Covers badges, badge back attachments, badge manufacturer's hallmarks, model kits, die-cast cars, call boxes, restraints, license plates, night sticks, books and paper items, reproduction badges, determining value.

Volume II is a 9 by 12 inch coffee table style book features 144 all-color pages and a color dust jacket. This continuation of Badges of America¿s Finest Vol. I, first published in 2008, includes hundreds more unique and never before published badges.

New York City, one of the world's premier urban centers, is also home to the world's most famous and storied municipal law enforcement service: the NYPD. Policing in New York is as old as the city itself, although much has changed since the first Dutch rattle watch patrolled streets in the 1620s. Technological improvements, advancing professional standards, and historical moments like the 1898 consolidation of New York City and the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, have each profoundly changed the way New York City police officers do their jobs. Still, as New York City Police emphasizes, certain elements of the job remain true through the decades and centuries. Being a police officer in New York City has always involved a certain amount of danger, sacrifice, and public coordination.

This book, revised and updated, is a catalogue of American police motorcycles from the earliest days of use to today, with chapters covering the decades chronologically. From the early days of machines with no front brakes, 1913 Harley-Davidson VLs, rows of Indian Police specials lined up to leave the factory, armoured ones with machine-guns fitted to fight the gangs of Al Capone, the introduction of women police motorcycle riders and their machines for the first time, and much more.

Established in 2007 by Marc Fischer, and featured in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, Public Collectors encourages collectors of material culture--the kind that most museums won't exhibit--to 'open' their collections to the public. Extending the popular website of the same name, this book presents a wide array of collections--some featured on the website, most newly assembled for publication--interspersed with commentary and essays exploring the problems and politics of collecting materials that may lack conventional monetary or cultural value.