Police Histories
1. 
Nobody is Protected: How the Border Patrol became the Most Dangerous Police Force in the United States
by:
Reece Jones
4.17 avg rating — 114 ratings 2. 
Texas Ranger: The Epic Life of Frank Hamer, the Man Who Killed Bonnie and Clyde 4.23 avg rating — 875 ratings
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Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers
by:
Doug J. Swanson
3.86 avg rating — 703 ratings 4. 
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Backcountry Lawman: True Stories from a Florida Game Warden
by:
Bob H. Lee
4.03 avg rating — 173 ratings 
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Unreasonable: Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment
by:
Devon W. Carbado
4.36 avg rating — 25 ratings 
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I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad
by:
Baynard Woods
3.89 avg rating — 1,596 ratings 
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Maintain the Right; the Early History of the North West Mounted Police, 1873-1900
by:
Ronald Atkin
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 20. 
America On Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
by:
Elizabeth Hinton
4.22 avg rating — 975 ratings 
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Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights 4.26 avg rating — 333 ratings
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Flic Story: The Implacable Duel Between a Merciless Killer and a Different Kind of Policeman
by:
Roger Borniche
3.88 avg rating — 52 ratings 24. 
Shots Fired: The Misunderstandings, Misconceptions, and Myths about Police Shootings
by:
Joseph Loughlin
4.05 avg rating — 39 ratings 
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Shots on the Bridge: Police Violence and Cover-Up in the Wake of Katrina
by:
Ronnie Greene
3.95 avg rating — 286 ratings 28. 
The Lawmen: United States Marshals and Their Deputies, 1789-1989 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings
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New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police Scandal that Launched the Progressive Era
by:
Daniel Czitrom
3.46 avg rating — 52 ratings 30. 
Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers
by:
Robert M. Utley
3.84 avg rating — 180 ratings 30. 
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces
by:
Radley Balko
4.32 avg rating — 3,972 ratings 32. 
Lone Star Lawmen: The Second Century of the Texas Rangers
by:
Robert M. Utley
3.86 avg rating — 44 ratings 32. 
Red Sky Morning: The Epic True Story of Texas Ranger Company F
by:
Joe Pappalardo
3.29 avg rating — 163 ratings 
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War on the Border: Villa, Pershing, the Texas Rangers, and an American Invasion
by:
Jeff Guinn
4.02 avg rating — 694 ratings 
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Border patrol: With the U.S. Immigration Service on the Mexican boundary, 1910-54 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The High Sheriff of Greene: The True Story of Legendary Lawman L.L. Wyatt 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings
41. 
Klan of Devils: The Murder of a Black Louisiana Deputy Sheriff
by:
Stanley Nelson
3.95 avg rating — 21 ratings 
45. 
Securing the City: Inside America's Best Counterterror Force--The NYPD 3.47 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Revenuers and Moonshiners: Enforcing Federal Liquor Law in the Mountain South, 1865-1900
by:
Wilbur R. Miller
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 
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Gangster Squad: Covert Cops, the Mob, and the Battle for Los Angeles
by:
Paul Lieberman
3.25 avg rating — 1,100 ratings 51. 
Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal 4.05 avg rating — 3,511 ratings
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Policing From Bow Street: Principal Officers, Runners and the Patroles
by:
Peter Kennison
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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They Paid Me for This?: Stories from over Three Decades in Law Enforcement
by:
David Coppage
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 56. 
Unrepentant Sinner: The Autobiography of Colonel Charles Askins
by:
Charles Askins
4.18 avg rating — 60 ratings 56. 
Unsolved: Cold-Case Homicides of Law Enforcement Officers
by:
James A. Bultema
4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings 58. 
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Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves
by:
Arthur T. Burton
3.60 avg rating — 579 ratings 
60. 
We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption
by:
Justin Fenton
4.25 avg rating — 4,773 ratings 
64.
Illegal Tender: Counterfeiting and the Secret Service in Nineteenth-Century America
by:
David R. Johnson
4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings 64. 
Rose City Vice: Portland in the 70's Dirty Cops and Dirty Robbers
by:
Phil Stanford
3.66 avg rating — 58 ratings 66. 
A Cowboy Detective: A True Story of Twenty-two Years with a World-Famous Detective Agency 3.91 avg rating — 444 ratings
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The Peculiar Case of the Electric Constable: A True Tale of Passion, Poison and Pursuit
by:
Carol Baxter
3.55 avg rating — 186 ratings 68. 
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American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper
by:
Daniel Stashower
3.49 avg rating — 4,476 ratings 70. 
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Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
by:
Bryan Burrough
3.98 avg rating — 6,029 ratings 
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Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s
by:
Risa L. Goluboff
4.27 avg rating — 37 ratings 78. 
Policing Greene: A Policeman at the Sunset of the Jim Crow South
by:
Harold McAlister
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings 
80. 
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
by:
Gilbert King
4.40 avg rating — 15,749 ratings 
82. 
Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
by:
Bryan Burrough
3.96 avg rating — 2,328 ratings 83. 
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by:
David Grann
4.14 avg rating — 425,997 ratings 84. 
The Suspect: An Olympic Bombing, the FBI, the Media, and Richard Jewell, the Man Caught in the Middle
by:
Kent Alexander
4.27 avg rating — 1,944 ratings