A comprehensive record of the police uniforms worn in Europe from the Seventeenth to the Twenty-first Century. Each country has an overview history of the police force, badges, current ranks and insignia. 212 full colour paintings illustrating uniforms and badges of France, Monaco, Belgium and the Netherlands. Each entry is accompanied by a history and description.

A comprehensive record of the police uniforms worn in Europe from the Seventeenth to the Twenty-first Century. Each country has an overview history of the police force, badges, current ranks and insignia. 124 full colour illustrations within Volume One, illustrating uniforms and badges of the five Scandinavian countries. Each entry is accompanied by a history and description. Volume One includes five European countries, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark.

A comprehensive record of the police uniforms worn in Europe from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first Century. Each country has an overview history of the police force, badges, current ranks and insignia. 166 full colour paintings, within Volume Four, illustrating uniforms and badges of three western European countries: Spain, Portugal, and Gibraltar.

A comprehensive record of the police uniforms worn in Europe from the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century. Each country has an overview history of the police force, badges, current ranks and insignia. 146 full colour paintings within Volume Three, illustrating uniforms and badges of seven western European countries. Each entry is accompanied by a history and description. Volume Three includes seven countries: England, Channel Islands, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Eire, Ulster.

A comprehensive record of the Police Uniforms worn in Europe from 17th Century to the 21st Century. Each country has an overview history of the police force, badges, current ranks and insignia. Volume One includes five European countries, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. Within Volume One are 120 full colour paintings illustrating uniforms and badges.

This book gives an historical overview of all the fifty State Police and Highway Patrol organisations, together with the uniform and badge descriptions and state law enforcement museums where they exist. Includes 218 black & white, 226 coloured illustrations and 81 colour paintings of uniforms and badges.

Let's begin with the basics: violence is an inherent part of policing. The police represent the most direct means by which the state imposes its will on the citizenry. They are armed, trained, and authorized to use force. Like the possibility of arrest, the threat of violence is implicit in every police encounter. Violence, as well as the law, is what they represent. Using media reports alone, the Cato Institute's last annual study listed nearly seven thousand victims of police "misconduct" in the United States. But such stories of police brutality only scratch the surface of a national epidemic. Every year, tens of thousands are framed, blackmailed, beaten, sexually assaulted, or killed by cops. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on civil judgments and settlements annually. Individual lives, families, and communities are destroyed. In this extensively revised and updated edition of his seminal study of policing in the United States, Kristian Williams shows that police brutality isn't an anomaly, but is built into the very meaning of law enforcement in the United States. From antebellum slave patrols to today's unarmed youth being gunned down in the streets, "peace keepers" have always used force to shape behavior, repress dissent, and defend the powerful. Our Enemies in Blue is a well-researched page-turner that both makes historical sense of this legalized social pathology and maps out possible alternatives.