(Part 3) Best law enforcement biographies according to redditors
We found 129 Reddit comments discussing the best law enforcement biographies. We ranked the 59 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 41-60. You can also go back to the previous section.
I read the book as well. He's never been a good guy.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Last-Narco-Inside-Worlds/dp/0802145485
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/joaquin-el-chapo-guzman-drug-cartel-kingpin-behind-the-arrest-of-pubic-enemy-number-one/
>"I know these officers personally. I have worked around them. They are excellent officers and incredible people and they really have served the public well. They are some of the most dedicated and committed people you will ever want to meet."
I mean, I'm not saying that he should shit on them publicly without knowing the facts, but this is something that can blow up in his face pretty easily.
Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if this was a pretty regular thing amongst the Calgary police force. If you're interested, there's a book called The Wolf and the Sheepdog that describes their conduct, from the perspective of an officer that thinks he's a warrior of some kind.
Also has lovely tidbits on things like "cultivating witnesses".
> Israel has few allies in the region, so it's a legit concern.
Let me show you what the region looks like.
> FYI, they don't deny the Armenian genocide, they just don't address it.
Damn right they don't, but it has nothing to do with modern-day Turkey's "feels", and EVERYTHING to do with the FACT that the Zionists have BLOODY HANDS in the Armenian Genocide - Theodor Herzl was trying to use the Armenian Uprising as a tool to leverage the favor of the Ottoman Sultan as early as 1895 - and when that didn't work, the Ottoman Empire had to FALL (with much help from the Dönmeh - the Crypto's of Salonika).
Hey, the overthrow of the Sultan and the fall of the Ottomans was a BLOODY BUSINESS, but how else were the Zionists going to lay their paws on Palestine?
A similar role was played at Holodomor, where ~7 million Ukrainians were starved to death as their warehouses overflowed with foodstuffs that THEY had farmed.
See Lazar Kaganovich - "The Wolf of the Kremlin" - written by Lazar's own grandson.
Bloody hands, pathetic excuses.
The Brotherhoods is a really good book about Caracappa and Eppolito
https://www.amazon.com/Brotherhoods-True-Story-Murdered-Mafia/dp/1416523383
My understanding is that he is playing a different character. According to the wiki, the movie is based off of a book by Robert Mazur. So that would mean that this story is more of an "undercover" movie than Narcos was, which was more of a "FBI hunt" show. So like two takes on Pablo Escobar. Sounds promising honestly.
Watch this too, if you haven't. Very important and relevant.
Conspiracy of Silence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY-F5JoHoho&t=2s
And this one about systematic pedophilia in Hollywood, it came out last year
An Open Secret https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eeGX4SlF1s&t=5s
Edit: Also this one:
60 MINUTES ON UK'S POLITICAL "ELITE" CHILD SEXUAL PREDATOR RING
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANv8nT7vDFA
Edit: Here's a new book about Jeffrey Epstein
Filthy Rich: A Powerful Billionaire, the Sex Scandal that Undid Him, and All the Justice that Money Can Buy - The Shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein Hardcover – October 10, 2016
https://www.amazon.com/Filthy-Rich-Powerful-Billionaire-Shocking/dp/0316274054/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1481497068&sr=8-1&keywords=jeffrey+epstein
Joseph Wambaugh wrote several excellent police-centric true crime books:
The Onion Field
Lines and Shadows
The Blooding
His fiction is also fantastic.
I don't think it's the same guy, thanks for that link! Was reading through the phrases and curiously I remember a nephew saying "When I was big, I ....." and described himself, I asked him some ideas as play along, entertaining the thought it was true, but It's so trippy to see those same words as one clear example of case to report. To me it just seemed like he was roleplaying in a way, it would make sense for kids to have these episodes of time confusion while a part of them is being developed. On the other h and I am completely open to them being real, and maybe a more traditional hippie could argue that at the age of 7 the pineal gland get calcified or "inhibited" by growth of the brain or something else.
This is the guy I was remembering:
http://www.iisis.net/index.php%3Fpage=semkiw-reincarnation-robert-snow-past-life
tl;dr on a dare he went to a past regressionist and he remembered being a painter, eventually on a museum he ran into a painting he recognized remembering painting in the past, and iirc some details were confirmed from his initial past regression session notes. The part I find too coincidental is that he is a writer and any pr is good pr, and I think he even wrote a book about it "Portrait of a past life skeptic" The skeptic side of me says there can be some motivation to fake it, not saying it is fake or sounds fake. It sounded real to me, I believe I heard an interview with him in mysterious universe podcast.
I recently finished reading this book by Robert Clark, Down Inside, who spent, as the subtitle suggests, 30 years working in Canadian Prisons here. The impression you get from his account is that, while solitary is overused because of a general decline in effective control, most of the people who are in there have requested it for their own protection. I'm not sure what the numbers are, but this is the impression I got from reading his book.
