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Book and
Author of the Year Announced
February 4, 2008 (San Dimas, CA)
Police-Writers.com is a website that lists state and local
police officers who have written books.
Police-Writers.com announced the 2008 Book of the Year and 2008 Author of the
Year.
What Every Chief Executive
Should Know: Using Data to Measure Police Performance,
(Looseleaf Law Publications, 2007) by Captain
Jon M. Shane (ret.), was selected as the 2008
Police-Writers.com Book of the Year. In December 1985,
Jon Shane Joined the
Newark Police Department (New Jersey) and was
assigned to the South Police District. During his 20 year
law enforcement career, he worked a variety of
assignments and worked his way through the ranks of detective, sergeant and
lieutenant, eventually reaching the rank of Captain.
Jon Shanes book stood out among the entrants
because it significantly advances management decision making in the field of
law enforcement. The book provides models and
mathematical approaches to management questions like: How many officers do we
need? Are we efficiently using the ones we have? Is there a relationship between
the number of officers we have and our
crime rate? What is the status of our patrol
car fleet? Are citizens satisfied with our work? What is the cost of our special
programs and what are the actual benefits?
One Police-Writers.com judge
noted that
Jon Shanes book took a daunting subject and
broke it down into pieces that anyone could understand and put to use. Not only
did he give simple and easy to understand explanations, he also provides
examples of types of data and how to work with that data to make intelligent
decisions. Plus, he provides a CD with ready-to-use Excel spreadsheets for an
executive to use right away. A second judge noted, Shanes book goes beyond
the use of math to solve management questions in policing. The hidden value in
the work may be that it demonstrates new ways of thinking about crime.
Potentially, it could help put the word analysis back into crime
analysis.
James H. Lilley was selected as the 2008
Police-Writers.com Author of the Year. The author of the year selection was
based in part on writing ability and in part on career and community service.
James H. Lilley began his lifetime as a
United States Marine in 1961. Shortly after
his discharge, he joined the
Howard County Police Department (Maryland),
graduating first in his class. During his career his received numerous honors
such as Medal of Valor, four Bronze Stars, four Unit Citations and the
Governors Citation. James H. Lilley has published six novels, articles in
Police Chief Magazine and authored an
International Association of Chiefs of Police
training key. Moreover, he began studying Martial Arts in the early 1960s and
is a 8th Degree Black Belt in Shorin Ryu Karate; the first American
to achieve this recognition and honor from Sensei Takeshi Miyagi.
James Lilley submitted as an example of his
work The Eyes of the Hunter (PublishAmerica 1997). One of the
Police-Writers.com judges said of James writing, He is a mature writer with
strong plot, character and story development. Another judge said, easy
to read, and it was very good escapism. The writer has some absolutely beautiful
passages wherein he describes a sound or a vista. The sex scenes are pretty
hot, too.
Police-Writers.com now hosts 839
police officers (representing 382 police
departments) and their 1772
law enforcement books in 32 categories, there
are also listings of United States federal
law enforcement employees turned authors,
international
police officers who have written books and
civilian police personnel who have written books.
Contact Information:
Lieutenant Raymond E. Foster,
LAPD (ret.), MPA
editor@police-writers.com
909.599.7530
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