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Angles on Corrections
March 30, 2007 (San Dimas, CA) Police-Writers.com, a
website dedicated to listing state and local police officers who have authored
books, added three writers who give different
perspectives on the corrections system; one is a cop who is an expert in
conducting investigations in prisons; one is a cop who went to prison; and, the
third wrote a thriller were the offenders skip the prison experience.
William Bell comes from a family whose
involvement with
law enforcement dates back to the Civil War.
His own education and career spans more than thirty years. Greatly influenced by
his father, a retired Police Inspector, he began with the
Dearborn Police Department (Michigan) where his
responsibilities included work in road patrol, SWAT, undercover narcotics, and
pattern crime. For nearly twenty years the author has been employed by the
Colorado Department of Corrections, where he ultimately gained his expertise
with the Criminal Investigation Division. He is noted for taking the
investigation of prison crime into the streets. He reflects is practical as
well as academic excellence in his book, Practical Criminal Investigations
in Correctional Facilities.
Lines Crossed is the true story of
Alex Richardson, a
Lake County Sheriffs Department (Indiana) a
narcotics detective who was ultimately sentenced to federal prison for taking a
bribe from a drug dealer. His book, Lines Crossed: The True Story Of An
Undercover Cop, describes the activities of the County drug task force;
and, he also reveals his gambling habit, and the corruption that takes place
while working narcotics.
Alex Richardson grew up in Gary, Indiana. He
left at the age of 18, joining the Army where he was a
military policeman. He graduated Airborne
School becoming a paratrooper, then finished his enlistment by serving in a
special operations unit at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina. After his
military duties he served as a patrolman on the
Lake County, Indiana, Sheriffs Department before serving over two years as an
undercover detective on the Lake County Drug Task Force.
Mark Osterman, a
Detroit Police Department police officer wrote
two crime thrillers: Happiness is a Green Light and
Justifiable Homicide. According to the book description from
Justifiable Homicide, In this sad aftermath, Jack began his secret war on
crime. He joined the
Detroit Police Department and rose through the
ranks to become a detective. However, Jack's after-hours activities included a
different method for reducing crime statistics. This one-man crusade served as
judge, jury and executioner.
Police-Writers.com now hosts 429 police officers
(representing 189 police departments) and their 908 books in six 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.
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