Police Corruption

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE The astonishing true story of “one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation” (The New York Times), from the Pulitzer Prize–nominated reporter who exposed a gang of criminal cops and their yearslong plunder of an American city NOW...

Justice Beth Garner (Sanaa Lathan) just landed the appointment of a lifetime—a seat on the Supreme Court. Now a mysterious company is blackmailing her for her vote on a landmark case. Caught up in the checkered past of her hero and mentor, Chief Justice Clayton Erlenborn, Beth must cunningly maneuver through a dangerous web of secrets, deception, and cold-blooded murder. Armed with only her moral compass and unflinching nerve, she’s up against a sinister world full of undercover agents, domestic terrorists, and black ops assassins—all of whom want her to comply or die.

The 3-0 is a thrilling, cat and mouse story that’s based on the true story of the largest police corruption scandal in the history of the New York City Police Department - The Dirty Thirty - It's also a story of bringing a divided community together. The actual events led to the arrest of 33 police officers. The story is set in the 1990’s in the 30th Precinct in Harlem. But the story of “The 3-0” is not just about police corruption. It’s the story of what happens when the social order collapses under the weight of politics, race, fear, drug cartels, illegal immigration, the rights...

How does America, founded on the promise of freedom for all, find itself poised to become a police state? In Police State, legendary "country lawyer" Gerry Spence reveals the unnerving truth of our criminal justice system. In his more than sixty years in the courtroom, Spence has never...

Harry Sanders is found dead in a derelict pub. The authorities call it a tragic accident, but Victor recognises the signs of something far more sinister. He knew Harry from his own days on the streets—and Harry had been scared, convinced someone was following him. Working with private investigators Kasper and Zofia Dąbrowski, Victor inherits Harry’s dog, Cleo, causing friction with Oscar, his own wilful dog, and uncovers a disturbing pattern. Homeless men with dogs are disappearing across the city.

An urgent and definitive examination of how the legal system prevents accountability for police misconduct, from one of the country's leading scholars on policing In recent years, the high-profile murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and so many others have brought much-needed attention to...

L.A. Secret Police. Inside the LAPD Elite Spy Network is a New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller. This incredible non-fiction book rips the lid off the LAPD and exposes the reader to its dark underbelly of corruption during the reign of Chief Daryl Gates. L.A. cops ruined lives and reputations, inflicted mindless brutality, committed murder and engaged in massive cover-ups. In Los Angeles, police corruption was much more than unmarked envelopes stuffed with cash. It was a total corruption of power. For decades LAPD engaged in massive illegal spying and lied about it. Its spying ...

Former Chicago police officer and Outfit associate Fred Pascente is the man who links Tony Spilotro, one of Chicago's most notorious mob figures, to William Hanhardt, chief of detectives in the Chicago Police Department. Pascente and Spilotro grew up together on Chicago's Near West Side, and as young toughs they were rousted and shaken down by Hanhardt.

A New York Times bestseller! The gripping story of Whitey Bulger, the mobster turned FBI informant responsible for the worst crime spree Boston has ever seen. “A powerhouse of a book. Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill ... write like veteran novelists, weaving scene after jaw-dropping scene into a...

Exiled from Glasgow for exposing corruption, DI Sarah Lynch was sent to Fort William as punishment. The remote Scottish Highlands were meant to end her career. Instead, they became her purpose. From dark lochs to frozen peaks, from burning moorland to ancient forests, DI Sarah Lynch investigates murders that the powerful want buried. Each case transforms her—from bitter outsider to Highland protector, from exile to home. This complete six-book series includes over 180,000 words of atmospheric British crime fiction: 📖 THE DARK LOCH - A body in the water exposes illegal poaching and ...

Eleven minutes are missing. An innocent young man may lose his future because of them. At 2:11 a.m., during a night of flooding in Coral Shore, Officer Nolan Pierce is shot inside a municipal parking garage. By sunrise, the city believes it knows who killed him. Jaylen Cole is eighteen years old. He has no criminal record. No gun is recovered from him. No physical evidence places a weapon in his hands. But he was near the garage. A frightened witness identified him. And a grieving police department is under enormous pressure to arrest someone before the officer’s death becomes a public ...

