Police Shootings

On a rainy winter night, James Bowden Jr. left his mother’s house in Roxbury after a visit. As he guided his Buick out of his parking spot, an unmarked police car suddenly blocked his path. Two undercover officers sprang out, running toward his car. Shots were fired, and Bowden slumped over the wheel. Moments later, he was pronounced dead on arrival at a nearby hospital.

Does physically surviving a gunfight mean you won? Not by a long shot. Many people survive gunfights. In fact, most people who are in a gunfight survive. But there’s a difference between surviving and winning. Surviving means you continue to exist. Continuing to exist and winning are not the same. Career police officer and author Tim Rupp has been on both sides of a gunfight—being investigated after being in a gunfight and investigating citizens and officers who have been in shootings. Drawing from personal and professional experiences as a patrol officer, homicide detective, and police...

Sometimes trouble follows a man. Sometimes a man has to go looking for it. The Chinese foreign minister is speaking at a Bangkok university, and there's a diplomatic reception for him before the speech. Like most diplomatic receptions, it's an occasion that's dull as dishwater. Until it isn't. The assembled diplomats discover the main doors of the reception hall have been locked. That's when a masked gunman comes in through the back and opens up with a silenced MP5. It's like shooting the proverbial fish in the proverbial barrel. Thirteen dead and nine wounded, including the British ...

DCI Harry Grimm has a sneaking suspicion the bleak Yorkshire Dales are growing on him. Though shadows from his big-city past still loom, he’s finding his place among the quirky townsfolk and their eccentric eating habits. But his gruesome crime scene expertise takes center stage when a successful visiting author is found dead. Investigating the cantankerous writer’s entourage, Grimm lines up too many suspects with motives for murder. But with the evidence not adding up and the press piling on relentless pressure, the determined policeman could end up facing his own final chapter.

Adam Plantinga, author of the acclaimed 400 Things Cops Know and a 17-year veteran sergeant with the San Francisco Police Department, gives an inside view of the police officer's job, from handling evidence and conducting interrogations to coping with danger, violence, and death. Not hesitating to confront controversial issues, Plantinga presents the police officer's views on police shootings, racial profiling, and relationships between police and the community.

True Crime in Cook County: Stories of Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem in America’s Second City From gangsters and massacres to unsolved mysteries and wrongful convictions... Cook County’s darkest stories are revealed. Chicago has always lived in two worlds: the city of bright lights and ambition, and the shadow city of crime and corruption. True Crime in Cook County takes you on a gripping journey through more than a century of the county’s most infamous cases. 📖 Inside you’ll discover: The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1929) that defined gangster-era Chicago. The shocking Our Lady...

Alien invaders take one of America’s most contentious issues, Gun Control, and use it for their interest.

Why do some police encounters end in death? The issue with law enforcement misconduct involves the loss of control. The loss of life may occur because citizens fail to respond to the officer in a manner to eliminate the officer’s fears. Police encounter that end with unnecessary violence is similar to “Domestic violence” or abuse stemming from a desire to gain and maintain power and control. In the domestic situation the individual does not know how to control anger, they lose control of their anger. Often people of authority believe they have the right to control and restrict ...

Agent Walker drops his beloved goddaughter off at the same school where minutes later a shooter begins the devil’s work. Lori Page, an FBI profiler, spots a boy on a bus who’s acting strange. When he disembarks, she notices what appears to be a rifle in his backpack. Suspicions triggered and her instincts screaming, she follows him into his school where all hell breaks loose. Intrigued by the weird behavior of a mysterious beauty, Beau follows her into the building and they both find themselves at the same crime scene. He eventually pairs up with this fascinating woman to stop the ...

As summer winds down in Chicago's Levee District, the crime rate continues to soar. With the murder of an entire prominent family, in what appears to be a robbery, Patrick Moses must look for a killer who had left very few clues. With the prosecution of the Old Lady Murders still looming, Moses finds his time is limited and his nerves are frayed. On top of that, someone has started brutally murdering Chicago's street cops.

"The gritty, first-person narrative drives the reader back into their seats and is compelled to read more about Patrick Moses and his partner, Krause." –A Reader's Heaven After a shocking kidnapping case in New York City, Patrick Moses is summoned back to Chicago to help on an equally disturbing matter. Someone is murdering older women, using their own bed sheets to tie and bind them while suffocating them with their pillow stuffings. Other than similarities in the cases, there are no hard clues. What Patrick does find is that his old nemesis Christian Hanson is back in Chicago, operating...

