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"In the United States, racial profiling affects thousands of Americans every day. Both individuals and institutions - such as law enforcement agencies, government bodies, banks, and schools - routinely use race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of an offense. Profiling is linked to racial prejudices and stereotypes rooted in the nation's legacy of slavery as well as in twenty-first century immigration and terrorism." -- from book's jacket....
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop, a passionate call to America to finally reckon with race and start the journey to redemption. The night of May 25, 2020 changed America. George Floyd, a 43-year-old Black man, was killed during an arrest in Minneapolis when a white cop suffocated him. The video of that night's events went viral, sparking the largest protests in the nation's history and the sort of social unrest we...
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Maggie Davis comes to town determined to find the bad guy lock him up and move on just as shes done so many times before. No one suspects the diminutive seller of feminine fripperies to be a U.S. Marshal in disguise. But thats what she is. So when the intriguingly handsome stage driver turns out to be her number one suspect shes surprised at the turmoil she feels. Can Cal McConnell the sweet caring man shes come to know be a scoundrel?
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This Contract Management Manual has been developed to assist cities and counties in the administration of a Law Enforcement Assistance Fund (LEAF) Project. The policies and procedures contained herein are in addition to, and consistent with, the rules and regulations and guidelines developed and issued by the Office of Transportation Safety. The State LEAF Administrator and the concerned party will resolve any differences between local policy and...
7) Inside
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Released from prison after serving fourteen years for a murder he didn't commit, Virgil Skinner, to keep his family safe, agrees to help the California Department of Corrections stop a gang from taking over the state's most notorious supermax with the help of Chief Deputy Warden Peyton Adams.
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After review of the C.L.E.A.R. report, it became apparent that a number of inaccurate statements related to the Parole Board were included. The Parole Board performed a systematic review of the data presented in the C.L.E.A.R. report, and an independent analysis is presented in this document.
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"A ground-breaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America: in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history. In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An award-winning investigative journalist, he used his real name; there was no meaningful background check. Four months later, his employment came to an abrupt...
15) Judgment Call
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When Joanna Brady's daughter, Jenny, stumbles across the body of her high school principal, Debra Highsmith, in the desert, the Cochise County sheriff's personal and professional worlds collide, forcing her to tread the difficult middle ground between being an officer of the law and a mother. While investigating murders has always meant discovering unpleasant facts and disquieting truths, the experienced Joanna isn't prepared for the knowledge she's...
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"A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer-- the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade-- from Michelle McNamara, the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case. For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding...
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