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

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

• Report of the Duffus Commission of Inquiry into the Breakdown of Law and Order, and Police Brutality in Grenada (1975), by and Police Brutality in Grenada Duffus Commission of Inquiry into the Breakdown of Law and Order (HTML at thegrenadarevolutiononline.com)

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

• 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)

• The Expressman and the Detective, by Allan Pinkerton (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Thirty Years a Detective: A Thorough and Comprehensive Exposé of Criminal Practices of All Grades and Classes (New York: G. W. Carleton, 1884), by Allan Pinkerton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Police Body Armor Standards and Testing (2 volumes, OTA-ISC-534 and OTA-ISC-535; 1992), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I (main report): PDF at Georgetown
  • Volume II (Appendixes): PDF at fas.org

• Anderson Crow, Detective (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1920), by George Barr McCutcheon, illust. by John T. McCutcheon
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Blood Sugar, by Jim DeFilippi (PDF at jimdefilippi.com)

• Oscar the Detective: or, Dudie Dunne, the Exquisite Detective, by Old Sleuth (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Citizens Defending America: From Colonial Times to the Age of Terrorism (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2005), by Martin Alan Greenberg (page images at Pitt)

• The Politics of Community Policing: Rearranging the Power to Punish (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1999), by William Lyons (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Detective and the Somnambulist; The Murderer and the Fortune-Teller (Toronto: Belford Bros., 1877), by Allan Pinkerton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Knots Untied: or, Ways and By-Ways in the Hidden Life of American Detectives (Hartford: Burr and Hyde, 1871), by George S. McWatters (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Somnambulist and the Detective; The Murderer and the Fortune Teller (New York: G. W. Dillingham, c1903), by Allan Pinkerton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Spiritualists and the Detectives (New York: G. W. Dillingham, 1889), by Allan Pinkerton
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Adventures of a United States Detective: A Series of Interesting Sketches Illustrating the Operations of the Whisky Ring in Their Evasions of the Law and Its Penalties (Philadelphia: Souder, 1876), by James J. Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)

• Darkie Dan, the Colored Detective: or, The Mississippi Mystery (Beadle's New York Dime Library v11 #134; 1881), by Prentiss Ingraham (page images at niu.edu)

• The Border War on Drugs (1987), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• 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)

• Shielded from Justice: Police Brutality and Accountability in the United States, by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML at hrw.org)

• Criminal Careers and "Career Criminals" (2 volumes; Washington: National Academies Press, 1986), ed. by Alfred Blumstein
  • Volume I: page images with commentary at NAP
  • Volume II: page images with commentary at NAP

• Ensuring the Effective Use of DNA Evidence to Solve Rape Cases Nationwide: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, First Session, December 15, 2009 (Washington: GPO, 2010), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Police Administration in Boston (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1934), by Leonard Vance Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)

• Police Practices and Civil Rights in New York City (some appendixes omitted; 2000), by United States Commission on Civil Rights (HTML at usccr.gov)

• 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)
• Deadly Force: Police Use of Lethal Force in the United States (2015), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnestyusa.org)

• Policing and Homicide, 1976-98: Justifiable Homicide by Police, Police Officers Murdered by Felons (Washington: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2001), by Jodi M. Brown and Patrick A. Langan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Justice for Salcido (Los Angeles: Civil Rights Congress of Los Angeles, 1948), by S. Guy Endore, contrib. by Carey McWilliams, illust. by Edmond Kohn (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)
• 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)

• Police Use of Deadly Force: Hearing Before the Subcommitee on Criminal Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, May 8, 1987 (Washington: GPO, 1989), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Issues in Team Policing: A Review of the Literature (Washington: National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, 1977), by William G. Gay, Jane P. Woodward, H. Talmadge Day, James P. O'Neil, and Carl J. Tucker (page images at HathiTrust)

• Patrol Regulations for the County of Rowan: Printed by Order of the County Court, at August Term, Anno Domini 1825 (Salisbury, NC: P. White, 1825), by Rowan County (N.C.)
  • HTML with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Responding to Hate Crimes and Bias-Motivated Incidents on College/University Campuses (revised edition, 2003), by United States Community Relations Service
  • HTML at justice.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Responding to Hate Crimes and Bias-Motivated Incidents on College/University Campuses (2000), by United States Community Relations Service (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• 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

• The Dain Curse (c1929), by Dashiell Hammett (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Red Harvest (c1929), by Dashiell Hammett (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• 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)

• Police Brutality: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, March 20 and April 17, 1991 (Washington: GPO, 1992), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• 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)

• 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)

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