Get a deeper understanding of police shootings through interviews with officers involved in real-life cases. Today’s media is filled with discussions about officer-involved shootings. Too often missing from that discussion are the police officers’ voices and the reality of what happens in actual shooting incidents. Through actual interviews with involved officers, this book addresses common myths and misunderstandings about these shootings. Shots Fired is a journey “behind the shield” and the experiences of the real human beings behind the badge.

When a massacre at an elite private high school leaves 17 dead and a city reeling with horror, Philadelphia assistant district attorney Jessica Black will stop at nothing to find justice for the victims. But doing so will require facing an adversary even more terrifying than the teenage shooter.

Broken and Blue: A Policeman’s Guide To Health, Hope, and Healing by Chief Scott Silverii is a heartfelt and powerful testimonial of a law enforcement officer’s journey through the darkest valleys of anxiety, pain, and PTSD. With over 25 years of service, Chief Silverii shares his personal struggles and the toll that a career in policing can take on one’s mental and emotional health. This book is not just a recount of hardships but a beacon of hope and a guide to healing. Chief Silverii opens up about his path to recovery, offering practical advice and spiritual insights that helped ...

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 he was paralyzed from the waist down. Now, in this memoir and manifesto, Leon illustrates how this harrowing experience has inspired a deep reckoning with the issues his community is facing.

News of the sudden death of his childhood friend compels Jono Riley, an aging bartender and part-time actor, to return for a few days to the place where he grew up, the working-class neighborhoods of East Providence, Rhode Island. Author McLarty weaves the story of Jono's return with that of his coming-of-age in the early 1960s, including the story of some mysterious shootings.

Neuer Bayernkrimi. Eine Leich'! - Und die ausgerechnet im Gelände des Weinbaumuseums im beschaulichen Winzerort Bach an der Donau! Wer hat die junge Frau, die dort tot unter Blauburgunder- und Silvanerreben aufgefunden wird, zu Tode gewürgt und sich nicht einmal die Mühe gemacht, sie zu verstecken? Und warum, zum Teufel, hat jeder der Verdächtigen offensichtlich ein wasserdichtes Alibi? Als hätte Hauptkommissar Hinterdobler nicht schon genug zu tun, genau dies herauszufinden, macht ihm Exfrau Rosi zusätzlich wegen der gemeinsamen Tochter Franzi Schwierigkeiten.

Ein Rüscherl, eine Wildsau und zwei Tote... Der dritte Fall für Hauptkommissar Toni !Hinterdobler". Ein bayerischer Provinzkrimi. Berta und Fanny, zwei befreundete Bewohnerinnen der noblen Seniorenresidenz im Wörther Schloss, treffen sich jeden Mittwochnachmittag Punkt fünfzehn Uhr mit Otto, einem rüstigen Rentner und ebenfalls Bewohner des Heims, zum Kaffeeklatsch. Diesmal aber bricht Otto tot am Tisch zusammen.

Der Messermord an einem jungen Mädchen zwingt Hauptkommissar Toni Hinterdobler diesmal, in den Trachten- und Kulturvereinen der Umgebung zu ermitteln. Und das mit einer neuen Kollegin, die von bayerischen Bräuchen und Traditionen so wenig Ahnung hat wie er von TikTok. Der neue Bayernkrimi von Martina Schmid Die beschauliche Ruhe in dem idyllischen kleinen Ort an der Donau wird jäh durch einen grausamen Mord gestört. Eine junge Frau wird mit tödlichen Stichverletzungen in einem Straßengraben aufgefunden.

Stu Friedman is a highly decorated Detective Sergeant who worked in the NYC Transit Police and NYPD. He worked plainclothes, undercover, was a detective and detective supervisor in numerous units. In his 23 years of service, he was shot, stabbed and had broken bones. A bullet remains lodged in his chest to this day. At age 22, he was the youngest member of the department to ever receive the prestigious Police Combat Cross. He was also the recipient of the Medal for Valor on two occasions, in addition to other department awards and citations. In 1986 he was recognized as the Jewish Cop of ...