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Since its emergence in the mid-nineteenth century as the nation's "metropolis," New York has faced the most challenging housing problems of any ... More

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Superb photographic history of scores of important homes and public buildings--Sunnyside, Boscobel, Clermont, West Point, etc.--built in the valley ... More

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The architect of New York City's incredibly successful campaign to reduce crime lays out in colorful detail how to catch crooks and prevent crime.

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On July 31, 1997, a six-man Emergency Service team from the NYPD raided a terrorist cell in Brooklyn and narrowly prevented a suicide bombing of the ... More

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RECRIMINALIZING DELINQUENCY examines one state's response to violent juvenile crime through waiver legislation that transfers jurisdiction over ... More

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"With this elegant sweep, the author has parted the curtain to reveal a gaseous windbag behind the bombast attending the miraculous claims of today's ... More

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Drugs, bribes, falsifying evidence, unjustified force and kickbacks: there are many opportunities for cops to act like criminals. Jammed Up is the ... More

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The emergence and functioning of two competing and sometimes conflicting cultures within police departments demonstrates how competition between ... More

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In 1983 the author of this book was an influential stock-market columnist on "The Wall Street Journal" through his column "Heard on the Street". He ... More

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Two seasoned experts of police operations unearth the hidden truths behind headline-making stories and explain how cops privately interpret such ... More

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An in-depth examination of the New York Police Department and its striking success in fighting crime.

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The architect of New York City's incredibly successful campaign to reduce crime lays out in colorful detail how to catch crooks and prevent crime.

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The Community Patrol Officer Program (CPOP), launched in New York in 1984, was designed to solve problems at the community level through the ... More

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The forty-percent drop in crime that occurred across the U.S. from 1991 to 2000 remains largely an unsolved mystery. Even more puzzling is the eighty ... More

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Andrew Karmen tracks a quarter century of murder in the city Americans have most commonly associated with rampant street crime. Providing both a ... More

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An in-depth examination of the New York Police Department and its striking success in fighting crime.

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First printed in 1977, Cops and Bobbles has become "one of the two or three consensus classics in the history of police", according to Roger Lane, ... More

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Jay Stuart Berman has written a clear, useful, and persuasive book. Regardless of Theodore Roosevelt's precise role in police reform, this study ... More

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Often told in the words of the police officers themselves, this report from the street level is a revelatory look at the men and women policing and ... More

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From rape to murder, from bombings to hostage-taking, the world of the New York City Police Department's detectives is full of danger--and full of ... More

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Few topics cause more concern than rising crime. And few remedies have been more discussed, on both sides of the Atlantic, than "zero-tolerance ... More

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