Here's my list of ones I've read, They range from undercover cops to actual members to PIs/ Journalits writing them
Edit: Another one I remembered
Autogenerated.
I am former FBI Special Agent Marc Ruskin, with 20 years’ experience in Undercover Operations. I've infiltrated a New York Mafia crime family, a Chinese Malaysian heroin organization, a Wall Street trading exchange, right-wing terrorist groups, and I’ve worked on espionage cases. AMA!
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My short bio: Hi Reddit! I'm Marc Ruskin. I am a former FBI Special Agent, and I spent 20 years in Undercover Operations. I've juggled a dozen different aliases and have been awarded five commendations from the Director of the FBI. I've worked at US Embassies in Paris, Madrid, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and Asuncion, the latter where I was given a Letter of Recognition from the Minister of the Interior for the rescue of a kidnapped former Miss Paraguay (Mariangela Martinez).
Since retiring, I've divided my time between a law practice in New York and extended sojourns in Liaoning Province, China where I've been studying Mandarin. My new book, The Pretender: My Life Undercover in the FBI, is [now on sale] (https://www.amazon.com/Pretender-My-Life-Undercover-FBI/dp/1250068630).
Proof: http://imgur.com/a/smz3f
Thanks to All of You For Stopping By.
Had a Great Time!
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investigation? What's the highest level of crime you've seen essentially
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: pecial_agent_marc_ruskin_with_20/dmdys73/): In SUNBLOCK, a UC op targeting a
: Malaysian Chinese global heroin importation and distribution investigation, I
: was posing as the nephew of Gil Sandoval (not his true name, of course), the
: head of a Mexican cocaine cartel in the eighties, serving "natural life" with
: no hope of parole. One the most interesting and challenging cases of my
: career. At the end, I testified on his behalf at the re-sentencing hearing.
: Altogether he must have served about 18 years. For a long time, our lives
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: slip up by him, and I'd be going to a UC meet with a melancholy end.
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: agents in Reservoir Dogs, you have to "have rocks in your head" to be a UC.
: Seriously though, you need five+ years agent time, and if you have a family,
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: have, a great sense of humor. In the films, like Die Hard, they're all black
: suits and grim faces: "We're taking over now." That never happens. We'd kid
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Fortunately, there is a trial going on that will settle this very point: Floyd, et al. v. City of New York, et al
Here is one expert report from those involved.
> Blacks and Latinos are significantly more likely to be stopped than Whites. Overall, Blacks and Latinos constitute 84% of the stops, a far higher percentage than their proportion of the city’s population.
and then further:
> Analysis of the information recorded by police officers themselves in their stop and frisk reports indicates that more than 95,000 stops lacked reasonable, articulable suspicion and thus violated the Fourth Amendment.
We should get the verdict any day now.
Or maybe you want some sources showing the NYPD is racist. Maybe against an elected official
Theres even a fucking book
They even had to tell their officers not to SAY racist things even if they are already racist
http://www.amazon.com/10-8-Cops-Honest-Look-Street/dp/0935878130
I adore this book. It's about as real as it gets.
Get the scary details here because one day YOU might find yourself with a hood over your head if you happen to disagree with Uncle Sam;
https://www.legaljunkies.com/showthread.php?t=89055
and https://www.amazon.com/FBI-Secrets-M-Wesley-Swearingen/dp/0896085015
This article has been expanded into a book too.
I don't think he specifically wrote it for Amazon, but my cousin has a couple books for sale.
Book 1
Book 2
I go through books like some people go through water.
Jan-April: Sookie Stackhouse, Kerrlyn Sparks Vamps, Immortality Bites, MaryJanice Davidson's Undead, Mercy Thompson, Garnet Lacy, Richelle Mead's Kincaid, Katie MacAlister's Aisling Grey, Silver Dragons & Light Dragons series.
(As you may notice, Jan-April was the period where I was least busy with school. These last couple of months have been brutal with classes, so my extracurricular reading has slowed dramatically.)
Hijacking my comment to let everyone know about a new subreddit we've launched. r/RedditCrimeCommunity is a hub for all the case specific subs and a forum for high quality self posts on crime. I'd love it if you'd join me there and help us build it.
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Mark has been verified by the mods and we've added a Verified flair.
Here's a link to his Amazon Author page
The new book, The Killer Across the Table on Amazon
Mindhunter on Amazon
Edit: The AMA is now concluded. Thanks again to everyone who came to the thread and either asked a question or lurked and read.
I hope you guys got as much out of this as I did. Thank you again to u/Mark_Olshaker for agreeing to do this. I've extended an open invitation to him to join us in the future if he so chooses.
Edit2:
Archive of the AMA - Archive.is
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