Blue Lives In Jeopardy

Author : Robert Schirn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781949042153
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue Lives in Jeopardy written by Robert Schirn and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major theme in Blue Lives in Jeopardy is the very disturbing trend for law enforcement officers. More and more officers are being systematically targeted for assassination merely because they wear a badge. In some cases, officers are ambushed or taken by surprise with their weapon still in their holster. In chapters three through eight of this book, the victim officers were shot before they could draw their weapon. The most glaring example of an outright assassination was the murder of CHP Officer Thomas Steiner, who was shot by a sixteen-year-old who wanted to impress a street gang he wished to join.Valuable and instructive components of these books are the "Lessons Learned" segments that appear at the end of each chapter. Former LAPD Captain Greg Meyer is one of the nation's foremost experts on police tactics and officer safety, having lectured and provided expert testimony on these topics throughout the country over the years. He has provided his expertise and insights to this book. These reflections can hopefully assist officers in recognizing dangerous situations and enhance officer safety.

Author : Ed McBain
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1471914682
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alice in Jeopardy written by Ed McBain and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superbly gripping plot-twister of a novel from the crime master himself, Ed McBain. 'He's right at the top of the premier league of crime fiction' DAILY MIRROR Alice is a recently widowed young woman living in Florida with her two small children. Utterly devastated by her late husband's death in a boating accident, she is struggling to re-build her life. And as if life can't get any worse, her children are kidnapped. Surrounded by police fighting inter-departmental battles, Alice ultimately has to resort to finding and saving her children herself. ALICE IN JEOPARDY is a truly gripping book, absolutely jam-packed with twists and turns, culminating in a totally unexpected ending.

Author : Alex Trebek
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982157992
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Answer Is . . . written by Alex Trebek and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A RECOMMENDED SUMMER READ BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, TIME, AND NEWSWEEK Longtime Jeopardy! host and television icon Alex Trebek reflects on his life and career. Since debuting as the host of Jeopardy! in 1984, Alex Trebek has been something like a family member to millions of television viewers, bringing entertainment and education into their homes five nights a week. Last year, he made the stunning announcement that he had been diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. What followed was an incredible outpouring of love and kindness. Social media was flooded with messages of support, and the Jeopardy! studio received boxes of cards and letters offering guidance, encouragement, and prayers. For over three decades, Trebek had resisted countless appeals to write a book about his life. Yet he was moved so much by all the goodwill, he felt compelled to finally share his story. “I want people to know a little more about the person they have been cheering on for the past year,” he writes in The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life. The book combines illuminating personal anecdotes with Trebek’s thoughts on a range of topics, including marriage, parenthood, education, success, spirituality, and philanthropy. Trebek also addresses the questions he gets asked most often by Jeopardy! fans, such as what prompted him to shave his signature mustache, his insights on legendary players like Ken Jennings and James Holzhauer, and his opinion of Will Ferrell’s Saturday Night Live impersonation. The book uses a novel structure inspired by Jeopardy!, with each chapter title in the form of a question, and features dozens of never-before-seen photos that candidly capture Trebek over the years. This wise, charming, and inspiring book is further evidence why Trebek has long been considered one of the most beloved and respected figures in entertainment.

