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So Others May Live: Coast Guard's Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death

Martha J LaGuardia-Kotite, Tom Ridge

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Total reviews: 11 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Muddy's Coffeehouse in Eliz. City 5 out of 5 stars.
6 of 7 people found this review helpful.

Incredible! I am a frequent patron of Muddy Water's Coffeehouse in E. City, N.C. and I have no connection to the Coast Guard. I frequently run into these guys, mostly the kids in the swimmer training program, on Saturdays when they come in to get coffee and study their training material, or e-mail their wives and girlfriends. They are perennially polite and completely pumped up about the program. I have always had lots of interest in learning about what they do. Then came The Guardian. After seeing that, I had more respect for these swimmers than I have for any of the other "Special Forces." (I realize they are not classified as such, but perhaps they should be.) I bought the book to learn more and learn I did. It is unfathomable to me that these young men and women will take the risks they do to save others' lives, particularly when, in many of these cases, people made stupid mistakes to be out on the seas in the first place. I read the book thinking, Yeah, So Others May Live to make some more stupid mistakes another day.

As a writer myself, I thought the book was incredibly well-done. The characterization of these guys as capable, yet humble, rang so true. The story-driven chapters were gripping. I read far too late into the night too many nights in a row. Martha, you owe me some sleep. And, Swimmers, the rest of us owe you and your "teammates" nothing but the utmost respect.

A P.S. to Ms. LaGuardia-Kotite: Your epilogue on "rescuing the rescuers"
answered the burning question I had - what do these guys do with the horrors they have seen and they stress they have borne?

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Dramatic, compelling, downright unbelievable accounts of the Coast Guard's often unsung heros.

Police Officer Exam (Barron's Police Officer Examination)

Donald J. Schroeder, Frank A. Lombardo

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Total reviews: 12 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Excellant 4 out of 5 stars.
23 of 24 people found this review helpful.

I wanted to prepare as much as possible when it comes to becoming a cop. I had got this book because I wanted to learn more and know what I would be getting in an exam. When I flipped through this manual I was in total shock. I have never seen or read so much detailed information in my life. You can't go wrong with this book.

They help you understand police forms, legal definitions, preparation for oral exams, writing reports, how to take tests, police procedures and so on. This book isn't just about the exams. This book actually briefs you on becoming a cop and some of the things that you're gona come across or have to face. I got way more than I paid for.

This book is pretty cheap for so much information.

Editorial Review:

Updated to reflect the most recent exams given across North America, this test prep manual presents four full-length practice exams with all questions answered and fully explained. Tests include two that were actually given by the New York City Police Department. Brand-new in this edition is a completely new diagnostic exam. It contains the latest question types found on recent police entry-level exams and guides candidates in quickly directing and focusing their study efforts. Other helpful features include instruction on writing police reports, advice on making the right impression at an admissions interview, an overview of police officers’ responsibilities, and additional practice questions with answers, which follow in-depth explanations of each question type normally found on official police officer exams.

I Love a Cop, Revised Edition: What Police Families Need to Know

Ellen Kirschman

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Total reviews: 13 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

MUST HAVE BOOK 4 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

This is a must have for anyone going into, thinking about going into or already in Law enforcement; especially if you are married or getting married. This book will help prepare you for the social and personal hardships you will face as a police officer. The author uses real stories from police family's to give the reader ways of working out problems in the family unit that are caused directly because of work. This book will not only help you as the cop prepare for whats to come but it will help your loved once understand what you go through on a daily basis and give you the tools you need to have a healthy relationship while serving your community.

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Will police work change the person you love? Are police marriages destined to fail? What are the chances of your loved one being killed in the line of duty? Since its publication nearly a decade ago, I Love a Cop has earned high praise from family members and police departments worldwide for providing answers to these and other critical questions. Now, this trusted resource has been revised to address the realities of post-9/11, post-Katrina police work. New topics include coping with separations and long deployments, building resilience, and finding opportunities for growth in the wake of traumatic experiences. The book also provides up-to-date information on organizational stress, alcohol abuse, domestic violence, and special challenges faced by women and minorities on the force. Whether they read it cover to cover or refer to it when problems arise, families will find no-nonsense advice and resources they can depend on.

Criminal Law (Black Letter Outline) (Black Letter Outline)

Joshua Dressler

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Dressler's clever scheme 1 out of 5 stars.
5 of 7 people found this review helpful.

