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

• Police Practices and Civil Rights in New York City (some appendixes omitted; 2000), by United States Commission on Civil Rights (HTML at usccr.gov)
• Coming of Age With Stop and Frisk: Experiences, Perceptions, and Public Safety Implications (New York: Vera Institute of Justice, 2013), by Jennifer Fratello, Andres Rengifo, Jennifer Trone, and Brenda Velazquez (PDF files with commentary at vera.org)

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• 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)

• The Public and the Police (c2008), by Harriet Sergeant (PDF at Civitas)

• 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)

• Crime Prevention Partnerships: Lessons From Practice (2002), ed. by Eric Pelser (PDF files at issafrica.org)

• 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)

• 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)

• A Handbook for Auxiliary Police (Washington: GPO, 1942), by United States Office of Civilian Defense Training Section, contrib. by United States Federal Bureau of Investigation
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at Ball State

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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

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