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Becoming abolitionists : police, protests, and the pursuit of freedom / by Purnell, Derecka,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. From community policing initiatives to increasing diversity, none of it has stopped the police from killing about three people a day. Millions of people continue to protest police violence because these "solutions" do not match the problem: the police cannot be reformed. In Becoming Abolitionists, Purnell draws from her experiences as a lawyer, writer, and organizer initially skeptical about police abolition. She saw too much sexual violence and buried too many friends to consider getting rid of police in her hometown of St. Louis, let alone the nation. But the police were a placebo. Calling them felt like something, and something feels like everything when the other option seems like nothing. Purnell details how multi-racial social movements rooted in rebellion, risk-taking, and revolutionary love pushed her and a generation of activists toward abolition. The book travels across geography and time, and offers lessons that activists have learned from Ferguson to South Africa, from Reconstruction to contemporary protests against police shootings. Here, Purnell argues that police can not be reformed and invites readers to envision new systems that work to address the root causes of violence. Becoming Abolitionists shows that abolition is not solely about getting rid of police, but a commitment to create and support different answers to the problem of harm in society, and, most excitingly, an opportunity to reduce and eliminate harm in the first place"--Amazon.
Subjects: African Americans; African Americans; Criminal justice, Administration of; Discrimination in law enforcement; Police administration; Police and mass media; Police brutality; Police misconduct; Police; Police; Police-community relations; Racism;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The fifth assassin / by Meltzer, Brad.;
Archivist Beecher White discovers a connection that may link the individuals responsible for the only four successful assassinations of American Presidents after discovering a modern-day killer who is recreating the assassins' crimes.
Subjects: Political fiction.; Suspense fiction.; United States. National Archives and Records Administration; Archivists; Assassins; Clergy; Presidents;
© 2013., Grand Central Publishing,
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Forgotten in death / by Robb, J. D.,1950-author.;
"In the latest novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, homicide detective Eve Dallas sifts through the wreckage of the past to find a killer. The body was left in a dumpster like so much trash, the victim a woman of no fixed address, known for offering paper flowers in return for spare change-and for keeping the cops informed of any infractions she witnessed on the street. But the notebook where she scribbled her intel on litterers and other such offenders is nowhere to be found. Then Eve is summoned away to a nearby building site to view more remains-in this case decades old, adorned with gold jewelry and fine clothing-unearthed by recent construction work. She isn't happy when she realizes that the scene of the crime belongs to her husband, Roarke-not that it should surprise her, since the Irish billionaire owns a good chunk of New York. Now Eve must enter a complex world of real estate development, family history, shady deals, and shocking secrets to find justice for two women whose lives were thrown away"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Dallas, Eve (Fictitious character); Women detectives; Policewomen; Murder; Women; Informers; Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Man-woman relationships; Billionaires; Spouses;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The fallen / by Baldacci, David,author.;
"Something sinister is going on in Baronville. The rust belt town has seen four bizarre murders in the space of two weeks. Cryptic clues left at the scenes-- obscure bible verses, odd symbols --have the police stumped. Amos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jamison are in Baronville visiting Alex's sister and her family. It's a bleak place: a former mill and mining town with a crumbling economy and rampant opioid addiction. Decker has only been there a few hours when he stumbles on a horrific double murder scene. Then the next killing hits sickeningly close to home. And with the lives of people he cares about suddenly hanging in the balance, Decker begins to realize that the recent string of deaths may be only one small piece of a much larger scheme--with consequences that will reach far beyond Baronville"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Government investigators; International crimes; Memory; Murder; Photographic memory;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The fallen [sound recording] / by Baldacci, David,author.; Brewer, Kyf,narrator.; Cassidy, Orlagh,narrator.; Hachette Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Kyf Brewer and Orlagh Cassidy."Something sinister is going on in Baronville. The rust belt town has seen four bizarre murders in the space of two weeks. Cryptic clues left at the scenes-- obscure bible verses, odd symbols --have the police stumped. Amos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jamison are in Baronville visiting Alex's sister and her family. It's a bleak place: a former mill and mining town with a crumbling economy and rampant opioid addiction. Decker has only been there a few hours when he stumbles on a horrific double murder scene. Then the next killing hits sickeningly close to home. And with the lives of people he cares about suddenly hanging in the balance, Decker begins to realize that the recent string of deaths may be only one small piece of a much larger scheme--with consequences that will reach far beyond Baronville"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Government investigators; International crimes; Memory; Murder; Photographic memory;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Rogue lawyer / by Grisham, John,author.;
A nomadic lawyer because of frequent death threats, Sebastian Rudd takes on a case involving a brain-damaged young man accused of murdering two little girls.
Subjects: Legal fiction (Literature); Thrillers (Fiction); Teenagers with mental disabilities; Girls; Murder; Judicial ethics;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Rogue lawyer [text (large print)] / by Grisham, John,author.;
A nomadic lawyer because of frequent death threats, Sebastian Rudd takes on a case involving a brain-damaged young man accused of murdering two little girls.
Subjects: Large print books.; Legal fiction (Literature); Thrillers (Fiction); Teenagers with mental disabilities; Girls; Murder; Judicial ethics;
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Invasion of privacy [sound recording] / by Reich, Christopher,1961-author.; Michael, Paul(Actor),narrator.;
Read by Paul Michael.On a remote, dusty road forty miles outside of Austin, Texas, FBI agent Joe Grant and a confidential informant are killed in a deadly shootout. Left to pick up the pieces is Mary Grant, Joe's young wife and mother of their two daughters. The official report places blame for the deaths on Joe's shoulders ... but the story just doesn't add up and Mary has too many troubling questions that need answers.
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Suspense fiction.; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Information technology; Government investigators; Privacy, Right of; Audiobooks.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Pulling the chariot of the sun : a memoir of a kidnapping / by McCrae, Shane,1975-author.;
"An unforgettable memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; McCrae, Shane, 1975-; Abused children; African American children; Dysfunctional families.; Kidnapping victims; Racism.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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1st case / by Patterson, James,1947-author.; Tebbetts, Christopher,author.;
Angela's graduate school days at MIT come to an abrupt end when she uses her hacking skills on another student's computer. Yet her mentor, Eve Abajian, arranges a new beginning for her--as an intern in FBI's Boston field office. Her new supervisor, Assistant Special Agent in Charge William Keats--one of only two agents in the Northeast to make his rank before the age of thirty--sees in Angela a fellow prodigy. But Angela's skills come with a natural curiosity, which is also a dangerous liability. With little training, Angela is quickly plunged into a tough case: tracking murderous brothers who go by the Poet and the Engineer. When Keats tells her to "watch and listen," Angela's mind kicks into overdrive. The obsessive thinking that earned her As on campus can prove fatal in the field.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Interns; Computer crimes; Brothers; Serial murderers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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