You can't stop murder
Subtitle: truths about policing in Baltimore and beyond
By: by Stephen Tabeling and Stephen Janis ; edited by Alan Z. Forman and Taya M. Graham
Contributors: Janis, Stephen, author; Forman, Alan Z., editor; Graham, Taya M., editor
Publisher: Baltimore True Crime
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Baltimore, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9781491009772
Subjects: Career in law enforcement; Biography; Law enforcement
Description: A murderous vigilante group named Black October guns down drug dealers - and a prominent politician. A psychopath stalks the corridors of city hall en route to a near deadly rendezvous with the mayor. A crazed sniper picks off half a dozen city police officers from the third window of an east Baltimore row home. Violent crimes in one of the country's most violent cities, and at the center of it all a single cop: Former Baltimore city homicide Lieutenant Stephen Tabeling. What he learned during the chaotic decades of 1960s and 70s are truisms about human nature, our propensity for violence, and what we can and cannot do to stop it. Wisdom he is now sharing as a literary epitaph to over six decades in law enforcement by recounting chilling tales of real cases that rocked the city of Baltimore to its core, and changed one man's life forever. Tabeling is joined by award winning investigative reporter Stephen Janis who has covered crime and corruption in Baltimore city for both print and television.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: I never wanted to be a cop. Musings on policing and the law; title: You can't stop murder. The Good Friday massacre; title: What is a crime?. The shooting at City Hall; title: A sickness unto death. My encounter with a sociopath; title: Vengeance is not mine. Black October and the murder of Turk Scott; title: The forever war. The dismantling of the Narcotics Strike Force; title: Speaker for the dead. How to solve a murder without a body; title: To vice is human; to err, police. Gambling and cops on Pennsylvania Avenue; title: Killing isn't easy. The day I shot a man who died; title: The Book of Cop. The plot to kill a commissioner that started with a joke; title: The purpose of this book.