Product Description: There are good ways of handling the press and bad ways of handling the press. Even the professionals sometimes make mistakes and sometimes those directly influence the cases they're talking about. Solid, practical advice about dealing with the media for the law enforcement professional...read more

This text features hundreds of practice exam questions, special exam watch warnings that identify the most difficult questions to answer, special Command Reference for quick syntax/command look up, and development and review by master MCSDs and MCTs. The interactive CD-ROM includes tests that link to the electronic text of the book.

Product Description: "Good Cop/Bad Cop" offers the first extended review of the influence of the mass media on local and federal law enforcement in the U.S. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, and drawing upon popular characterizations of law enforcement in the movies, the press, television and literature, this book argues that police reform is inextricably linked to the rise and technological development of the mass media...read more

Product Description: When police brutality becomes front-page news, it triggers a sudden, intense interaction between the media, the public, and the police. Regina Lawrence ably demonstrates how these news events provide the raw materials for looking at underlying problems in American society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text features hundreds of practice exam questions, special exam watch warnings that identify the most difficult questions to answer, special Command Reference for quick syntax/command look up, and development and review by master MCSDs and MCTs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)