police corruption

One of the most authentic and consistently illuminating portraits of police work ever, Blue on Blue describes the fascinating inner workings of the world?s largest police force and Chief Charles Campisi?s unprecedented two decades putting bad cops behind bars.

Chronicles the history of the first major crusade to cleanup New York City of crime after Reverend Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst, a Presbyterian minister, went out into the city in diguise and gathered inforamtion against the corrupt police department.

Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins to the rarefied heights of New York City's financial elite. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers, and for people, Epstein amassed his wealth through a combination of access and skill. But even after he had it all, Epstein wanted more. And that unceasing desire, especially a taste for young girls, resulted in his stunning fall from grace. From Epstein himself, to the girls he employed as masseuses at his home, to the cops investigating the appalling charges against him, this book examines all sides of a case that scandalized one of America's richest communities.

Presents a photographic exploration of the history of organized crime in Philadelphia in the 1920s and 1930s, the Prohibition Era. Discusses the lives of Mickey Duffy, known as "Prohibition's Mr. Big;" Max "Boo Boo" Hoff, who was called king of the bootleggers; the violent Lanzetti brothers; and the arsenic widows poison ring.

Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police joins forces with his counterpart at the U.S. Marshall's Service, Inspector Catherine Rhon, to investigate a high-stakes corruption case.

Thirty-something, Sonny Lofthus has been in a Oslo prison for the last dozen years for crimes he didn't commit, pacified by an uninterrupted supply of heroin, and surrounded by a host of corrupt individuals determined to keep him jailed, but when he learns the truth about his father, who had earlier been exposed as a corrupt cop, he makes a brilliant escape to hunt down the people responsible for the crimes he has been paying for.

Detective Sergeant Dennis Milne has found himself on the wrong side of the law after accidentally killing three innocent people, and as he tries to cover his tracks, he begins investigating a brutal murder that seems to lead back to him.

Tells the story of two journalists and their quest to unmask corrupt police officers accused of sexually abusing suspects in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Explores police culture in America and reveals the inner workings of police stations throughout the country, explaining why many police officers will resort to illegal acts to protect one another from scandal.

Recounts the author's hunt for an unpredictable serial killer, a search that began when he was only a rookie cop and followed the murderer's bloody wake for twenty-five years before it ended.