Wasting Police Time

Author : David Copperfield
Publisher : Ebury Australia
ISBN 13 : 9781741666946
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wasting Police Time written by David Copperfield and published by Ebury Australia. This book was released on 2007 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A huge hit... Will make you laugh out loud' - The Daily Mail In October 2006 a policeman called PC David Copperfield (pseudonym) received over a million hits to his blog site called Coppersblog. Coppersblog detailed a hilarious but shocking diary of life in a modern British town where teenage yobs terrorise the elderly, drunken couples brawl in front of their children and drug addicted burglars roam free. WASTING POLICE TIME is Copperfield's hilarious and shocking diary of life as a modern British bobby. It's the first book to spill the beans about the way senior police officers waste money while fiddling the crime figures and scrambling to meet bogus Home Office targets. Copperfield's Chief Constable won't like it and neither will the government. But honest taxpayers - sick of being fleeced while criminals rule the streets - will relish every word. Copperfield has been interviewed with his face obscured on BBC TV's Newsnight, Sky News, and this book is currently being used by the Conservative Party's shadow Home Affairs Team as they draw up policing policies for the future.

Author : David Copperfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781906308193
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wasting More Police Time written by David Copperfield and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An update to 'Wasting police time', which was a personal account of a serving police constable, 'Wasting more police time' provides explanations from police officers in England and Wales about how things are for them.

Author : Rosa Brooks
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525557865
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tangled Up in Blue written by Rosa Brooks and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the best nonfiction books of the year by The Washington Post “Tangled Up in Blue is a wonderfully insightful book that provides a lens to critically analyze urban policing and a road map for how our most dispossessed citizens may better relate to those sworn to protect and serve.” —The Washington Post “Remarkable . . . Brooks has produced an engaging page-turner that also outlines many broadly applicable lessons and sensible policy reforms.” —Foreign Affairs Journalist and law professor Rosa Brooks goes beyond the "blue wall of silence" in this radical inside examination of American policing In her forties, with two children, a spouse, a dog, a mortgage, and a full-time job as a tenured law professor at Georgetown University, Rosa Brooks decided to become a cop. A liberal academic and journalist with an enduring interest in law's troubled relationship with violence, Brooks wanted the kind of insider experience that would help her understand how police officers make sense of their world—and whether that world can be changed. In 2015, against the advice of everyone she knew, she applied to become a sworn, armed reserve police officer with the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department. Then as now, police violence was constantly in the news. The Black Lives Matter movement was gaining momentum, protests wracked America's cities, and each day brought more stories of cruel, corrupt cops, police violence, and the racial disparities that mar our criminal justice system. Lines were being drawn, and people were taking sides. But as Brooks made her way through the police academy and began work as a patrol officer in the poorest, most crime-ridden neighborhoods of the nation's capital, she found a reality far more complex than the headlines suggested. In Tangled Up in Blue, Brooks recounts her experiences inside the usually closed world of policing. From street shootings and domestic violence calls to the behind-the-scenes police work during Donald Trump's 2016 presidential inauguration, Brooks presents a revelatory account of what it's like inside the "blue wall of silence." She issues an urgent call for new laws and institutions, and argues that in a nation increasingly divided by race, class, ethnicity, geography, and ideology, a truly transformative approach to policing requires us to move beyond sound bites, slogans, and stereotypes. An explosive and groundbreaking investigation, Tangled Up in Blue complicates matters rather than simplifies them, and gives pause both to those who think police can do no wrong—and those who think they can do no right.

Author : Kenneth Goldsmith
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062416480
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wasting Time on the Internet written by Kenneth Goldsmith and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using clear, readable prose, conceptual artist and poet Kenneth Goldsmith’s manifesto shows how our time on the internet is not really wasted but is quite productive and creative as he puts the experience in its proper theoretical and philosophical context. Kenneth Goldsmith wants you to rethink the internet. Many people feel guilty after spending hours watching cat videos or clicking link after link after link. But Goldsmith sees that “wasted” time differently. Unlike old media, the internet demands active engagement—and it’s actually making us more social, more creative, even more productive. When Goldsmith, a renowned conceptual artist and poet, introduced a class at the University of Pennsylvania called “Wasting Time on the Internet”, he nearly broke the internet. The New Yorker, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, Slate, Vice, Time, CNN, the Telegraph, and many more, ran articles expressing their shock, dismay, and, ultimately, their curiosity. Goldsmith’s ideas struck a nerve, because they are brilliantly subversive—and endlessly shareable. In Wasting Time on the Internet, Goldsmith expands upon his provocative insights, contending that our digital lives are remaking human experience. When we’re “wasting time,” we’re actually creating a culture of collaboration. We’re reading and writing more—and quite differently. And we’re turning concepts of authority and authenticity upside-down. The internet puts us in a state between deep focus and subconscious flow, a state that Goldsmith argues is ideal for creativity. Where that creativity takes us will be one of the stories of the twenty-first century. Wide-ranging, counterintuitive, engrossing, unpredictable—like the internet itself—Wasting Time on the Internet is the manifesto you didn’t know you needed.

