(Part 2) Best law enforcement biographies according to redditors

Traditional sources of mafia revenue such as loan sharking, protection rackets, numbers, or prostitution did not tend to catch the eye of the middle class. Customers for those services did not tend to vote. Penalties for those crimes tended to be light.

By contrast, narcotics could and did devastate middle class families. College students became heroin addicts. Accordingly, politicians made the penalties for narcotics trafficking much higher. They tended to levy the penalties at the federal level, where it was much more difficult for mafia families to corrupt law enforcement officials and the judiciary.

If you were a made man facing five years in state prison for illegal gambling, you would keep your mouth shut, observe omerta, and do your time. You'd be out on parole in less than two years and you'd do your time under easy conditions. If on the other hand you were facing thirty federal years for heroin trafficking, you would take your chances with Witness Protection and testify against everyone you knew. Chances for federal parole were more limited (and since 1987, non-existent, as Congress then ended federal parole). You would be doing those thirty years in a maximum-security facility. Odds were good you'd die in jail.

The larger, more sophisticated mafia families foresaw this. They tended to be richer, enjoying a larger slice of the traditional revenue, so they could afford to forego narcotics revenue. They tended to have larger networks of law enforcement and judicial officials, so they were used to lighter sentences for traditional mafia offenses. By contrast the smaller, more marginal families were scrappers. They were used to taking risks to make similar money because that was their only choice.

The way Henry Hill described this in Wiseguy is exceedingly accurate. The movie version, Goodfellas, is pretty accurate also. The US attorney prosecuting Henry Hill for narcotics in Goodfellas was a real, recently retired, US attorney.

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She published a freaking book, that's what she thought would happen.
Who the hell even knows how much of it is true. She's probably awaiting movie deals.

And that Guardian article is publicity. It's got a great big photo of the book cover on it. It took me five seconds to find her book, which is exactly what is supposed to happen.

It's from a book called 'police, crime & 999 a true story from a front line officer'

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00570B6YW/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/280-5924727-2245644?tag=bookl-21

Something tells me your book is worth reading! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crossing-Line-Losing-Your-Undercover/dp/1780576277

If anyone is interested in Alcatraz from a prisoners perspective/what happened in the infamous 1946 prison escape attempt - I'd highly recommend reading 'Alcatraz - my time on the rock' by Jim Quillen, a former inmate of the prison.

Without a doubt it's one of my favourite books

Link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Inside-Alcatraz-My-Time-Rock/dp/1784750662

Fantastic in depth write up. If anyone wants to read up further, respected Irish journalist Nell McCafferty wrote a book on the subject.

http://www.amazon.com/Woman-Blame-Kerry-Babies-Case/dp/1855942135/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Killing Pablo by Mark Bowden, guy who wrote Black Hawk Down.

it seems like you already know more about it than probably 99% of the people on this subreddit ;-)

the problem with theories of conspiracy (like so many "tin foil hat" theories), is that people really like to see things where it sometimes is just a matter of incompetence, flaws in the system/procedures, miscommunication of government officials, rivalry between police departments, .. (this is not only true for belgium by the way, but our bilingual nature and different government styles between flanders/brussels/wallonia surely does not help)

IF Dutroux was some real life pedofile network equivalent of Breaking Bad's Mike, WHY would he ever open his mouth ?? (why would ANY organised crime dude open his mouth? it's not like he can be tortured or anything and the belgian justice sytem has very little "deal" options like they throw around in them US shows about organised crime)

even more so, WHY would anyone in such network risk leaving a tosser like Dutroux run free/stay alive ?

there surely were moments along the way when it should not have been that hard for him to "accidently" come in contact with other inmates (although pedofiles and rapist are usually kept separated from the general inmate population) or that he made "a slip" on some stairs somewhere ... (and they probably could have motivated it)

the consensus these days is that there probably was some kind of small network/gang operated by Dutroux, but most likely not in the large cover up kind of scale.

the case does still ring some bells with age 30+ people and when the time came for the release on probation of Dutroux's wife (who always came across as a really weak figure that was manipulated by him), there was some public outrage a few years ago


what the families think has always been quite diverse.

