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The torture machine

racism and police violence in Chicago
2019
Examines police violence and race discrimination in Chicago since 1969.

Serpico

A New York policeman, trying to perform his job with integrity, becomes disillusioned with the graft engaged in by his fellow officers and officials.

Tears of a hustler

Ali is a drug dealer/businessman who tries to change the way the game is played by giving back to the community. But at the same time he has to keep a close eye on his childhood crime-partner, G-money, who has a strong hatred for the police. Ali's life takes a serious turn when a local rival, a crooked cop, his pregnant girlfriend, and his little brother come into the picture.
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Tears of a hustler 4

you've been warned
Tears of a Hustler 4 picks up right where three left off. The Spades are a new powerful organization out to clean up the streets and put am emd to drug dealing and crime in the neighborhood.
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11th hour

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.
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Touch of evil

An elaborate mystery involving a corrupt police official in a squalid town on the Mexican border and a murder that ensnares a narcotics agent and his wife.

The force

2017
"All Denny Malone wants is to be a good cop. He is 'the King of Manhattan North,' a, highly decorated NYPD detective sergeant and the real leader of 'Da Force.' Malone and his crew are the smartest, the toughest, the quickest, the bravest, and the baddest, an elite special unit given unrestricted authority to wage war on gangs, drugs and guns. Every day and every night for the eighteen years he's spent on the Job, Malone has served on the front lines, witnessing the hurt, the dead, the victims, the perps. He's done whatever it takes to serve and protect in a city built by ambition and corruption, where no one is clean-including Malone himself. What only a few know is that Denny Malone is dirty: he and his partners have stolen millions of dollars indrugs and cash in the wake of the biggest heroin bust in the city's history. Now Malone is caught in a trap and being squeezed by the Feds..."--Amazon.com.
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Running scared

for 22 years a fugitive--the corrupt cop busted by God
2010
Ex-police officer Robert Leon Davis looks back at his time as a police officer, his arrest, his time as a fugitive, and how he yielded his life to God.
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The boardwalk

2015
"Gulliver Dowd is on the verge of finding out who killed his sister. Then the man who is supposed to give him the scoop, NYPD Detective Sam Patrick, is gunned down on the Coney Island Boardwalk. As Dowd delves into the shooting, he uncovers a pattern of corruption involving organized crime and the police. Just how much is Gulliver willing to sacrifice in order to find out why his sister was murdered"--Back cover.

Who do you serve, who do you protect?

police violence and resistance in the United States
2016
A collection of essays by activists, journalists, and community organizers that explores police violence against people of color and other marginalized communities and failures of reform the justice system.

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