Narcotics Enforcement

[mike1981]

Look for a book called "What Cops Know" on Amazon. It is a great read.

Never mid, I did it for you. :D

http://www.amazon.com/What-Cops-Know.../dp/0671750402

I picked that up at Barnes and Noble the other day, good read.

[Group9]

German book stores are just different to USA book stores. We also have true crime books, but most are writen by victims of a crime, the dirtbags who does it and all want the same, a lot of money from the readers.

It is hard to find a book store that has good books in English, most are novels. Very low true crime books. I order a lot by amazon.de (.com), so I don't have to pay the very high s/h rates from the USA to Europe (sometimes $ 25 and more).

But, and this is the reason to open this thread, I'm unable to have a few inside and sometimes books are so expensive and so very bad. So I want to get the opinions of other LEO about good narcotic fight books.

@ suzanne, I wait the three weeks!!!! And, I know to enforce humor, do you know the dry german cynism humor we have over here????

I'm sorry, I missed that part about Germany. Okay, then

Desperados Elaine Shannon

The Underground Empire James Mills

Deep Cover Mike Levine

The Cocaine Wars by Hugo Sabogal, Paul Eddy, Sara Walden

Kings of Cocaine by Guy Gugliotta, Jeff Leen

Pizza Connection, Lawyers, Money, Drugs, Mafia Shana Alexander

Inside the DEA Tom Clifford

Heavy Traffic : 30 Years of Headlines and Major Ops From the Case Files of the DEA by David Robbins

Without A Badge: Undercover in the World's Deadliest Criminal Organization
by Jerry Speziale

Drug Lord: The Life & Death of a Mexican Kingpin - A True Story by Terrence E. Poppa

The Man Who Made It Snow: By the American Mastermind Inside the Medellin Caretel by MAX MERMELSTEIN

BLOW: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All by Bruce Porter

Doctor Dealer: The Rise and Fall of an All-American Boy and His Multimillion-Dollar Cocaine Empire by Mark Bowden

Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden


That's a good start. A lot of them are dated, but still interesting historically, and still very accurate as to the methods of operation.

[patchcop]

Desperados Elaine Shannon

The Cocaine Wars by Hugo Sabogal, Paul Eddy, Sara Walden

Kings of Cocaine by Guy Gugliotta, Jeff Leen

Pizza Connection, Lawyers, Money, Drugs, Mafia Shana Alexander

The Man Who Made It Snow: By the American Mastermind Inside the Medellin Caretel by MAX MERMELSTEIN
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Thank you for the book list. The books above I read a few years ago in German, they are very good. Esp. the Miami story about the corupt cops in The Cocaine Wars.

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[SSA1811]

patchcop: To briefly go off-topic, does your Department or Narcotics Enforcement Team ever interact or coordinate with Europol and/or Interpol? What are your thoughts about their overall effectiveness?


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[patchcop]

patchcop: To briefly go off-topic, does your Department or Narcotics Enforcement Team ever interact or coordinate with Europol and/or Interpol? What are your thoughts about their overall effectiveness?


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Persoally I don't work with Euro- or Interpol. It would be too long to write down my thoughts about them. If you're really Interest in my dumb thoughts, PM me. You're welcome.

With my team we fight and bust the drug scene in out PCT. Small things, sometimes a good greater catch. Nothing to write a novel about;)

[patchcop]

Look for a book called "What Cops Know" on Amazon. It is a great read.

Thanks Norm, I read it the last weeks. A great read, also that the book is "a few" years old. Sometimes I spotted myself.
Any other good reads, esp. with the drug buster background?

[Tylegn]

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