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Pierce R. Brooks began his police career in 1949, as a beat cop in Los Angeles. Twenty years later he retired as a captain with the reputation as one of the best
detectives in the United States. After the Los Angeles Police Department, in
May 1970, Chief Brooks served as the Director of Public Safety in Lakewood, Colorado.
Brooks gained famed as the detective in Joseph Wambaugh’s book, “The Onion Field,” a true story of
a brutal police killing. An acknowledged expert on police survival, he has conducted
many seminars and lectures through the country. Brooks firm belief that most
police killings could have been avoided motivated him to write, “…officer down, code three.”
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