No More is a timely examination of how Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color experience racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement. By placing the individual...
Invisible No More is a timely examination of how Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color experience racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement. By placing the individual...
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PBS
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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It's been called the starkest choice in years, between two men with sharply different backgrounds, views, and prescriptions for fixing the country's problems. Mitt Romney and Barack Obama have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to tell their own stories, but in The Choice 2012, FRONTLINE goes far beyond the headlines on a journey deep into their worlds, among their friends and family, critics, and closest colleagues, to understand what drives these...
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Detective Danni Grace has never met a police officer who wants to face a scenario where pulling the trigger on another person is the only option. When the worst does occur and there's a police-involved shooting, it leads to riots and calls to disband the entire police force in La Rosa, Danni's hometown. After fifteen years on the force, Danni has had enough. Injured in the line of duty when a protester throws a chunk of concrete at her and shaken...
18) Fire on the levee: the murder of Henry Glover and the search for justice after Hurricane Katrina
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English
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A former federal prosecutor and founder of Justice Innovation Lab describes his struggles to investigate a mysterious, post-Katrina death in New Orleans that led him to uncover a police shooting and subsequent burning of the victim's body.
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[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Marine Corps veteran Leroy Brown is running to unseat his former field commander Pete Cantrell and become the first Black elected sheriff in his hometown. But he is dismayed to learn that elections he fought in Iraq and Afghanistan to make free and fair are a dysfunctional sham back home in America.
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Women's Murder Club volume 4
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English
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A young girl is killed in crossfire after a routine arrest goes terribly wrong, and Lt. Lindsay Boxer has to defend herself against a charge of police brutality. In a landmark trial that transfixes the nation, Lindsay fights to save her career and her sanity.
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