police corruption

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police corruption

11th hour

2012
Detective Lindsay Boxer must investigate a murder that could include any of her friends as the killer. At the same time she is under attack in the press and must also take care of her unborn child.

Policing the police

1995
Presents different points of view about police conduct, including brutality, corruption, and reform.

Police misconduct in America

a reference handbook
2001
Traces the history of police misconduct in America, reviews issues and controversies related to the problem, and includes a chronology of events, biographical sketches of activists, advocates, and legislators, summaries of U.S. Supreme Court cases, and lists of related agencies and resources.

Tulia

race, cocaine, and corruption in a small Texas town
2005
Recounts the true story of the 1999 scandal in the small Texas town of Tulia, where more than forty African-American men and women were arrested for dealing drugs and later convicted based soley on the testimony of an undercover officer who was later exposed as a liar.

Breaking blue

1996
Tells the true story of how Tony Bamonte, sheriff of Pend Oreille County, Washington, solved a murder after fifty years of police cover-ups.

Police corruption

2003
Contains fifteen essays presenting opposing views on the extent and causes of police corruption.

Weeks v. United States

illegal search and seizure
2000
Examines the case of Weeks v. United States, in which a Kansas City man claimed the police unlawfully searched his home.

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