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"A revealing book about how government, law enforcement, and bureaucratic interests are seizing our property, our children, our savings, and our fundamental American rights-and how to fight back. Liberty and justice for all is the bedrock of American democracy, but has America betrayed our founders' vision for the nation? In When They Come For You, New York Times bestselling author David Kirby exposes federal, state, and local violations of basic...
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"Reveals how the Supreme Court allows the perpetuation of racist policing by presuming that suspects, especially people of color, are guilty ... [and] how the Supreme Court enabled racist policing and sanctioned law enforcement excesses. The fact that police are nine times more likely to kill Black men than other Americans is no accident; it is the result of an elaborate body of doctrines that allow the police and courts to presume that suspects are...
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John W. Whitehead charts America's transition from a society governed by "we the people" to a police state governed by the strong arm of the law. In such an environment, the law becomes yet another tool to oppress the people. As a constitutional attorney of national prominence, and as president of The Rutherford Institute, an international civil liberties organization, Whitehead has been at the forefront of the fight for civil liberties in this country....
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Stranger things novels volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
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Christmas, Hawkins, 1984. All Chief Jim Hopper wants is to enjoy a quiet first Christmas with Eleven, but his adopted daughter has other plans. Over Hopper's protests, she pulls a cardboard box marked “New York” out of the basement-and the tough questions begin. Why did Hopper leave Hawkins all those years ago? What does “Vietnam” mean? And why has he never talked about New York? Although he'd rather face a horde of demogorgons than talk about...
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Report / 106th Congress 2d session Senate volume 106-470
Report / 107th Congress 2d session Senate volume 107-176
Report / 107th Congress 2d session Senate volume 107-176
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8) The moonpool
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Cam Richter novels volume 3
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When the murdered body of a private detective is found to be contaminated with radioactive matter, an ex-cop conducts a personal investigation that reveals dangerous security problems at a nuclear power plant and a high-scale environmental disaster in the making.
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Report / 114th Congress 2d session House of Representatives volume 114-626
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[2016]
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"An original and consequential argument about race, crime, and the law today, Americans are debating our criminal justice system with new urgency. Mass incarceration and aggressive police tactics--and their impact on people of color--are feeding outrage and a consensus that something must be done. But what if we only know half the story? In Locking Up Our Own, the Yale legal scholar and former public defender James Forman Jr. weighs the tragic role...
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"Author paints a portrait of an evolving American police state as police authority expands into extensions of the military, and government's intrusions undermine basic freedoms guaranteed to American citizens under the Constitution, turning Americans into enemy combatants who are spied upon, raided, manhandled, silenced, locked up, shot at, and denied due process of the law"--
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In this incisive and insightful book, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano peels back the legal veneer and shows how politicians, judges, prosecutors, and bureaucrats are trampling the U.S. Constitution in the name of law and order and fighting terrorism. Napolitano reveals how they: • silence the First Amendment • shoot holes in the Second • break some laws to enforce others • entrap citizens • steal private property • seize evidence without warrant...
15) The Coalition Provisional Authority's experience with public security in Iraq: lessons identified
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Special report volume 137
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[2005]
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16) The next Batman
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2021.
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"Giant, sprawling future Gotham City is under martial law, protected and regulated by a private security force led by the infamous Peacekeepers. Their mandate is to maintain the safety of the citizens of Gotham, regardless of any Constitutional rights, and to hunt down, incarcerate, or kill all masked vigilantes, villains, and criminals in the city limits. It's a dangerous and violent look at a possible future Gotham City and the heroes and villains...
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2021.
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"Giant, sprawling future Gotham City is under martial law, protected and regulated by a private security force led by the infamous Peacekeepers. Their mandate is to maintain the safety of the citizens of Gotham, regardless of any Constitutional rights, and to hunt down, incarcerate, or kill all masked vigilantes, villains, and criminals in the city limits. It's a dangerous and violent look at a possible future Gotham City and the heroes and villains...
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Rept. / 107th Congress 1st session House of Representatives volume 107-206
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2001
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20) Smoke abatement: a study of the police power as embodied in laws, ordinances and court decisions
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1924.
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