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This Present Darkness is a Christian novel by Frank E. Peretti about angels, demons, and spiritual warfare in a small town. It was published in 1986 and became a best-seller, but also faced criticism and controversy for its portrayal of New Age practices and sexual abuse allegations.
The Choirboys (ISBN 0-440-11188-9), a novel, is a controversial 1975 work of fiction written by Los Angeles Police Department officer-turned-novelist Joseph Wambaugh.In 1995 the novel was selected by the Mystery Writers of America as Number 93 of "The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time".
The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown that explores an alternative religious history involving Jesus and Mary Magdalene. The novel became a worldwide bestseller and a film adaptation, but also faced criticism and controversy for its historical and scientific inaccuracies.
Buddy is a 1982 teenage fiction novel by Nigel Hinton about a boy who faces racism, neglect and crime in England. The novel explores themes such as family, friendship, identity and justice, and was adapted into a TV series in 1986.
Learn about police codes, numerical or alphanumerical abbreviations used by law enforcement over radio systems in the U.S. See examples of 10 codes, signals, incident codes, and other types of codes, and how they vary by state, county, and agency.
A book by Radley Balko about the militarization of police in the US since the War on Drugs. It covers the historical origins, constitutional issues, and social consequences of the trend.
The LEOBR is a set of rights for American law enforcement personnel to protect them from unreasonable investigation and prosecution. It provides them with privileges beyond those normally provided to other citizens, but also faces criticism for making it difficult to discipline or remove bad officers.
He discussed the theory from his book Orders to Kill: The Truth Behind the Murder of Martin Luther King Jr. This theory held that a hit team from the 20th Special Forces Group was to kill King if a police sharpshooter failed. This group was supposedly led by a man named Billy Eidson, whom Pepper claimed had since been killed in a cover up.