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Jack R. Lundquist, Jr. was
born and raised in the City of San Pablo,
California, a suburb within the San
Francisco Bay Area. His desire to be a
police officer was formulated early in
life. He became a police explorer scout,
and later a reserve police officer with the
City of San Pablo Police Department. At age
twenty-one Jack Lundquist was drafted by
the United States Army, and served as a
Military Policeman at Fort George G. Meade,
Maryland, where he obtained the rank of
Sergeant (E-5). Upon being honorably
discharged, Jack Lundquist returned to the
San Francisco Bay area.
After a brief stint as a Reserve Police Officer he was
hired by the Oakland Police Department. During his tenure he attended the
University of San Francisco, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts Degree. His love for
basic patrol work kept him in a marked police car for two separate periods,
totaling twelve years. The remainder of the time was spent as criminal
investigator, ending with a seven-year period in Vice.
Upon retirement Jack Lundquist moved to the City of
Truckee, California, and took a position as Chief of Security for the Sands
Regency Casino Hotel, in Reno, Nevada. He served two years in that capacity,
when he moved to Las Vegas, Nevada to facilitate his wife's employment.
Once settling in, he accepted a position with the Clark
County Department of Business License as a Special Agent in the Night
Enforcement Unit, specializing in alcoholic beverage control enforcement, a job
requiring considerable undercover work in many of the adult related businesses,
such as; strip clubs, sex clubs, and adult entertainment throughout Clark
County, Nevada.
Jack Lundquist is currently employed in the private sector
as the Director of Compliance for a large night-club entertainment company in
Nevada. Jack Lundquist is the author of BeatCop
and ViceCop. According to the book
description, BeatCop is "a book filled with stories from the career of a
beatCop working the perilous streets of a dodgy city. The author is a retired
Oakland Police Officer, who patrolled the streets for twelve years. His stories
cover the good, the bad, and the oh-shits, as well as the humor experienced by a
BeatCcop working a large city police department."
ViceCop,
the sequel to Beatcop
culminates the twenty-one year career of
"Officer Blondie." Extraordinary attention
was put into both books to ensure each is a
stand alone book, meaning a reader can pick
up either, and upon reading it find there is
a beginning, middle and ending. Yet, both
books in sequence effectively and
chronologically cover the author's entire
career as a police officer working a dodgy
city. ViceCop readers will
experience the most remarkable stories,
including the inner workings of two major
investigations, including a year long
investigation into charitable bingo, and why
six Oakland Housing Authority Officers were
federally indicted and subsequently
convicted of misconduct, assault, theft, and
planting drugs on suspects.
A Complete History of the Oakland Police Department
Phil McArdle was the Oakland Police Departments technical
writer for 20 years and previously wrote a history of the police department that
was published internally. He was the principal editor of Exactly Opposite the
Golden Gate, a history of Berkeley, and his writing as appeared in the Baltimore
Sun, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Berkeley Daily Planet, and numerous other
publications. McArdle and his wife, Karen, collaborated on Fatal Fascination, a
study of police work in the East Bay and elsewhere. The vintage photographs in
this extraordinary compendium were culled primarily from the Oakland Police
Department, the Oakland History Room of the Oakland Public Library, and the
authors personal collection.
According to the book description of Phil McArdle's book,
"The California legislature granted a charter to the new community of Oakland in
1862, and a year later, the town council appointed three peace officers. When it
was a dusty Western town, Oaklands major business was raising cattle to feed
San Franciscans and the gold miners north of Sacramento. Year by year, as
Oakland grew in size and population, the police department grew with it. The
Oakland Police Department pioneered the use of call boxes, police cars, and
other technical innovations. It has served the city well through good times and
bad, wars, fires, and earthquakes. A large, diverse organization serving a
complex multicultural city, the Oakland Police Department today accepts the
challenges of policing in the 21st century."
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