Police Shootings

Adam Plantinga, author of the acclaimed 400 Things Cops Know and a 17-year veteran sergeant with the San Francisco Police Department, gives an inside view of the police officer's job, from handling evidence and conducting interrogations to coping with danger, violence, and death. Not hesitating to confront controversial issues, Plantinga presents the police officer's views on police shootings, racial profiling, and relationships between police and the community.

On a rainy winter night, James Bowden Jr. left his mother’s house in Roxbury after a visit. As he guided his Buick out of his parking spot, an unmarked police car suddenly blocked his path. Two undercover officers sprang out, running toward his car. Shots were fired, and Bowden slumped over the wheel. Moments later, he was pronounced dead on arrival at a nearby hospital.

DCI Harry Grimm has a sneaking suspicion the bleak Yorkshire Dales are growing on him. Though shadows from his big-city past still loom, he’s finding his place among the quirky townsfolk and their eccentric eating habits. But his gruesome crime scene expertise takes center stage when a successful visiting author is found dead. Investigating the cantankerous writer’s entourage, Grimm lines up too many suspects with motives for murder. But with the evidence not adding up and the press piling on relentless pressure, the determined policeman could end up facing his own final chapter.

It started as a day like any other for Alex Mercer. Then he heard the news. Something that only happens in other places is happening in his hometown. Just a few miles away at his daughter's middle school, a shooter is on the loose. Alex does what every other parent in town does - he races to the school to find out if his loved ones are safe. His world falls apart around him, and he can't turn to his best friend because they're both dealing with scathing terror. As the motive behind the shooting comes to light, secrets and betrayals spiral out of control.

In 2015, The Washington Post launched an unprecedented effort to account for every fatal shooting by an officer of the law. Their study has motivated the FBI to action, and changed the way we think of those who serve and protect. After a police officer shot and killed a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, the media began to pay greater attention to deadly interactions between black men and the law. But when reporters tried to get to the bottom of some basic questions. they came up blank.

When a massacre at an elite private high school leaves 17 dead and a city reeling with horror, Philadelphia assistant district attorney Jessica Black will stop at nothing to find justice for the victims. But doing so will require facing an adversary even more terrifying than the teenage shooter.

Jubal Dark has been the Sheriff of Francine County, Texas for 20 years, but Dark's enemy, Texas Ranger Buck Nevins, has convinced a Houston homicide detective to run against him. Dark's failure to solve a two-year-old rape and murder, coupled with his approaching 60th birthday, have led many voters to decide that Jubal should be replaced.

In 2012, nineteen-year-old Leon Ford was shot five times by a Pittsburgh police officer as he was racially profiled during a case of mistaken identity. When he woke up in the hospital, he was faced with two life-changing realities: he was a new father, and he was paralyzed from the waist down. Now, in this memoir and manifesto, Leon illustrates how this harrowing experience has inspired a deep reckoning with the issues his community is facing.

On the evening of July 7, 2016, protesters gathered in cities across the nation after police shot two black men, Philando Castile and Alton Sterling. As officers patrolled a march in Dallas, a young man stepped out of an SUV wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying a high-powered rifle. He killed five officers and wounded 11 others. Thompson’s minute-by-minute account includes intimate portrayals of the negotiator, a surgeon who operated on the fallen officers, a mother of four shot down in the street, and the SWAT officers tasked with stopping the gunman.

Twelve-year-old Nella Sabatini's life is changing too soon, too fast. Her best friend, Clem, doesn't seem concerned; she's busy figuring out the best way to spend the "leap second" - an extra second about to be added to the world's official clock. The only person who might understand how Nella feels is Angela, but the two of them have gone from being "secret sisters" to not talking at all. Then Angela's idolized big brother makes a terrible, fatal mistake, one that tears apart their tight-knit community and plunges his family into a whirlwind of harsh publicity and judgment.

Drei schöne Frauen, ein exklusives Fotoshooting, eine Leiche. Kurz vor der Wahl der neuen Meißner Weinkönigin wird eine der Kandidatinnen ermordet. Patricia Strathmann, Winzertochter aus der Stadt an der Elbe, liegt tot im idyllischen Proschwitzer Weinberg. Vergiftete Trauben beförderten sie ins Jenseits, ihre zwei Rivalinnen überleben. Schnell steht fest: Beim Kampf um die goldene Weinkrone waren Neid, Betrug und verletzte Gefühle im Spiel.

"Fragen Sie nicht, wer einen Grund hatte, Renate Bergmann zu töten. Fragen Sie lieber, wer keinen hatte." Kommissar Mark Winter aus Dresden wird zur Leiche einer Hotelbesitzerin auf dem Meißner Burgberg gerufen. Spontan bietet Polizeihauptmeister Stier ihm seine Hilfe an. Der jagt sonst Kleinkriminelle, kennt Meißen aber wie seine Westentasche. Auch die Tote ist keine Unbekannte für ihn.Schon nach wenigen Stunden wird klar - es könnte jeder in Meißen gewesen sein. Die knallharte Geschäftsfrau ging zu Lebzeiten selbst über Leichen.

Himmelherrgottsakrament! - Noch ein Giftmord! Was ist nur los in der kleinen, beschaulichen Nachbargemeinde? Wurde der betuchte Autohausbesitzer aus Wiesent tatsächlich mit seinem eigenen Honig ermordet? Wie Hinterdobler es hasst, dieses goldgelbe, klebrige Zeug! Als wäre es erst gestern gewesen, spürt er noch heute diesen bohrenden Schmerz, der ihn als Zehnjähriger durchfuhr, als sein kariöser Zahn damit in Berührung kam.

Neuer Bayernkrimi. Eine Leich'! - Und die ausgerechnet im Gelände des Weinbaumuseums im beschaulichen Winzerort Bach an der Donau! Wer hat die junge Frau, die dort tot unter Blauburgunder- und Silvanerreben aufgefunden wird, zu Tode gewürgt und sich nicht einmal die Mühe gemacht, sie zu verstecken? Und warum, zum Teufel, hat jeder der Verdächtigen offensichtlich ein wasserdichtes Alibi? Als hätte Hauptkommissar Hinterdobler nicht schon genug zu tun, genau dies herauszufinden, macht ihm Exfrau Rosi zusätzlich wegen der gemeinsamen Tochter Franzi Schwierigkeiten.

Ein Feriendorf, zwei Tote, drei ungleiche Ermittler, die nicht unbedingt zusammenarbeiten. Lösen sie den Fall? In St. Peter-Ording, dem beliebten Urlaubsort an der Nordsee, wird eines Morgens mitten in der Saison ein Toter am Strand gefunden. Niemand scheint ein Motiv zu haben, den Leiter der Schutzstation Wattenmeer Michael Schwertfeger, der sehr zurückgezogen gelebt hat, zu erschlagen. Kommissarin Charlotte Wiesinger aus Hamburg verstärkt das Team vor Ort, das nicht zuletzt auch aus dem schrulligen Hausmeister Torge Trulsen des Feriendorfes Weiße Düne besteht.

Ein Rüscherl, eine Wildsau und zwei Tote... Der dritte Fall für Hauptkommissar Toni !Hinterdobler". Ein bayerischer Provinzkrimi. Berta und Fanny, zwei befreundete Bewohnerinnen der noblen Seniorenresidenz im Wörther Schloss, treffen sich jeden Mittwochnachmittag Punkt fünfzehn Uhr mit Otto, einem rüstigen Rentner und ebenfalls Bewohner des Heims, zum Kaffeeklatsch. Diesmal aber bricht Otto tot am Tisch zusammen.