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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)
• Handbuch für Untersuchungsrichter als System der Kriminalistik (fifth revised edition, 2 volumes in German; Munich: J. Schweitzer, 1908), by Hans Gross
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: 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

• The Ace of Spades (New York: W. Morrow and Co., 1961), by Dell Shannon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Case Pending (New York: Harper and Bros., c1960), by Dell Shannon (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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 Police Journal (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)

• On the Front Lines: Police Stress and Family Well-Being: Hearing Before the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session (Washington: GPO, 1991), by United States House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families (page images at HathiTrust)

• Beyond Control: A Mutual Respect Approach to Protest Crowd-Police Relations (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2010), by Vern Neufeld Redekop and Shirley Paré (HTML at bloomsburyacademic.com; registration optional)

• Report of the National School Shield Task Force (with appendixes; Washington: National Rifle Association, 2013), by National School Shield Task Force (PDF at nraschoolshield.com)

• A Texas Cowboy: or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony (with bibliograpical study; New York: W. Sloane Associates, c1950), by Charles A. Siringo, contrib. by J. Frank Dobie, illust. by Tom Lea (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Cowboy Detective: A True Story of Twenty-Two Years With a World-Famous Detective Agency (Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co., 1912), by Charles A. Siringo
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Lone Star Cowboy: Being Fifty Years Experience in the Saddle as Cowboy, Detective and New Mexico Ranger, on Every Cow Trail in the Wooly Old West (1919), by Charles A. Siringo
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Texas Cow Boy: or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony (Chicago: M. Umbdenstock and Co., 1885), by Charles A. Siringo
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Texas Cow Boy: or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony (Chicago: Siringo and Dobson, 1886), by Charles A. Siringo
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Department of Justice Report Regarding the Criminal Investigation Into the Shooting Death of Michael Brown by Ferguson, Missouri Police Officer Darren Wilson (2015), by United States Department of Justice (PDF at fdlp.gov)
• State of Missouri vs. Darren Wilson: Grand Jury (24 volumes of transcribed grand jury testimony, with related documents; 2014), by Missouri (PDF files with commentary at cnn.com)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.