Blue Lives in Jeopardy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blue Lives in Jeopardy write by Robert Schirn. This book was released on 2019-05-18. Blue Lives in Jeopardy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A major theme in Blue Lives in Jeopardy is the very disturbing trend for law enforcement officers. More and more officers are being systematically targeted for assassination merely because they wear a badge. In some cases, officers are ambushed or taken by surprise with their weapon still in their holster. In chapters three through eight of this book, the victim officers were shot before they could draw their weapon. The most glaring example of an outright assassination was the murder of CHP Officer Thomas Steiner, who was shot by a sixteen-year-old who wanted to impress a street gang he wished to join.Valuable and instructive components of these books are the "Lessons Learned" segments that appear at the end of each chapter. Former LAPD Captain Greg Meyer is one of the nation's foremost experts on police tactics and officer safety, having lectured and provided expert testimony on these topics throughout the country over the years. He has provided his expertise and insights to this book. These reflections can hopefully assist officers in recognizing dangerous situations and enhance officer safety.
Social Q's
Social Q's - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Q's write by Philip Galanes. This book was released on 2012-11-27. Social Q's available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A series of whimsical essays by the New York Times "Social Q's" columnist provides modern advice on navigating today's murky moral waters, sharing recommendations for such everyday situations as texting on the bus to splitting a dinner check.
Faces at the Bottom of the Well
Faces at the Bottom of the Well - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Faces at the Bottom of the Well write by Derrick Bell. This book was released on 2018-10-30. Faces at the Bottom of the Well available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The groundbreaking, "eerily prophetic, almost haunting" work on American racism and the struggle for racial justice (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow). In Faces at the Bottom of the Well, civil rights activist and legal scholar Derrick Bell uses allegory and historical example—including the classic story "The Space Traders"—to argue that racism is an integral and permanent part of American society. African American struggles for equality are doomed to fail, he writes, so long as the majority of whites do not see their own well-being threatened by the status quo. Bell calls on African Americans to face up to this unhappy truth and abandon a misplaced faith in inevitable progress. Only then will blacks, and those whites who join with them, be in a position to create viable strategies to alleviate the burdens of racism. Now with a new foreword by Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, this classic book was a pioneering contribution to critical race theory scholarship, and it remains urgent and essential reading on the problem of racism in America.
There Are Two Sides to Every Story
There Are Two Sides to Every Story - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook There Are Two Sides to Every Story write by Briana Blackwell. This book was released on 2018. There Are Two Sides to Every Story available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the same time that the Black Lives Matter movement has generated national conversation on the question on police and state sanctioned violence, police accountability and transparency, Blue Lives Matter bills have emerged. The Twitter hashtags appearance in December 2014 transformed social media rhetoric into legislation designed to create additional protection for law enforcement. In this thesis, I document the rise and 100% increase of Blue Lives Matter bills between 2016 to 2017, also relying on early appearances of Blue Lives Matter bills in 2015. Using a critical race analysis to explore the racial implications embedded in the bills, I categorize the different sorts of bills that currently exist to expose patterns and trends in this form of legislation across the country. I will analyze what Blue Lives Matter bills are and where these bills currently exist within the United States, explore their language and relation to Black Lives Matter, and the interests the bills serve in protecting officers whose duty is to protect citizens. To date, academics have not yet taken on the issue of Blue Lives Matter legislation, and my research attempts to contribute to this body of scholarly literature as well as reach Black Lives Matter activists through qualitative analysis.
The Black and the Blue
The Black and the Blue - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Black and the Blue write by Matthew Horace. This book was released on 2018-08-07. The Black and the Blue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction "A MUST-READ FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS TO UNDERSTAND THE INTERSECTION OF RACE AND POLICE BRUTALITY IN AMERICA."-CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS During his 28-year career, Matthew Horace rose through the ranks from a police officer working the beat to a federal agent working criminal cases in some of the toughest communities in America to a highly decorated federal law enforcement executive managing high-profile investigations nationwide. Yet it was not until seven years into his service- when Horace found himself face down on the ground with a gun pointed at his head by a white fellow officer-that he fully understood the racism seething within America's police departments. Through gut-wrenching reportage, on-the-ground research, and personal accounts from interviews with police and government officials around the country, Horace presents an insider's examination of archaic police tactics. He dissects some of the nation's most highly publicized police shootings and communities to explain how these systems and tactics have hurt the people they serve, revealing the mistakes that have stoked racist policing, sky-high incarceration rates, and an epidemic of violence. "Horace's authority as an experienced officer, as well as his obvious integrity and courage, provides the book with a gravitas."-THE WASHINGTON POST "The Black and the Blue is an affirmation of the critical need for criminal justice reform, all the more urgent because itcomes from an insider who respects his profession yet is willing to reveal its flaws."-USA TODAY
