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Serpico

Author : Peter Maas
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060738189
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Serpico written by Peter Maas and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-01-04 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1960s was a time of social and generational upheaval felt with particular intensity in the melting pot of New York City. A culture of corruption pervaded the New York Police Department, where payoffs, protection, and shakedowns of gambling rackets and drug dealers were common practice. The so-called blue code of silence protected the minority of crooked cops from the sanction of the majority. Into this maelstrom came a working class, Brooklyn-born, Italian cop with long hair, a beard, and a taste for opera and ballet. Frank Serpico was a man who couldn't be silenced -- or bought -- and he refused to go along with the system. He had sworn an oath to uphold the law, even if the perpetrators happened to be other cops. For this unwavering commitment to justice, Serpico nearly paid with his life.

Frank Serpico

Author : Riccardo Lo Faro
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781725794368
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (943 download)

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Download or read book Frank Serpico written by Riccardo Lo Faro and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-12 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's a must-read conversation with celebrated former New York City Police Detective Frank Serpico. Serpico is the detective who went undercover to expose corruption in the New York City Police Department and was shot in the face. After 44 years this Medal of Honor Police Detective still carries a bullet in his head. Motivational and inspiring short-story e.Books by author Riccardo Lo Faro for the PrimiDieci Society.

They Wished They Were Honest

Author : Michael F. Armstrong
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231526989
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book They Wished They Were Honest written by Michael F. Armstrong and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In fifty years of prosecuting and defending criminal cases in New York City and elsewhere,Michael F. Armstrong has often dealt with cops. For a single two-year span, as chief counsel to the Knapp Commission, he was charged with investigating them. Based on Armstrong's vivid recollections of this watershed moment in law enforcement accountability—prompted by the New York Times's report on whistleblower cop Frank Serpico—They Wished They Were Honest recreates the dramatic struggles and significance of the Commission and explores the factors that led to its success and the restoration of the NYPD's public image. Serpico's charges against the NYPD encouraged Mayor John Lindsay to appoint prominent attorney Whitman Knapp to chair a Citizen's Commission on police graft. Overcoming a number of organizational, budgetary, and political hurdles, Chief Counsel Armstrong cobbled together an investigative group of a half-dozen lawyers and a dozen agents. Just when funding was about to run out, the "blue wall of silence" collapsed. A flamboyant "Madame," a corrupt lawyer, and a weasely informant led to a "super thief" cop, who was trapped and "turned" by the Commission. This led to sensational and revelatory hearings, which publicly refuted the notion that departmental corruption was limited to only a "few rotten apples." In the course of his narrative, Armstrong illuminates police investigative strategy; governmental and departmental political maneuvering; ethical and philosophical issues in law enforcement; the efficacy (or lack thereof) of the police's anticorruption efforts; the effectiveness of the training of police officers; the psychological and emotional pressures that lead to corruption; and the effects of police criminality on individuals and society. He concludes with the effects, in today's world, of Knapp and succeeding investigations into police corruption and the value of permanent outside monitoring bodies, such as the special prosecutor's office, formed in response to the Commission's recommendation, as well as the current monitoring commission, of which Armstrong is chairman.

The Thin Blue Lie

Author : Greg Dillon
Publisher : Bombardier Books
ISBN 13 : 1642936863
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book The Thin Blue Lie written by Greg Dillon and published by Bombardier Books. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Greg Dillon is assigned to a federal fugitive task force in Connecticut, he inadvertently uncovers a pattern of misconduct and falsified affidavits. After reporting his concerns to the politically connected but incompetent chief state’s attorney, the whistleblower finds himself a target of reprisal. Investigated, transferred, demoted, and threatened, Dillon hires an attorney, and—with the assistance of legendary whistleblower Frank Serpico—takes on both the state of Connecticut and the Department of Justice in federal court, resulting in an explosive verdict and a significant court ruling. 10 percent of the author’s profits will be donated to Shepherds.

The Knapp Commission Report on Police Corruption

Author : New York (N.Y.). Knapp Commission
Publisher : George Braziller
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Knapp Commission Report on Police Corruption written by New York (N.Y.). Knapp Commission and published by George Braziller. This book was released on 1973 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Americans Who Tell the Truth

Author : Robert Shetterly
Publisher : Paw Prints
ISBN 13 : 9781442028708
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Americans Who Tell the Truth written by Robert Shetterly and published by Paw Prints. This book was released on 2009-07-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features quotes, biographies, and portraits of powerful and influential Americans, including Rachel Carson, Rosa Parks, and Mark Twain, who used the power of truth combined with freedom of speech to challenge the system and inspire change. Reprint.

