Author: Robert Lee Maril
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Keywords: south, texas, patrol, border, chaos, patrolling
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2006-08-31
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0896725944
ISBN-13: 9780896725942

As the residents of McAllen, Texas, sleep soundly, a small number of agents of the U.S. Border Patrol wait in dark shadows on the northern bank of the Rio Grande. Those few, thinly spread watchers are the first line of defense against a chaotic tide of undocumented workers and determined drug smugglers with only one goal in mind: to cross the river to el Norte. "Patrolling Chaos" is based on extensive ethnographic field work focusing on one station of three hundred Border Patrol agents over a two-year period. Following twelve typical agents, men and women, as they go about their regular ten-ho

Authors:Sgt. John R. Baker, Stephen J. Rivele,
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Keywords: america, dangerous, city, patrolling, story, one, cop, vice
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2011-01-18
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 0312596871
ISBN-13: 9780312596873

9 square miles. 10,000 criminals. 130 cops. A riveting memoir by Baker, California’s most-decorated police officer Compton: the most violent and crime-ridden city in America. What had been a semi-rural suburb of Los Angeles in the 1950s became a battleground for the Black Panthers and Malcolm X Foundation, the home of the Crips and Bloods and the first Hispanic gangs, and the cradle of gangster rap. At the center of it, trying to maintain order was the Compton Police Department, never more than 130-strong, and facing an army of criminals that numbered over 10,000. At any given time, fully on

Authors:Cecilia S. Gal, Cecilia S. Gal, Paul B. Kantor, Brach
Publisher: IOS Press
Keywords: security, web, peace, terrorists, world, wide, nato, controlling, science, problems, terrorism, informatics, patrolling, social, technical, detecting
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2008-05-15
List price: $161.00
ISBN-10: 1586038486
ISBN-13: 9781586038489

This work is intended to be of interest to counter-terrorism experts and professionals, to academic researchers in information systems, computer science, political science and public policy, and to graduate students in these areas.The goal of this book is to highlight several aspects of patrolling the Web that were raised and discussed by experts from different disciplines. The book includes academic studies from related technical fields, namely, computer science and information technology, the strategic point of view as presented by intelligence experts, and finally the practical point of vie