on one hand you have father Marchal who has /was always been quite prominently in the media (to a point where he started to annoy people) and on the other hand you had father Jacobs who has always been rather silent but still wants to keep searching for the truth

the surviving victims (Laetitia and Sabine) have been in the news these past years as Sabine wrote (let someone write) a book and also Laetitita appeared on some talk shows over the years

the case still lives in the minds and hearts of people but not in the magnitude that it used to imo

() in theory Belgium is trilingual but let's face it, as "De ideale Wereld" pointed out very well that the German community is kinda a joke

Educational, Profilers. I'm majoring in psych hoping to get involved into either forensic or criminal psychology.

It's really good and interesting though!

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http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9696658-acab

https://www.amazon.com/C-All-Coppers-Are-Bastards-ebook/dp/B00DFB2YTG

Here you go you fucking dipshit

No, probably not and here's why: our CIA is the biggest drug dealer on the planet and has been since they dethroned China and Russia. We have occupied Afghanistan for 2 decades and protect our pharma and DEA's interest and brought in heroin. Heroin does come in from Mexico, but it represents a miniscule market share as we constantly fly monsanto spraying planes over their fields (and in other latin american countries) to destroy their crops because we appaerntly are sticking to a contract with afghanistan to get all of our legal painkillers and illegal heroin from there.

We have a deal to get all our cocaine from colombia I believe and we bring it in on private, nondisclosed, classified airstrips in the us and/or secret ports and then distribute it through agent networks with ties to churches. A lot of drugs are distributed through agents for the church; posing as religious leaders means no one dares scrutinize you too carefully in security checks for fear of being rude...no one asks them questions. That's why you have Jesuits as intelligence agent assassins , no one would dare suspect or question a person of God. This has been going on for decades and lots of people have proven it time and again but no one wants to talk about it. It's another of those cognitive dissonance things.

This whole article is complete nonsense built upon a mythical model of reality, because it is completely incongruent with the actuality model of how the drug war actually works in the context of the deep state. If anything China would be fighting a drug war by outbidding the CIA for illegal drugs obtained from said mafias.

References

http://www.amazon.com/The-Politics-Heroin-Complicity-Global/dp/1556524838

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1620408902/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BXLBD0Q/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2UX19IC7MV17Q&coliid=I1SPLWMJH63HAT

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062276166/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0882791346/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2UX19IC7MV17Q&coliid=I3BN7NORUXBVYP

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1862073279/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2UX19IC7MV17Q&coliid=I388QHQD7OSMNW

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https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Insiders-Story-Good-Catching/dp/1501127195

You should probably start with Killing Pablo. It's not a Mexican cartel, but Pablo was probably the most influential cartel leader ever.

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Unchained written by a municipal cop, and a suspect he arrested and ran into repeatedly.

Edit: unavailable on amazon but I can get it for you (PayPal/Venmo/CashApp), PM me if you’re interested.

The state police officer who arranged the psychic to come in, wrote a book in which he discusses this case as well. Not in depth so I never bought the book.... https://www.amazon.com/My-Life-As-Maryland-Lawman/dp/1974543315

In the Name of the Children: An FBI Agent's Relentless Pursuit of the Nation's Worst Predators

By FBI Special Agent Jeff Rinek

“During his 30-year career with the FBI, Jeff Rinek worked hundreds of investigations involving crimes against children: from stranger abduction to serial homicide to ritualized sexual abuse. Those who do this kind of work are required to plumb the depths of human depravity, to see things no one should ever have to see—and once seen can never forget. There is no more important—or more brutal—job in law enforcement, and few have been more successful than Rinek at solving these sort of cases.”

Most notable is the Cary Stayner case. This book is written with no ego and is an honest account of what it means to work these cases and how it affects those in law enforcement.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1944648984/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_KyF7Bb1AEQ4D9

This was a great book. http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/1930051123/ref=wms_ohs_product?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Two great ones that are conflict from police perspective. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Not-Waving-But-Drowning-Frontline/dp/1840189177/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1487289569&sr=8-1&keywords=not+waving+but+drowning