Blue Blood

Author : Edward Conlon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1594480737
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (944 download)

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Download or read book Blue Blood written by Edward Conlon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-04-05 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A great book... with the testimonial force equal to that of Michael Herr's Dispatches."—Time Edward Conlon's Blue Blood is an ambitious and extraordinary work of nonfiction about what it means to protect, to serve, and to defend among the ranks of New York's finest. Told by a fourth generation NYPD, this is an anecdotal history of New York as experienced through its police force, and depicts a portrait of the teeming street life of the city in all its horror and splendor. It is a story about police politics, fathers and sons, partners who become brothers, old ghosts and undying legacies. Conlon joined the NYPD during the Giuliani administration, when New York City saw its crime rate plummet but also witnessed events that would alter the city, its inhabitants, and its police force forever: polarizing racial cases, the proliferation of the drug trade, and the events of September 11, 2001, and its aftermath. Conlon captures the detail of the landscape, the ironies and rhythms of natural speech, the tragic and the marvelous, firsthand, day after day. A New York Times Notable Book and Finalist for The National Book Criticics Circle Award for Nonfiction.

Good Cop, Bad Cop

Author : Joseph Trimboli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780671897352
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (973 download)

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Download or read book Good Cop, Bad Cop written by Joseph Trimboli and published by . This book was released on 1996-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning journalist Mike McAlary comes an unforgettable account of the worst case of police corruption to rock New York since Frank Serpico testified before the Knapp Commission in 1972. McAlary tells the compelling story of a rare, untainted police officer named Det. Sgt. Joseph Trimboli--a man willing to sacrifice everything to put a rogue cop away. Photo insert.

Iron Men in Blue

Author : Arthur Cesare
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781544137506
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Iron Men in Blue written by Arthur Cesare and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-22 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iron Men in Blue is about policemen. What they feel, what they think, why they act the way they do. I used the actual experiences that occurred to me to who what police work is about. I'm trying to educate the public so that they will have a better understanding of police work and the men and women that make up the police department.

Blue on Blue

Author : Charles Campisi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501127217
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Blue on Blue written by Charles Campisi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one of the most illuminating portraits of police work ever, Chief Charles Campisi describes the inner workings of the world’s largest police force and his unprecedented career putting bad cops behind bars. “Compelling, educational, memorable…this superb memoir can be read for its sheer entertainment or as a primer on police work—or both” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). From 1996 to 2014 Charles Campisi headed NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau, working under four police commissioners and gaining a reputation as hard-nosed and incorruptible. During Campisi’s IAB tenure, the number of New Yorkers shot, wounded, or killed by cops every year declined by ninety percent, and the number of cops failing integrity tests shrank to an equally startling low. But to achieve those exemplary results, Campisi had to triple IAB’s staff, hire the very best detectives, and put the word out that corruption wouldn’t be tolerated. Blue on Blue provides “a rare glimpse inside one of the most secretive branches of policing…and a compelling, behind-the-scenes account of what it takes to investigate police officers who cross the line between guardians of the public to criminals. It’s a mesmerizing exposé on the harsh realities and complexities of being a cop on the mean streets of New York City and the challenges of enforcing the law while at the same time obeying it” (The New York Journal of Books). Campisi allows us to listen in on wiretaps and feel the adrenaline rush of drawing in the net. It also reveals new threats to the force, such as the possibility of infiltration by terrorists. “A lively memoir [told with] verve, intriguing detail, and a generous heart” (The Wall Street Journal) and “an expose of the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureaus [that is] enlightening and entertaining” (The New York Times Book Review), Blue on Blue will forever change the way you view police work.

Crusader

Author : James Lardner
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crusader written by James Lardner and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1996 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As soon as he joined the force, David Durk discovered the New York City Police Department rife with corruption--from routine gambling payoffs to cops dealing drugs. Along with Frank Serpico, he devised and executed a plan to blow the whistle and rid the department of the bad cops, sacrificing his career and financial security.

Breaking the Blue Wall

Author : Justin Hopson
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 144970378X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Breaking the Blue Wall written by Justin Hopson and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As a New Jersey State Trooper, Justin Hopson diligently exposed government and police corruption."--Dust jacket.

