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Problem-oriented policing

Here are entered works on an approach to policing that emphasizes the patterns underlying incidents, as compared with isolated responses to individual incidents.

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• Police

• Policing, Problem-oriented
• POP (Problem-oriented policing)
• Problem-solving policing

• How Terrorist Groups End: Lessons for Countering Al Qa'ida (2008), by Seth G. Jones and Martin C. Libicki (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Man Hunters (New York: J. H. Sears and Co., c1926), by Melville Davisson Post, illust. by William D. I. Arnold (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Le Crime de la Rue des Hirondelles (l'Affaire Van Calck à Bruxelles): Étude de Police Criminelle (in French; Paris: L. Frank, 1909), by Louis Frank
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• From the Kennebec to California: Reminiscences of a California Pioneer, by Henry Hiram Ellis (PDF at LOC)

• The Mistress of Bonaventure (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., n.d.), by Harold Bindloss (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Zone Policeman 88: A Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and its Workers, by Harry A. Franck (Gutenberg text)

• Report of the Duffus Commission of Inquiry into the Breakdown of Law and Order, and Police Brutality in Grenada (1975), by Duffus Commission of Inquiry into the Breakdown of Law & Order, and Police Brutality in Grenada (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• India, The "Enron Project" in Maharashtra: Protests Suppressed in the Name of Development (1997), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department (2015), by United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division (PDF at justice.gov)

• The Third Degree: A Detailed and Appalling Exposé of Police Brutality (Garden City, NY: Garden City Pub. Co., c1930), by Emanuel Henry Lavine (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fighting Police Abuse: A Community Action Manual (1997), by American Civil Liberties Union (HTML with commentary at aclu.org)

• Cultures and Crimes: Policing in Four Nations (c2005), by Norman Dennis and George Erdos (PDF at Civitas)
• Zero Tolerance: Policing a Free Society (enlarged and revised second edition; c1997), ed. by Norman Dennis, contrib. by William J. Bratton, William Griffiths, Ray Mallon, John Orr, and Charles Pollard (PDF at Civitas)

• The Moonstone: A Dramatic Story, in Three Acts, by Wilkie Collins (HTML at github.io)

• An English Murder (c1951), by Cyril Hare (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Suicide Excepted (book originally published 1939), by Cyril Hare (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Autobiography of an English Detective, by "Waters" (2 volumes; London: J. Maxwell and Co., 1863), by William Russell
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes; page images at HathiTrust
• The Mystery of the Downs (New York and London: J. Lane; Toronto: S. B. Gundy, 1918), by John R. Watson and Arthur J. Rees (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Recollections of a Detective Police-Officer, by "Waters" (first series; London: J. and C. Brown and Co., 1856), by William Russell (multiple formats at Google)
• Recollections of a Detective Police-Officer, by "Waters" (second series; London: W. Kent and Co., 1859), by William Russell (multiple formats at Google)
• The Ponson Case (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1937), by Freeman Wills Crofts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Secret of Chimneys (c1925), by Agatha Christie (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Moonstone (novel), by Wilkie Collins
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania

• About the Murder of a Startled Lady: A Thatcher Colt Detective Mystery (c1935), by Anthony Abbot (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Ambulance Made Two Trips (originally published in Astounding Science Fiction, April 1960), by Murray Leinster, illust. by John Schoenherr (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Partners of the Night (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1916), by Leroy Scott, illust. by Dalton Stevens (multiple formats at Indiana)

• Police and Public (second revised edition), by S. Fowler Wright (HTML at sfw.org.uk)

• A Manual of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure for Police (1931), by Ernst W. Puttkammer (PDF files at Northwestern)

• Effective Policing for 21st-Century Israel (in English and Hebrew; c2014), by Jessica M. Saunders, Steven W. Popper, Andrew R. Morral, Robert C. Davis, Claude Berrebi, Kristin Leuschner, Shira Efron, Boaz Segalovitz, and Kevin Jack Riley (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Beyond Collusion: The U.K. Security Forces and the Murder of Patrick Finucane (New York: Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, c2003), by Fiona Doherty, contrib. by Margaret L. Satterthwaite (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• The Police Chief (issues online from 2003) (partial serial archives)
• The Illustrated Police News (partial serial archives)

• Revisiting "Who Is Guarding the Guardians?": A Report on Police Practices and Civil Rights in America (2000), by United States Commission on Civil Rights
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at usccr.gov
• Who Is Guarding the Guardians? A Report on Police Practices (1981), by United States Commission on Civil Rights (page images at HathiTrust)
• USA, The World is Watching: Mass Violations by U.S. Police of Black Lives Matter Protesters' Rights (2020), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnestyusa.org)

• World of Walls: The Structure, Roles and Effectiveness of Separation Barriers (Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), by Said Saddiki (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Community Policing: Issues and Practices Around the World (Washington: National Institute of Justice, 1988), by Jerome H. Skolnick and David H. Bayley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bucholz and the Detectives, by Allan Pinkerton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Burglar's Fate and the Detectives, by Allan Pinkerton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Clendenen's Detective Manual: How to Become a Successful Detective (c1922), by Rufus H. Clendenen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Criminal Reminiscences and Detective Sketches, by Allan Pinkerton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Detectives of Europe and America: or, Life in the Secret Service (Hartford: J. B. Burr, 1879), ed. by George S. McWatters (page images at Lehigh)
• The Gypsies and the Detectives (New York: G. W. Dillingham co., c1879), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives; Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives (New York: G. W. Carleton and Co.; London: S. Low, Son, and Co., 1879), by Allan Pinkerton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives; Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives (New York: G. W. Dillingham, 1887), by Allan Pinkerton
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Model Town and the Detectives; Bryon as a Detective (with The Hard Life of the Detective; New York: G. W. Carleton and Co., 1876), by Allan Pinkerton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Professional Thieves and the Detective: Containing Numerous Detective Sketches Collected From Private Records (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., 1900), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Man Hunters (New York: J. H. Sears and Co., c1926), by Melville Davisson Post, illust. by William D. I. Arnold (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Two Evil Isms, Pinkertonism and Anarchism: By a Cowboy Detective Who Knows, As He Spent Twenty-Two Years in the Inner Circle of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency (Chicago: C. A. Siringo, c1915), by Charles A. Siringo (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chicago Police Investigations: Three Reports (aka Police in America, a 1971 compilation of reports from 1898-1912) (PDF files at Northwestern)

• Police Code of Silence in Times of Change (Cham et al.: Springer Open, c2022), by Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Jon Maskaly, Ahmet Kule, and M. R. Haberfeld (PDF and Epub with commentary at SpringerLink)

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