The Worlds First Swat Team

Author : Leroy Thompson
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1848326041
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World’s First SWAT Team written by Leroy Thompson and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In turbulent Shanghai in the years between the World Wars, the International Settlement was a mercantile powerhouse that faced unrest from Communist labor unions, criminal gangs, spies, political agitators, armed kidnappers and assassins. Adjoining the Settlement were the French Concession and the Chinese city, both hotbeds of intrigue and crime themselves. Called the most sinful in the world, the Settlement relied on its police: the Shanghai Municipal Police, one of the most advanced forces in the world. After an incident in 1926 when the police fired upon demonstrators, which resulted in unrest and strikes, W. E. Fairbairn was charged with forming a specialized unit to deal with riots and armed encounters. The resulting Reserve Unit became the prototype for future SWAT teams, as it developed tactics for using snipers in barricade and hostage incidents, techniques for use of the submachine gun during raids, hostage rescue tactics, aggressive riot-dispersal tactics and various other tactical innovations. Out of the experiences of the unit came many of the techniques later taught by W. E. Fairbairn, E. A. Sykes, Pat O'Neill and others to the Commandos, Rangers, SOE, OSS, 1st Special Service Force and other Second World War elite units. Those same techniques still resonate today with special forces and police tactical units.

Author : Leroy Thompson
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1783034351
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World’s First SWAT Team written by Leroy Thompson and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In turbulent Shanghai in the years between the World Wars, the International Settlement was a mercantile powerhouse that faced unrest from Communist labor unions, criminal gangs, spies, political agitators, armed kidnappers and assassins. Adjoining the Settlement were the French Concession and the Chinese city, both hotbeds of intrigue and crime themselves. Called the most sinful in the world, the Settlement relied on its police: the Shanghai Municipal Police, one of the most advanced forces in the world. After an incident in 1926 when the police fired upon demonstrators, which resulted in unrest and strikes, W. E. Fairbairn was charged with forming a specialized unit to deal with riots and armed encounters. The resulting Reserve Unit became the prototype for future SWAT teams, as it developed tactics for using snipers in barricade and hostage incidents, techniques for use of the submachine gun during raids, hostage rescue tactics, aggressive riot-dispersal tactics and various other tactical innovations. Out of the experiences of the unit came many of the techniques later taught by W. E. Fairbairn, E. A. Sykes, Pat O'Neill and others to the Commandos, Rangers, SOE, OSS, 1st Special Service Force and other Second World War elite units. Those same techniques still resonate today with special forces and police tactical units.

Author : Isabella Jackson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108419682
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shaping Modern Shanghai written by Isabella Jackson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative study of colonialism in China, examining Shanghai's International Settlement as the site of key developments in the Republican period.

Author : Yin Cao
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004344071
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Policemen to Revolutionaries: A Sikh Diaspora in Global Shanghai, 1885-1945 written by Yin Cao and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In From Policemen to Revolutionaries, Yin Cao elaborates the rise and fall of the Sikh community in Shanghai by the turn of the twentieth century.

Author : Tom Greve
Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1627178953
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book SWAT written by Tom Greve and published by Carson-Dellosa Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A SWAT team is called in when criminal emergencies become too dangerous for regular police officers. Although most SWAT team members are police officers, they are trained in the use of powerful firearms and military tactics, and only used in very high-risk situations. The skills, equipment, training, and courage of these individuals are all discussed in this book, as well as how SWAT teams originated and have become one of our biggest defenses against terrorist attacks. This book will allow students to determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.

Author : Radley Balko
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1541700287
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rise of the Warrior Cop written by Radley Balko and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking history of how American police forces have been militarized is now revised and updated. Newly added material brings the story through 2020, including analysis of the Ferguson protests, the Obama and Trump administrations, and the George Floyd protests. The last days of colonialism taught America’s revolutionaries that soldiers in the streets bring conflict and tyranny. As a result, our country has generally worked to keep the military out of law enforcement. But over the last two centuries, America’s cops have increasingly come to resemble ground troops. The consequences have been dire: the home is no longer a place of sanctuary, the Fourth Amendment has been gutted, and police today have been conditioned to see the citizens they serve as enemies. In Rise of the Warrior Cop, Balko shows how politicians’ ill-considered policies and relentless declarations of war against vague enemies like crime, drugs, and terror have blurred the distinction between cop and soldier. His fascinating, frightening narrative that spans from America’s earliest days through today shows how a creeping battlefield mentality has isolated and alienated American police officers and put them on a collision course with the values of a free society.

Author : Anne Forest
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1508144001
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book SWAT Teams written by Anne Forest and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SWAT teams are special groups of police officers called in to handle difficult situations. If there’s a hostage crisis or a riot, a SWAT team is usually on the scene. The heroic people who’ve chosen a career as part of a SWAT team had to go through special training and use special skills in order to do their job. Readers learn about this career through manageable text, eye-catching fact boxes, and a detailed graphic organizer. They also see exciting photographs of SWAT teams hard at work. Real-world examples are also included to get readers interested in this career path.

Author : Diane Carey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 074346771X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book S. W. A. T. written by Diane Carey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official tie-in novel for the August release of Columbia Pictures' major motion picture remake of the popular 1970s series about the Los Angeles Police Department's elite Special Weapons and Tactics unit, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Ferrell, and LL Cool J. Original.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Author : Gangaji
Publisher : Sounds True
ISBN 13 : 1591798884
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You Are That written by Gangaji and published by Sounds True. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of thousands of people have been influenced by Gangaji's teachings. You Are That is a collection of her classic offerings, first shared more than a decade ago and now updated to include both original volumes, a new introduction, rare photographs, and new insights. This exquisite special edition delves into natural inquiries about our existence, including the nature of mind, how to expose the core of suffering, and how to overcome the last obstacle of self-doubt. Eloquent and direct, Gangaji guides practitioners of all backgrounds through an examination into the self that often leads to unexpected glimpses of awakening. "This is a moment of reckoning," she teaches. "Do not take this moment casually or trivially. Recognize that for whatever reason, you are aware of the possibility of realizing the truth of yourself as limitless consciousness—you are that!"