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"Sadly, we all live in a world where on any given day we could find ourselves the victim of a crime. Crimes committed by pedophiles, rapists, and other sex offenders are commonplace in today's society, as are property crimes, cybercrimes, and crimes against the elderly. This practical and pertinent book, which draws from the author's lengthy experience as a New York State parole officer, is a survival tool that should be available to everyone. In...
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It has been call the "Ferguson effect": Since the 2014 police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, officers have been backing off of proactive policing, and criminals are becoming emboldened. Mac Donald deconstructs the central narrative of the Black Lives Matter movement: that racist cops are the greatest threat to young black males. She argues that it is criminals and gangbangers who are responsible for the high black homicide...
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"Tens of millions of people poured onto the streets for Black Lives Matter, bringing with them a wholly new idea of public safety, common security, and the delivery of justice, communicating that vision in the fiery vernacular of riot, rebellion, and protest. A World Without Police transcribes these new ideas--written in slogans and chants, over occupied bridges and hastily assembled barricades--into a compelling, must-read manifesto for police abolition....
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"Weekly, there are major threats, mass killings, terrorist attacks, and even weather-related disasters--the list goes on. And this increasingly dangerous world includes more violent and deadly threats that are specifically targeting everyday civilians ... [Via this safety bible] ... you can make educated predictions using the new key questions of who, why, where, when, and how from the attacker's point of view"--Amazon.com
"This personal safety and...
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Explains how to protect one's home, family, and property and how to steer clear of computer and high-tech crime; investment and white-collar crime; and terrorism, bombs and bomb threats, in a book that also details safety measures for weddings, funerals, holidays, and emergency situations.
10) Stranger safety
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With colorful photos and simple text, this book introduces the youngest readers to stranger safety--one of the most important lessons young children need to learn.
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Real Pigeons volume 2
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"A group of crime-fighting birds--who are also best friends--must stick together to protect the city from an evil ostrich and other dangers." --
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Security and risk management are principally concerned with the protection and conservation of corporate assets and resources. The task of protection continues to be an increasingly complex one in a time when technology is creating new products (and thus risk) at an explosive rate. Add this to the crime rate -- now aggravated by domestic and international terrorism -- and the importance of risk analysis and evaluation to design proper protection becomes...
14) Not all heroes
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Moving halfway across the country did not help eleven-year-old Zinnia deal with her little brother's death, but joining her neighbors and aunt as a Real Life Super Hero does that and more.
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Real Pigeons volume 5
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It's a bird! It's ... another bird? Well, actually it's a whole flock of crime-fighting pigeons! The hilarity continues in this reluctant-reader favorite, perfect for fans of BAD GUYS and DOG MAN.
With the Real Pigeons World Wild Network, more pigeons are fighting crime than ever before! But that doesn't mean the squad can rest. There are still thieves to catch and endangered birds to protect! But what will the Real Pigeons do when they find a traitor...
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Surveillance and Threat Detection offers readers a complete understanding of the terrorist/criminal cycle, and how to interrupt that cycle to prevent an attack. Terrorists and criminals often rely on pre-attack and pre-operational planning and surveillance activities that can last a period of weeks, months, or even years. Identifying and disrupting this surveillance is key to prevention of attacks. The systematic capture of suspicious events and the...
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These first 30 episodes of Batman's second season will take you on more perilous plots with fiendish foes trying to undo our undaunted heroes! From the torturous King Tut to a straying Catwoman to the provoking Joker, Batman and his Boy Wonder sidekick come face to face with a cape-full of criminal calamity!
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