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May begins with New York and Texas
May 1, 2007 (San Dimas, CA) Police-Writers.com is a website
dedicated to listing state and local police officers who have authored
books. The first three writers added to the
website in May 2007 come from New York and Texas.
Paul B. Weston had a progressively successful
career in the
New York Police Department on a "fast track"
promotion examination system pioneered by New York Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia.
When a new list of successful applicants for
police officer was published, the Mayor hired
the top two hundred, then the commission set the date for the next sergeant's
examination to allow this group just enough seniority to qualify for the test.
In turn, the top group of sergeants became eligible for the lieutenant's test,
and likewise the captain's examination. It was a tough program as seniority
could earn up to twenty points on the possible score of 200 and the "fast track"
candidates had less than one full point of seniority.
Paul B. Weston placed on the top of each list
and became a captain in twelve years and two months; far ahead of the more
common 18 to 20 years. From the jump start, he moved through the appointed
ranks to Deputy Inspector, Inspector, and Deputy Chief Inspector. The last two
promotions were made by Police Commissioner Stephen P. Kennedy for good work in
the traffic division
After retirement from the
NYPD,
Paul Weston joined the Police Science faculty
at California State College, Sacramento.
Paul Weston played a large role in developing
the universitys program to a full-fledged Division of
Criminal Justice. During his career as a
practitioner and academic, Paul Weston wrote at least twelve books on
law enforcement and
criminal justice. His titles include,
The Police Traffic Control Function; Criminal Investigation: Basic Perspectives;
Case Studies of Drug Abuse and Criminal Behavior; The Handbook of Handgunning;
Combat Shooting for Police; The Administration of Justice; The Detection of
Murder; Supervision in the Administration of Justice; and, Criminal Evidence for
Police.
Marcus Fleck was a deputy sheriff for the
Harris County Sheriffs Office (Texas) for six
years. His book, Legitimacy by Force, tells the story of the
events leading up to his arrest and conviction for the attempted murder shooting
of his neighbor, Glen Baker.
David McElligott was a senior investigator for
the
New York State Police. According to the
New York State Police, the special prosecutor
investigating the Troop C evidence tampering scandal recently warned two
New York State Police supervisors that they
could face disciplinary action for their roles. The two,
David McElligott and Karl Chandler, then
retired. They supervised three investigators who admitted faking evidence.
David McElligott co-authored Good Cop/Bad
Cop: A True Story of Murder and Mayhem. According to the Publishers
Weekly, Two days before Christmas in 1989, Tony Harris, his wife, Dodie, and
their children, Shelby and Marc, were murdered in their home in Ithaca, N.Y.
This upper-middle-class family was killed by Michael Kinge, a black ex-convict
who used and then had his mother use credit cards stolen from the Harris house.
McElligott of the state police largely supervised the police work, although he
was suspicious of fingerprint evidence adduced by investigator David Harding to
prove that Kinge's mother was present during the slayings. The author,
carefully document the unraveling of Harding's career as he confessed to
falsifying evidence to win a number of prosecutions, including that of Mrs.
Kinge, and advance his career.
Police-Writers.com now hosts 512
police officers (representing 215 police
departments) and their 1089 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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