Most officers learn the law as a list of things they can't do. The best officers learn it as an edge.The Lawful Edge is the professional bridge in the American Street Law series the same constitutional framework from Volume 1, taken to the full working depth a patrol officer, detective, or...

Your rights as a citizen, what police officers are sworn to uphold and must thoroughly understand. What can they actually do to you—and what are your rights when it happens? Most people learn what they think they know about their rights from television. The Constitution on the Street is the...

A retired detective. A body by the water. A cold case twenty-five years in the making. Joe McCann was one of the best detectives the Justice, Illinois P.D. ever had — until he wasn’t.

Long before anyone ever heard about “Community Oriented Policing,” law enforcement officers were of a different breed. They didn’t engage in complex “Problem Solving,” they simply identified the individual responsible for the problem and took action, sometimes brutal action, to fix it.