An examination of questionable payments and practices

Kennedy, Tom

Praeger

The Houston Police Force was established by the naming of a city marshal in January 1841. Houston Police Department historian Denny Hair wrote, “As befitted a frontier community, the meeting of justice in Houston was swift and uncompromising. Trials were conducted in an informal manner with little attention paid to formal rules of evidence and legal procedure.” Eventually, conditions changed and law enforcement became more sophisticated. The “Bayou City” population went from 44,633 in 1900 to almost 1 million by 1960. “Houston” was the first word spoken from the moon, thus it became “Space City” and, ultimately, the nation’s fourth-largest city. Its police department weathered decades of mayoral appointment for every officer before state civil service reform in the 1940s. It also met the civil rights years better than most cities and saw dramatic change with the 1982 appointment of Lee Brown as the first African American police chief of a large American city.

Houston Police Department (Images of America)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Arcadia Publishing

Quest: Canada's Search for Arctic Oil

Science & Math

Technology

Reidmore Books

Ultimate: Fundamentals of the Sport

Kalb, Irving

Sports & Outdoors

Revolutionary Pubns

This is an instructional DVD and booklet for pregnant women and their support people. The acupressure techniques outlined in this DVD are easy to use, promote natural birth, and encourage close partner involvement.

Acupressure for Natural Pain Relief in Labour DVD

Betts, Debra

Journal of Chinese Medicine

The Houston Police Force was established by the naming of a city marshal in January 1841. Houston Police Department historian Denny Hair wrote, "As befitted a frontier community, the meeting of justice in Houston was swift and uncompromising. Trials were conducted in an informal manner with little attention paid to formal rules of evidence and legal procedure." Eventually, conditions changed and law enforcement became more sophisticated. The "Bayou City" population went from 44,633 in 1900 to almost 1 million by 1960. "Houston" was the first word spoken from the moon, thus it became "Space City" and, ultimately, the nation's fourth-largest city. Its police department weathered decades of mayoral appointment for every officer before state civil service reform in the 1940s. It also met the civil rights years better than most cities and saw dramatic change with the 1982 appointment of Lee Brown as the first African American police chief of a large American city.

Houston Police Department

History

Americas

Arcadia Publishing Library Editions

Houston Blue offers the first comprehensive history of one of the nation’s largest police forces, the Houston Police Department. Through extensive archival research and more than one hundred interviews with prominent Houston police figures, politicians, news reporters, attorneys, and others, authors Mitchel P. Roth and Tom Kennedy chronicle the development of policing in the Bayou City from its days as a grimy trading post in the 1830s to its current status as the nation’s fourth largest city. Combining the skills of historian, criminologist, and journalist, Roth and Kennedy reconstruct the history of a police force that has been both innovative and controversial.
Readers will be introduced to a colorful and unforgettable cast of police chiefs and officers who have made their mark on the department. Prominent historical figures who have brushed shoulders with Houston’s Finest over the past 175 years are also featured, including Houdini, Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders, O. Henry, former Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, hatchet wielding temperance leader Carrie Nation, the Hilton Siamese Twins, blues musician Leadbelly, oilman Silver Dollar Jim West, and many others.
The Houston Police Department has been at the cutting edge of police innovation. It was one of the first departments in the South to adopt fingerprinting as an identification system and use the polygraph test, and under the leadership of its first African American police chief, Lee Brown, put the theory of neighborhood oriented policing into practice in the 1980s. The force has been embroiled in controversy and high profile criminal cases as well. Among the cases chronicled in the book are the Dean Corll and Dr. John Hill murders; controversial cases involving the department’s crime lab; the killings of Randy Webster and Joe Campos Torres; and the Camp Logan, Texas Southern University, and Moody Park Riots.
Roth and Kennedy reveal that most of modern Houston’s issues and problems are rooted in many of the challenges that faced police officers in the nineteenth century. Anyone who drives in Houston will not be surprised that the city’s reputation for poor drivers was already cemented in the 1860s, when ordinances were passed to protect pedestrians from horse-drawn carriages. Likewise, the department’s efforts to overcome funding and manpower shortages, and political patronage, are a continuing battle that began a century ago. In the end it is a story about the men and women in blue and the role played by the Houston Police Officers Union in creating a modern 21st-century police force from its frontier roots.

Houston Blue: The Story of the Houston Police Department (Volume 8) (North Texas Crime and Criminal Justice Series)

Roth, Mitchel P.

University of North Texas Press

Consider the top image. A plate of chick peas and plain spaghetti, accompanied—we can only assume—by the mournful, haunting wail of a conch. Based on the popular Tumblr, this book features never-before-seen photographs of humanity at its lowest culinary ebb, accompanied by tragicomic stories that will either leave you crying with laughter, or just crying. You'll meet a cast of colorless characters trapped in a kitchen hell of their own devising, witness their struggles to fulfill their recommended five a day, and marvel at how much human misery can be heaped onto a single plate. Fuelled by the author's first-hand experience at the dark heart of miserable food photography, Dimly Lit Meals for One is the culmination of one man's quest to chronicle the exact opposite of food porn. Bigger, sadder, and funnier than ever before, this book serves up bite-sized portions of hilarity and heartbreak alongside some of the most inept food photography ever seen.

Dimly Lit Meals for One: Heartbreaking Tales of Sad Food and Even Sadder Lives

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

John Blake

Humanity is now experiencing a metamorphosis from mental beings to intuitive beings. This book details what the paradigm shift entails, and it provides meditations which awaken and develop intuition in readers.Each chapter narrates compelling and humorous personal stories of events which integrated non-local awareness into the author's daily life. Readers can verify and repeat these awakenings in their own lives. These awakenings include: * Multiplying the power of prayers and affirmations by aligning with intuition * Employing intuition and dreams in dating and relationship * Living in perpetual presence, intuition awareness, and non-duality * Becoming conscious on the path of initiation which leads to nirvana * Awareness of non-local awareness in the work environment * Awareness of pain body attacks and demonic influences in self and others * Awareness of spontaneous alternate states of awareness * Employing past life reviews to obtain insight into one's current lifetime * Awakening awareness of visions, auditions, and knowings Intuition is non-local, in that it applies to co-existing, interconnected, multiple possibilities, which occupy no absolute location in space and no absolute point in time.The author shares his experience awakening various types of non-local awareness in thousands of individuals, along with analysis from a scientific as well as spiritual perspective.Included in this book are meditations which awaken group and solo awareness of Past Life Reviews, Prevision (prophesy), Telepathy, Remote Viewing, Intuitive Counseling, Spiritual Channeling, and After Death Communication (ADC).In group meditations, participants interact with one another while awakened within the types of non-local awareness indicated above.Drawing on his Electrical Engineering background, the author explains for the non-technical reader the quantum physics basis of non-local awareness and miracles; and he details the concept of the quantum soul. Also discussed is scientific research which documents millions of Near Death Experiences (NDE's), and thousands of verified past lifetimes revealed by young children. Terminology of multiple spiritual traditions is drawn upon, including Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, and Theosophy, in outlining the human awakening known as the Unitive State, Nirvana, Ascension, and the 5th Initiation. Detailed examples are given of contemporary awakenings to this state of consciousness, along with details of mystical Catholic saints' awakenings and the correspondence with quantum physics. Outlined also is clairvoyant research into what may be seen on the various planes of awareness which are accessible at Humanity's current stage of evolution, along with Humanity's experience in other planes of awareness after death of the physical body.

INTUITION AWARENESS: Humanity's Metamorphosis from Mental Beings to Intuitive Beings

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Alternative Medicine

Independently published

The Skinny Kid from Braidwood

Historical

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