Contract On A Cop

Detective Bobby Marino is back with his elite squad of detectives. In this twisting thriller his team is involved with the DEA in a raid on a major heroin kingpin and the mob family that supplies his organization. Millions in drug monies are stolen during the raid and the drug kingpin seeks revenge. Cops, DEA agents, informants, drug dealers and users are all being viciously killed and Marino is next on the list. When his family comes under attack, he can only trust his closest friends for help. Arrested and disgraced for trying to protect himself, he has no choice but to fight back. And when the mob gets after him, he turns to one of their own, an old friend since childhood, who tries to help him out but only succeeds in drawing more fuel to the fire. Marino finds himself a hunted man with a bounty on his head. It's a move that the bad guys just don't make against a cop, unless they've been pushed to the edge, and that's just what Marino did. Now there's a contract on a cop.

Police union contracts and statewide Law Enforcement Officer's Bill of Rights laws have created a system of protections for police officers that amount to an alternate justice system, creating significant legal and structural barriers to accountability, transparency, and fairness. Of at least 4,024 people killed by police since 2013, only 85 of these cases have led to an officer being charged with a crime. Only 6 cases have led to convictions - fewer than 0.2% of known police killings. Data from some of America's largest police departments show that officers who commit misconduct rarely face administrative consequences, either. It is not surprising that police officers are rarely, if ever, held responsible for their behavior, as the combination of provisions in police union contracts and Law Enforcement Officer's Bill of Rights constitute de facto immunity from liability. Part I of our report will detail our analysis, conducted in collaboration with legal scholars, lawyers, and activists from around the country. Our findings demonstrate that police officers have access to an alternate justice system that allows them to act with impunity, one that is at odds with justice and simply unacceptable. Part II will present model contract language to equip citizens to directly influence the contract negotiation process with specific language to create a fairer police union contract.

Written by a former policeman and bestselling author, Under Contract reveals Smith's experiences while posing as a contract killer. It exposes the shocking truth behind cases of ordinary citizens paying for murder . . . such as the grandmother who wanted her son-in-law killed . . . or the housewife who offered to pay Smith on the installment plan to kill her husband! Fine.

The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and unacknowledged "contract" has shaped a system of global European domination: how it brings into existence "whites" and "non-whites," full persons and sub-persons, how it influences white moral theory and moral psychology; and how this system is imposed on non-whites through ideological conditioning and violence. The Racial Contract argues that the society we live in is a continuing white supremacist state. As this 25th anniversary edition—featuring a foreword by Tommy Shelbie and a new preface by the author—makes clear, the still-urgent The Racial Contract continues to inspire, provoke, and influence thinking about the intersection of the racist underpinnings of political philosophy.