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42) Be mine
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"A personal message written in human blood is left for crime reporter Molly Wilson at the murder scene of her boyfriend, San Francisco Homicide Inspector Cliff Hooper. The horrific death of a revered cop shocks the San Francisco Police Department's Homicide Detail. Shaken to the core, his grieving fellow detectives go flat out to find his killer under the glare of the city's new media."--Container.
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Automatic gunfire hammered police arriving at Northlake Bank in response to a silent alarm on the morning of October 27, 1967. The shootout killed two officers and injured two others. One of the robbers lay wounded as the other two fled in a getaway car. The ensuing manhunt tore across state lines and thrust the quiet Illinois community into a national debate over rehabilitated prisonerstwo of the men were fresh out of jail for bank robbery. Local...
44) Nikita
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A cop-killer junkie is forced by the government to become an undercover assassin or face a life in prison.
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48 hrs.: Nolte is a rough-edged cop after two vicious cop-killers. He can't do it without the help of smooth and dapper Murphy, who is serving time for a half-million dollar robbery. Both pursue their separate goals--Nolte wants the villains and Murphy wants his money and some much-needed female companionship.
Another 48 hrs: The cop and the con return-- the con is released from the pen and finds out there's a price on his head. He teams up with...
49) Cry me a river
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Beginning with his stunning first novel, A Short History of a Small Place, and in all the books that have followed, T. R. Pearson has created an ever-enlarging fictional realm where laugh-out-loud humor is interwoven with some of mankind's darkest impulses. The result is that seamless tapestry found in all true literature, the human comedy. With his unmistakable colloquial idiom, his hilariously eccentric characters, and the enduring resonance of...
50) Breaking blue
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Breaking Blue is what Sheriff Tony Bamonte did when he disregarded the blue code that forbids investigating a fellow police officer. While preparing his master's thesis, Bamonte discovered new evidence linking a local officer to the 1935 murder of town marshal George Conniff. This is a gripping story of cop against cop and a collision between two generations of lawmen.
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Criterion collection volume 753
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Examines the roadside murder of a Dallas police officer, and the subsequent arrest and conviction of drifter Randall Adams, who was given a death sentence despite overwhelming evidence of his innocence.
52) RoboCop 3
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"When the ruthless corporation that runs Motor City begins kicking families out of their homes to clear space for a profitable new real estate project, RoboCop joins forces with a renegade band of freedom fighters to save them. But RoboCop must face some deadly foes, including a lethally efficient android and a dangerous gang of thugs. RoboCop's latest arsenal of high-tech weaponry only somewhat evens the battlefield, as this lone superhero takes...
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Assigned to investigate the murder of a plainclothes detective outside a bookie joint, homicide lieutenant Mike Conovan (Johnson) must also prove the cop was not on the take after $1,000 is found in his pocket. Following a slim set of clues, Conovan is beaten, shot and double-crossed as he sets out to catch a killer and clear the detective's name. A departure from MGM's usual glamor and glitz, Scene of the Crime was part of production head Dore Schary's...
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A tough slum girl faces a crisis of the heart when the boy she loves is accused of shooting her cop father. Her brother stalks the accused slayer and finally shoots him down in the street. Includes a souvenir booklet featuring rare photographs and essays by Cari Beauchamp.
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