In 1961, 25-year-old Herbert Jay Stern, fresh from reserve duty, stood in his green army uniform in a New York County courtroom to be sworn in as an attorney. He could only guess what his life as a prosecuting lawyer would be. A dozen years later, in the wake of the national scandal of Watergate, Stern, draped in black robes now, would take the oath of office as a federal judge. In the years between, the idealistic young Stern would sharpen his skills in the realities of the criminal courts of New York City, to emerge as the lead trial attorney for the Justice Department....

In Team Dog, Mike taps into fifteen years' worth of experience and shares, in accessible and direct language, the science behind the importance of gaining a dog's trust. He also offers invaluable steps for achieving any level of obedience. His unique approach incorporates entertaining examples and anecdotes from his work with dogs on and off the battlefield and tips from the Navy SEAL guidebook.

NYPD officers Mike Dowd and Kenny Eurell knew there were two ways to get rich quick in Brooklyn's Lower East Side. You either became drug dealers, or you robbed drug dealers. They decided to do both. Dowd and Eurell ran the most powerful gang in New York's dangerous 75th Precinct, the crack cocaine capitol of 1980s America.

Over 120,000 words of Australian crime thriller brilliance. The complete Kate Hayes journey—six books, six years, one detective who refuses to let corruption win. For fans of Jane Harper, Tana French, and C.J. Box. In the unforgiving Australian outback, Detective Kate Hayes discovers a truth that will destroy her career: Protocol Seven, a government surveillance programme designed to eliminate threats and silence whistleblowers. Exposing it costs her everything. But Kate doesn't stop. This complete six-book series follows Kate's relentless pursuit of justice through: THE RED DESERT - ...

A body no one reported missing. A crime no one investigated. DCI David Garrick is about to uncover the truth someone buried for years. But this case isn’t just hidden. It’s protected. As Garrick digs deeper, he finds a web of silence, corruption, and quiet complicity—where the wrong question could get him killed. And this time, the danger isn’t just on the streets. It’s everywhere. Perfect for fans of fast-paced British crime thrillers. The Dead Don’t Pay is the sixth gripping installment in the DCI Garrick series, perfect for fans of Peter James, JD Kirk, and Val McDermid. ...

Officer Kim Parsons saw too much. Now her brothers in blue want her dead. She barely survives a bloody takedown on a deserted Jersey street. By dawn, she expects a commendation. Instead, she’s offered a seat on a covert task force that launders money and buries bodies. They want her silent, obedient… useful. Kim refuses. Hours later, she’s no longer a cop—she’s a target. Forced off the grid and bleeding, she stumbles into a dim bar owned by Eli, a quiet stranger with shadows of his own. But before Kim can catch her breath, she’s framed for murder, her badge revoked, her name ...

"Something clearly stinks in how police handled this case." - Tony Serra, famed Civil Rights Attorney Andy Kinyon was a gifted salesman, a hustler in the best sense of the word. He became the top earner for the publisher of LOOK Magazine at the age of 22 in 1965. That same year, he befriended notable figures like Ken Kesey, Owsley Stanley, and Jerry Garcia. Andy was among the first to join the counter-culture movement in Haight-Ashbury and worked for Bill Graham and Chet Helms, conducting psychedelic light shows for performances by Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, and many others. ...

In the heart of Philadelphia, five powerful Black men wear five different masks—a preacher, a politician, a policeman, a pimp, and a professor. To the public, they look like leaders, protectors, providers, and thinkers. But behind church doors, city offices, police files, velvet-draped lounges, and university walls, each man is hiding secrets that could destroy far more than his reputation. Paloma Reed has made a name for herself fighting for the people—speaking up for the displaced, helping vulnerable women escape dangerous men, and asking hard questions nobody in power wants answered....

In Atlanta, silence is survival. But breaking it might save them all. At Queen’s Crown Salon, every style comes with a story—and some stories are dangerous to tell. When women start vanishing and the city’s most powerful police family closes ranks, salon owner Quanda and her circle of stylists refuse to stay quiet. As secrets unravel and danger creeps closer, Tasha, Roxie, and their found family must risk everything to protect each other—and to expose the truth behind the Rivers dynasty’s legacy of corruption. Detective Vega and Officer Rodriguez are determined to break the cycle,...