A Heartbeat and a Guitar

Author : Antonino D'Ambrosio
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1568586078
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book A Heartbeat and a Guitar written by Antonino D'Ambrosio and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Heartbeat and a Guitar tells of the collaboration of two distinct yet connected musicians--iconoclast Johnny Cash and pioneering folk artist Peter La Farge-- Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian, the album that influenced the likes of Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan. In this intimate portrayal of the two musicians, D'Ambrosio interviewed surviving members of Cash's band, his producers, and admirers Pete Seeger and Kris Kristofferson. He renders a dramatic picture of both an era of radical protest and the making of one of the most controversial and enduring works of political pop art of the 1960s. A Heartbeat and a Guitar is the inspiration for the new album "Look Again to the Wind: Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears revisited" featuring a collective of top Americana artists including Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Gillian Welch, and Kris Kristofferson.

The Year We Disappeared

Author : Cylin Busby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1599908077
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book The Year We Disappeared written by Cylin Busby and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-04-10 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Cylin Busby was nine years old, she was obsessed with Izod clothing, the Muppets, and a box turtle she kept in a shoebox. Then everything changed overnight. Her police officer father, John, was driving to his shift when someone leveled a shotgun at his window. The blasts that followed left John's jaw on the passenger seat of his car-literally. While clinging to life, he managed to write down the name of the only person he thought could have pulled the trigger. The suspect? A local ex-con with rumored mob connections. The motive? Officer Busby was scheduled to testify against the suspect's family in an upcoming trial. Overnight, the Busbys went from being the "family next door" to one under 24-hour armed guard, with police escorts to school, and no contact with friends. Worse, the shooter was still on the loose, and it seemed only a matter of time before he'd come after John-or someone else in the family-again. With few choices left to them, the Busby family went into hiding, severing all ties to the only life they had known.

Sidney Lumet

Author : Maura Spiegel
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250030145
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Sidney Lumet written by Maura Spiegel and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-ever biography of the seminal American director whose remarkable life traces a line through American entertainment history Acclaimed as the ultimate New York movie director, Sidney Lumet began his astonishing five-decades-long directing career with the now classic 12 Angry Men, followed by such landmark films as Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, and Network. His remarkably varied output included award-winning adaptations of plays by Anton Chekhov, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, and Eugene O’Neill, whose Long Day’s Journey into Night featured Katharine Hepburn and Ralph Richardson in their most devastating performances. Renowned as an “actor’s director,” Lumet attracted an unmatched roster of stars, among them: Henry Fonda, Sophia Loren, Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Sean Connery, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Newman, Al Pacino, Ethan Hawke, and Philip-Seymour Hoffman, accruing eighteen Oscar nods for his actors along the way. With the help of exclusive interviews with family, colleagues, and friends, author Maura Spiegel provides a vibrant portrait of the life and work of this extraordinary director whose influence is felt through generations, and takes us inside the Federal Theater, the Group Theatre, the Actors Studio, and the early “golden age” of television. From his surprising personal life, with four marriages to remarkable women—all of whom opened their living rooms to Lumet’s world of artists and performers like Marilyn Monroe and Michael Jackson—to the world of Yiddish theater and Broadway spectacles, Sidney Lumet: A Life is a book that anyone interested in American film of the twentieth century will not want to miss.

Good Cop, Bad Cop

Author : Mike McAlary
Publisher : Atria Books
ISBN 13 : 9780671897369
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (973 download)

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Download or read book Good Cop, Bad Cop written by Mike McAlary and published by Atria Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an account of police corruption involving a system of bribery and drug dealing

The 100 Kilo Case

Author : James Durney
Publisher : Hachette Books Ireland
ISBN 13 : 1473636590
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book The 100 Kilo Case written by James Durney and published by Hachette Books Ireland. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Bizarre, dramatic, often funny and never less than compelling' Irish Independent Peter Daly was nineteen when he left Donegal, bound for America. Nine years later, in 1961, following a stint with the US Army, he joined the New York Police Department. His beat was the Lower East Side of Manhattan during one of the worst crime-waves in the city and, determined to make his mark, Daly was quickly earmarked for promotion to the Special Investigating Unit - the Princes of the City. The SIU played by its own rules and answered to nobody and, in 1970, at the pinnacle of his career, Daly made one of the department's biggest drug bust: 105 kilos of pure heroin and cocaine. But only 100 kilos was surrendered ... From his remarkable rise within the NYPD to his time served in Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary on 'Mafia' Row with some of the most notorious gangsters in American history, including the Lufthansa robber Jimmy 'the Gent' Burke, Benny Ong, 'Godfather of Chinatown', and New York wiseguy Charlie Brody, Peter Daly's story is the stuff of Hollywood scriptwriters. The only thing is: it is true. 'Of course, I was dishonest, but you have to make your own judgement. I was brought up to know right from wrong. My regrets are innumerable. It is all part of life. But I would die rather than inform on my police friends. The oath of office I took included loyalty. I gave up my family, my life and all that it meant to me ...' Peter Daly