The book is fairly useful because it presents readers with a great amount of black letter law. It made me wonder why Dressler's textbook is such an awful and confusing mess of babble. Then, it finally hit me. Dressler simultaenously churns out impossible-to-understand criminal law textbooks that law students are forced to buy, thereby creating a market for black letter law guides and hornbooks. Then, Dressler creates these black letter law guides and hornbooks as an antidote to his shoddy textbook! Ingenius.

Honestly, there are better books out there to help you with criminal law. I find the nutshell series to be more helpful than Dressler. The Emanuel and Gilbert outlines are also better. After producing his horrible "Cases and Materials on Criminal Law" textbook for 1Ls, which seems to be intentionally confusing, Dressler doesn't deserve to sell any of his study-aids.

Editorial Review:

Written by a recognizable and well respected authority in the criminal law field, this Black Letter follows in the tradition of Professor Dressler’s casebook and treatise, in terms of coverage, organization, and easy-to-read style. Black Letter Outline on Criminal Law mirrors the coverage of the most commonly used casebooks, and even more clearly mirrors the coverage of most professors in their classrooms. Most of the Black letter focuses on the so-called "general part of the criminal law" : the basic elements of a crime, defenses to crimes, inchoate liability, and complicity—what most professors want their students to learn. The Black Letter also thoroughly explains Criminal Homicide offenses, Rape (Sexual Assault), and the Theft crimes. Clearly and separately covering both common law and Model Penal Code principles, this Black Letter also offers user-friendly features—such as the “Conversation with students” section at the beginning of each part.

No Second Place Winner

William Henry Jordan

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GUNNY 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 3 people found this review helpful.

GREAT BOOK. THIS ONE WAS FOR A FRIEND. I BOUGHT MINE A LONG TIME AGO. I ACTUALLY KNEW BILL JORDAN AND WAS PROUD TO CALL HIM A FRIEND. I ENCOURAGE ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS TO BUY A COPY.

Good as they get 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 3 people found this review helpful.

Jordan was an icon to gun owners and shooters. Also a character in his own right. Has good advice for any pistol owner.

No Seond Place Winner 4 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

Bill Jordan was a man I wish I'd met. This is a rather slim volume, as he frankly admitted, but there's some meat on the bones of this book to chew on! It's a quick and easily read book, and that might be it's real fault. You can all too easily pass right over some very valuable advice that's only obtainable by experience. Read it again and again. This is about gunfighting on the job--guns, holsters, and usage. I liked this book and recommend as a practical primer on the subject, derived from one man's real life experience. Hopefully it's information that you never need to apply.

An partially dated book that is still worth reading 3 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

I had the pleasure of meeting Bill Jordan many years ago when I photographed him for an interview. I remember a soft-spoken, tall man with some of the largest hands I've ever had the opprotunity to shake. I admired him for his skill with a firearm, his reputation as a lawman and his kindness as a fine human being. I have an autographed copy of this book. I recently read it again--for the first time in many years.

He was ahead of his time as a proponent of training law enforcement officers for potential life/death confrontations. As a document that helped to lay the foundation for the training methods used today, this is important.

It is, unfortunately, a very dated document due to the multitude of changes that have come about in weaponry over the past few decades. No longer is the double-action .357 Magnum revolver the firearm of choice for lawmen. If there was a contest between the revolver and the autoloading pistol, the autoloader won by miles. Very few (if any) law enforcement agencies use revolvers today.

Skip the first half of this book. The hardware section is no longer relevant. Jump to the last half of the book, in which the other aspects of preparation for life/death confrontations is presented. This is the important stuff that is just as relevant today as it was in 1960.

The Secret Service: The Hidden History of an Engimatic Agency

Philip H. Melanson

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This new edition of the definitive history of the Secret Service lays bare the 2004 Bush campaign's political uses of the agency and the new challenges it faces as a branch of the Homeland Security Department, in a post-9/11 world. Acclaimed scholar of political violence and governmental secrecy Philip Melanson explores the long-hidden workings of the Secret Service since its inception in 1865 and through rigorous research and extensive interviews with former White House staffers and retired agents, uncovers startling facts about the Agency's role in such traumatic national events as the assassination of JFK and the shooting of President Reagan. Included, too, are revelations about presidential demands on the agency; the problems of alcoholism, divorce, and burnout among agents; and the Service's inexplicable failure to develop profiles of potential assassins. Up-to-date and explosive, this book assails the public image of the Secret Service as a highly professional apolitical organization, exposing the often-detrimental influence that politics exerts on the Agency.

Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing

Ted Conover

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Conover's Best 5 out of 5 stars.
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Chameleon journalist Ted Conover trains as a prison guard and works in Sing Sing, giving readers an intense look into prison life and the dynamics of the guards and guarded.

Intense, intensely personal, and full of insight into the prison system itself.

Best part is his history of the US penitentiary system, which most of us don't study in US History classes! Highly readable, well-researched section that should be of interest to all US citizens.

An incredible journey, a well-written account.

Editorial Review:

Acclaimed journalist Ted Conover sets a new standard for bold, in-depth reporting in this first-hand account of life inside the penal system.

When Conover’s request to shadow a recruit at the New York State Corrections Officer Academy was denied, he decided to apply for a job as a prison officer. So begins his odyssey at Sing Sing, once a model prison but now the state’s most troubled maximum-security facility. The result of his year there is this remarkable look at one of America’s most dangerous prisons, where drugs, gang wars, and sex are rampant, and where the line between violator and violated is often unclear. As sobering as it is suspenseful, Newjack is an indispensable contribution to the urgent debate about our country’s criminal justice system, and a consistently fascinating read.

Supervision of Police Personnel (7th Edition) (Supervision of Police Personnel)

Nathan F. Iannone, Marvin D. Iannone, Jeff Bernstein

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Supervision of Police Personnel 5 out of 5 stars.
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It is a very good informational source for anyone that wants to pursue a promotion in police work. The review questions at the end of each chapter are convenient and helpful.

Drawn out and boring, hard to understand 1 out of 5 stars.
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I found Supervision of Police Personnel (6TH) to be pretty much drawn out and boring. It is painfully evident that the same information could have been relayed in a lot less then 400 boring pages. It was difficult to follow and often repetitive. A lot of detail was focused on irrelevant material. This was a difficult book for me to swallow (as a 12 year LEO), but it certainly rated high as a sleep aid for me.

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Known as the source for police supervision, this book offers complete coverage of leadership training of supervisors in law enforcement and allied fields. From proven leadership strategies to methods for maintaining high morale, this book discusses individual and group management techniques and how to carry out the various responsibilities of the supervisor. A variety of issues are explored, from hiring and training, to discipline and evaluation. This edition features the latest on leadership and decision making, more on handling critical incidents, contemporary personnel issues. For the training of managerial and supervisory personnel in police departments and law enforcement agencies.

Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit

John Douglas, Mark Olshaker

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During his twenty-five year career with the Investigative Support Unit, Special Agent John Douglas becamea legendary figure in law enforcement, pursuing some of the most notorious and sadistic serial killers ofour time: the man who hunted prostitutes for sport in the woods of Alaska, the Atlanta child murderer, andSeattle's Green River killer, the case that nearly cost Douglas his life.

As the model for Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs, Douglas has confronted, interviewed,and studied scores of serial killers and assassins, including Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, and Ed Gein, whodressed himself in his victims' peeled skin. Using his uncanny ability to become both predator and prey,Douglas examines each crime scene, reliving both the killer's and the victim's actions in his mind, creatingtheir profiles, describing their habits, and predicting their next moves.

Now, in chilling detail, the legendary Mindhunter takes us behind the scenes of some of his most gruesome,fascinating, and challenging cases -- and into the darkest recesses of our worst nightmares.

Evidence (Siegel's Series)

Brian N. Siegel

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Excellent practice for both law school and Bar Exam 4 out of 5 stars.
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This book contains 24 essay questions and model answers. In addition, it has 103 multiple choice questions that are similar to those on the multistate bar examination. Each question explains why the answer is correct and the other possible choices are wrong. The tricky hearsay exceptions were were explained.

How To Pass Evidence 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

Evidence can be very difficult, especially Heresay
this book had over 100 MBE Mult Choice Question and answer, most of them dealt with Heresay. Very Very helpful,(along with law in a flash flash cards) I did every question, and reviewed the ones I got wrong.

Scored TOP GRADE IN THE CLASS ON MY FINAL>