Author : Scott Adams
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780836221190
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fugitive from the Cubicle Police written by Scott Adams and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of comic strips from the popular series skewering corporate life features the antics of the deadpan engineer and his clever menagerie of talking animals, including Dogbert, Catbert, and Ratbert

Author : Scott Adams
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780836217582
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Always Postpone Meetings with Time-Wasting Morons written by Scott Adams and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 1994-03-03 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From mountain and valley, from hill and dale, people are asking, "How can I have more Dilbert in my life?" Help is at hand with a blast from the past in Scott Adams' very first compilation of Dilbert comic strips, Always Postpone Meetings with Time-Wasting Morons. It is tempting to compare Adams' work to that of Leonardo da Vinci. The differences are striking. Adams displays good jokes and strong character development, whereas da Vinci has been skating for years on his ability to do shading. Advantage: Adams. And though it may seem boorish to point this out, da Vinci wrote backwards. And he's dead. Advantage: Adams. The choice is clear. Fans looking for a book which will stand the test of time, even beyond the time you spend flipping through it in the bookstore (for which the author receives no royalties whatsoever), should buy this book. Those who are not good comparison shoppers can buy the Mona Lisa.

Author : Detective Miggins
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789012023
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welcome to the Farce written by Detective Miggins and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the Farce is written by a real police officer serving in a real police force. Although names and places have been changed, this is in many ways a true account.

Author : Inspector Gadget
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781906308049
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perverting the Course of Justice written by Inspector Gadget and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime is modern Britain's obsession. Every day brings another horrific news story. How did the country get like this? For the first time ever, a senior policeman - writing under an assumed name - breaks ranks to tell the truth about the collapse of law and order in the UK. With access to statistics about frontline police strength, exclusive inside information and detailed analysis, Inspector Gadget reveals how bad things really are. Controversial and gripping, this sets the news agenda and shocks the nation into action.

Author : John W. Whitehead
Publisher : SelectBooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1590799836
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Government of Wolves written by John W. Whitehead and published by SelectBooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A NATION OF SHEEP WILL BEGET A GOVERNMENT OF WOLVES”–EDWARD R. MURROW America is fast moving into a state of lockdown. Surveillance cameras, drug-sniffing dogs, SWAT team raids, roadside strip searches, blood draws at DUI checkpoints, mosquito drones, tasers, privatized prisons, GPS tracking devices, zero tolerance policies, overcriminalization, free speech zones—these are all symptoms of the emerging police state in America. A GOVERNMENT OF WOLVES paints a chilling portrait of a nation in the final stages of transformation into outright authoritarianism, whose citizens have become little more than a nation of suspects to be cowed, corralled, and controlled. Pulling from his extensive knowledge of constitutional law, history, and futuristic films, John W. Whitehead helps readers navigate this treacherous terrain and provides them with a blueprint for hopefully finding their way back to freedom.

Author : Stevyn Colgan
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783522348
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Did the Policeman Cross the Road? written by Stevyn Colgan and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can lollipops reduce antisocial behaviour? Could wizards prevent street gambling? Do fake bus stops protect pensioners? Can dog shows help reduce murder rates? Stevyn Colgan spent thirty years in the police service—twelve of them as part of the Problem Solving Unit, a special team with an extraordinary brief: to solve problems of crime and disorder that were unresponsive to traditional policing. They could try anything as long as it wasn’t illegal (or immoral), wouldn’t bring the police into disrepute, and didn’t cost very much. The result is this extraordinary collection of innovative and imaginative approaches to crime prevention, showing us that any problem can be solved if we can just identify its underlying roots. In Why Did the Policeman Cross the Road? you’ll learn how bees can prevent elephant stampedes and what tiger farms and sex workers have in common. You’ll read about killer snakes in African cornfields and cholera epidemics in Soho. You’ll come to appreciate the advantages of sticking gum on celebrities’ faces, why the colour of the changing room might decide a football match, and how eating lobsters may help to save their lives. This book is an amusing, insightful and sometimes controversial celebration of good policing and problem solving that reaches beyond law enforcement and into everyday life.