Police Mental

She looks exactly like me. Same face, same scar, same life. And now she's stealing everything that's mine. When Madisyn Holmes moves in across the street, I can't shake the feeling that this isn't coincidence. She copies my garden design, my home décor, even my professional strategies. It's like watching someone erase me in real time. My husband thinks I'm paranoid. My neighbors think I'm losing it. But I know what I'm seeing. I start gathering evidence—photos, notes, proof of her systematic theft. Because someone has to stop her before she takes everything. The question is: how far will...

Police Mental Barricade: A Survivor's Guide to Poor Law Enforcement Leadership is a raw and unfiltered look into what is causing the growing epidemic of suicides within the profession. Last year, Blue Help reported 228 (known) suicides within the law enforcement profession. This is compared to the 147 killed in the line of duty.

Prepare for success in law enforcement with 'Pass the Police Exam: Your Path to Success on the Law Enforcement Test.' This comprehensive study guide covers all the essential topics you need to master to pass your law enforcement exam and embark on a fulfilling career in policing. Delve into crucial subjects such as Law Enforcement Procedures and Practices, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, and Constitutional Law and Civil Rights. Gain insights into Patrol Operations and Tactics, Use of Force and Defensive Tactics, and Emergency Response and Crisis Management to navigate challenging ...

Join Dr. Andy Young on an “up close and personal” journey into the world of crisis negotiation. Experience a 360-degree panorama of hostage situations from the vantage points of SWAT teams, police, victims, the bad guys, and the specially trained mental health professionals who help save lives and bring relief to the extreme distress that comes with the trauma of crisis. Aside from the drama, danger, tension, and terror of crisis situations, the crux of this book is a profound and deeply human story of real people and real stories—perpetrators, victims, law enforcement, and families...

Once a job of serving their community by providing safety, police officers could rest relatively easy knowing their efforts were worth the sacrifice. However, over the past decade, the trade-offs between the rewards and risks of policing have increasingly sloped toward the latter. Today, officers are routinely being confronted with more pressure and scrutiny because of unfortunate bad actions by a few of their own. Then they still encounter constant threats of danger, and continued exposure to the darkest corners of society.

On one of those magically white winter nights, my mother took me in her arms and shut the doors behind her. We left my drunken father in the name of a better life. And the name of that better life was Tom, a local gangster with the face of the devil himself. I remember looking at my mother's bloody face bashed into the ground, teeth scattered around her limp body. I understood then that one of us was going to die. Fortunately, I was right!

From Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Hunter, a New York Times bestselling novel that “proves anew that [Tana French] is one of the most talented crime writers alive” (The Washington Post). “Required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and...

A stand-alone murder mystery featuring DCI Peter Hatherall. A young mother brutally stabbed in a busy park in front of her son. A paperboy shot in an isolated farmhouse twenty-four years previously. DI Fiona Williams is baffled when her senior officer, DCI Peter Hatherall makes a connection between the two cases. As details of Hatherall's involvement in the old case emerge, her loyalty is tested to breaking point and she starts to question his decisions. When the murdered woman's son goes missing the time for hesitating is over.

This is Volume 2 to the best-selling book Police mental barricade, rated top 100 law enforcement books of all time by Goodreads.com. Police Mental Barricade: A Survivor's Guide to Poor Law Enforcement Leadership is a raw and unfiltered look into what is causing the growing epidemic of suicides within the profession. Last year, Blue Help reported 228 (known) suicides within the law enforcement profession. This is compared to the 147 killed in the line of duty. We are losing more officers at their own hands than we are to deaths on the job. Why? Partially, this is from poor leadership within ...

"Blacks are 13% but commit half of the crime!" Using statistics, facts, charts, arguments never heard before, and common sense, this book factually challenges many firmly held beliefs, such as “Blacks make up 13% of the population but commit half of the violent crimes.” Offering a comprehensive examination of street crime in America's inner cities, it navigates diverse topics with clarity. Drawing from various disciplines, the author explores how mental illness, systemic racism, black apathy, drugs, family breakdown, American values, and the financial gains from illicit activities fuel ...

A real-life Talented Mr. Ripley, the unbelievable thirty-year run of a shape-shifting con man.The story of Clark Rockefeller is a stranger-than-fiction twist on the classic American success story of the self-made man-because Clark Rockefeller was totally made up. The career con man who...

When a young red-haired woman is found brutally murdered in downtown Chicago, one detail stands out: the red lipstick encircling her wrists and ankles. Detective Harriet Foster is on the case, even though she’s still grieving the sudden death of her partner. As a Black woman in a male-dominated department, Foster anticipates a rocky road ahead acclimating to a new team—and building trust with her new partner isn’t coming easily. After another victim turns up with the same lipstick markings, Foster suspects she’s looking for a serial killer.

Resilience Behind the Badge is a comprehensive and unflinching exploration into the inner world of those who serve and protect. This groundbreaking book delves beyond the surface of law enforcement to expose the emotional, cognitive, and psychological challenges that officers face—both on and off duty and at the deepest levels. By covering a wide range of topics, it ensures that readers are fully informed and equipped to understand and address the complexities of law enforcement. Through 21 compelling and expertly crafted chapters, the book reveals what lies beneath the uniform: the ...

Taking place on a peaceful Wyoming ranch, this tale of love follows a brave pilot who confronts his personal struggles and finds forever in his soulmate. Sometimes the monsters are in your head... Xander ‘Panic’ Isaacs was always cool under pressure. His call sign had been a joke among the other pilots because nothing fazed him… until now. When even the bravest among the team shatters under pressure, they give a chance to one broken Flyboy to pick up the pieces in Wyoming. And sometimes you are trying to hide from them... Lyndsey is a forensic scientist and wants to testify for a ...

The stirring memoir of Harry Dunn, a Capitol Police Officer on duty January 6th, who has become one of the most prominent and essential voices regarding the truth of that day. Walking the halls of democracy as a Capitol Police officer, Harry Dunn was a man slowly experiencing an awakening. It...

2020 J. ANTHONY LUKAS PRIZE WINNER From the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait of love and death in Chicago's most turbulent neighborhoods. The numbers are staggering: over the past twenty years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been killed...

Things are more complicated than they seam as the suspense builds in this wry and enjoyable police procedural. When Santa Fe police chief Kevin Kerney finds the dead body of hotel magnate Clifford Spalding at a mountain ranch, he has a pretty good idea about who to talk to; the list of suspects isn't long. Spalding had a devious wife who was cheating on him with a known thug, and an embittered ex-wife with mental problems.

What does it take to prepare for a law enforcement promotional process? What do you study? What if it's not all about department policy and more about techniques? This book will help prepare you for how to take a promotional process and teach you techniques to gain an edge over others taking the process. Don't just rely on department policy and notes passed down from officer to officer.

Our profession is under attack but not from the public or anti-police movement. Our culture within our law enforcement agenices is what is slowly killing the job. This book takes you inside law enforcement agenices and how the internal politics and poor leadership decisions have made the job so difficult that officers are leaving in record numbers.

Compton Castle is a Victorian psychiatric hospital long overdue for demolition. Its warrens of rooms and acres of grounds originally designed as a sanctuary for the mentally ill, now provide the ideal stalking ground for a serial killer. Physically and mentally battered after his last case, Sergeant Trevor Joseph is a temporary inmate – but the hospital loses all therapeutic benefit when a corpse is dug out of a flowerbed. Then more bodies are found; young, female and both linked to the hospital. Everyone within the mouldering walls is in danger while a highly unpredictable malevolence ...