A history of the forces of law and order in the United States highlights individual heroes and villains, reformers, events, and locations from 1945 to 2012.

A comprehensive history of the American police.

The only new history of the police forces in the U.S. since 1945.

From its beginnings in eighteenth-century London, this is the history of the largest urban police departments in the United States and a social portrait of Amer

From the Roaring Twenties to the 1970s detectives reigned supreme in police departments across the country. In this tightly woven slice of true crime reportage,