Author : Stephen Baker
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547519435
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Final Jeopardy written by Stephen Baker and published by HMH. This book was released on 2011-02-27 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “charming and terrifying” story of IBM’s breakthrough in artificial intelligence, from the Business Week technology writer and author of The Numerati (Publishers Weekly, starred review). For centuries, people have dreamed of creating a machine that thinks like a human. Scientists have made progress: computers can now beat chess grandmasters and help prevent terrorist attacks. Yet we still await a machine that exhibits the rich complexity of human thought—one that doesn’t just crunch numbers, or take us to a relevant web page, but understands and communicates with us. With the creation of Watson, IBM’s Jeopardy!-playing computer, we are one step closer to that goal. In Final Jeopardy, Stephen Baker traces the arc of Watson’s “life,” from its birth in the IBM labs to its big night on the podium. We meet Hollywood moguls and Jeopardy! masters, genius computer programmers and ambitious scientists, including Watson’s eccentric creator, David Ferrucci. We see how Watson’s breakthroughs and the future of artificial intelligence could transform medicine, law, marketing, and even science itself, as machines process huge amounts of data at lightning speed, answer our questions, and possibly come up with new hypotheses. As fast and fun as the game itself, Final Jeopardy shows how smart machines will fit into our world—and how they’ll disrupt it. “The place to go if you’re really interested in this version of the quest for creating Artificial Intelligence.” —The Seattle Times “Like Tracy Kidder’s Soul of a New Machine, Baker’s book finds us at the dawn of a singularity. It’s an excellent case study, and does good double duty as a Philip K. Dick scenario, too.” —Kirkus Reviews “Like a cross between Born Yesterday and 2001: A Space Odyssey, Baker’s narrative is both . . . an entertaining romp through the field of artificial intelligence—and a sobering glimpse of things to come.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

Author : Charles R. Whitlock
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 031228800X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Police Heroes written by Charles R. Whitlock and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-11-23 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers meet police officers from all over the country who take their oath seriously, and when confronted with life-threatening circumstances, have acted courageously. This book is filled with riveting stories about America's finest, a moving tribute to unsung heroes. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Steve Cooley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781978317086
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book UTS | Blue Lives Matter written by Steve Cooley and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blue Lives Matter is a book that explores the line-of-duty deaths suffered by the law enforcement "blue" family. This book examines the deaths of eight police officers and one police canine in Los Angeles County. The chapters portray the fallen officers and the canine as true heroes who each made the ultimate sacrifice in service to their community. The cases include the murder of two officers solved over 40 years later; an officer murdered in front of his young son; two officers kidnapped and taken to an onion field where one officer is executed; an undercover officer murdered during a multi-million dollar drug transaction; an off-duty officer murdered by two gang members while riding his bicycle; and a cop-killer who fled to Mexico to avoid prosecution.Co-authors Steve Cooley and Bob Schirn discuss each case in detail. Each chapter discusses the incident that cost the officer his life. The court proceedings are reviewed, including victim impact testimony of the effect of the officer's death on family members and fellow officers. A Lessons Learned segment in each chapter is designed to increase officer safety and awareness of dangerous situations.Steve Cooley is a career prosecutor who served three full terms as the District Attorney of Los Angeles County. He was a reserve police officer for LAPD. He is uniquely positioned to discuss his involvement in each case and eminently qualified to provide perspectives and opinions on each case.

Author : United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1046 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Awards of the Second Division, National Railroad Adjustment Board, with an Appendix ... written by United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 7, 9-11, 14-19 include interpretations 1-34.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 1
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death and Disability Benefits for Policemen and Firemen written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 1 and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J.C. Yuille
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400944349
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Police Selection and Training written by J.C. Yuille and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Police Officer During the past twenty years the tasks required of police officers have expanded and changed with dramatic rapidi ty. The tradi tional roles of the police had been those of law enforcement and the maintenance of public order. As a consequence police officers were typically large-bodied males, selected for their physical abilities and trained to accept orders and enforce the law. Over the past two decades, however, the industrialized nations have placed a variety of new demands on police officers. To traditional law enforcement and public order tasks have been added social work, mental health duties, and cORllluni ty relations work. For example, domestic disputes, violence between husbands and wives, lovers, relatives, etc. , have increased in frequency and severity (or at least there has been a dramatic increase in reporting the occurence of domestic violence). Our societies have no formal system to deal with domestic disputes and the responsibility to do so, in most countries, has fallen to the police. In fact, in some areas as many as 607. of calls for service to the police are related to domestic disputes (see the chapter in this text by Dutton). As a result the police officer has had to become a skilled social worker, able to intervene with sensi ti vi ty in domestic situations. Alternatively, in the case of West Germany, the officer has had to learn to work co-operatively with social workers (see the chapter by Steinhilper).

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York written by and published by . This book was released on 1999-10 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: