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A view from Iraq leads additions
July 3, 2007 (San Dimas, CA)
Police-Writers.com is a website that lists state and local police officers who
have written books. The website leads off these three additions with
Elmer L. Snows A View from Iraq.
Police Officers also added were Dr.
Gary Cordner and
Jack Eden.
Elmer L. Snow, III is a retired Sergeant from
the
Prince Georges County Police Department
(Maryland). During his career in
law enforcement he was a recipient of the
Police Officer of the Year Award, Chiefs Award for Valor, Police Officer of the
Month Award, and 42 letters of Commendation for Outstanding Performance of Duty.
Following his retirement,
Elmer Snow was employed for five years by the
DuPont Company in Wilmington, Delaware where he provided personal protection for
the Chairman of the Board, the DuPont Board of Directors, and Key Management.
During this time he became involved in
terrorism, counter
terrorism programs, and counter
terrorist driving techniques.
In 2003 he was contacted by
Halliburton Corporation to provide personal protection services during the
reconstruction of Iraq. As a Security Coordinator with KBR, a Halliburton
subsidiary, Snow worked in numerous high risk positions throughout Iraq,
including Mosul, Baghdad, Tikrit, Balad, and culminating at Camp Anaconda. Upon
his return to the United States,
Elmer Snow wrote A View from Iraq.
According to the book
description, A View from Iraq is a must read for soldiers who
have served, curious citizens, families of those who served or are in Iraq, as
well as security practitioners who are constantly searching for
tactics that are used by
terrorists and insurgents. The book details
various individual acts of courage and bravery that were demonstrated by members
of our armed forces, methods of identifying problems that occur, and ways of
reducing the level of threat to an acceptable level. Elmer Snow is also the
author of two fiction books Overkill- A Detectives Story and
Revenge Served Cold.
After beginning his career in
law enforcement as an officer with the Ocean
City Police Department (Maryland), Dr.
Gary Cordner obtained a Ph.D. in social science
from Michigan State University. He taught at Washington State University and the
University of Baltimore before returning to
law enforcement as chief of police of
St. Michaels Police Department (Maryland) in
1984. He remained as the chief of police until 1987 when he joined the faculty
of Eastern Kentucky University. In 1997, Gary Cordner was named the Dean of
Eastern Kentucky Universitys College of
Law Enforcement.
The president of the Academy of
Criminal Justice Sciences, Cordner also has
served as co-editor or co-author of seven policing textbooks and is the editor
of Police Quarterly and a Senior Research Fellow with the Police Executive
Research Forum. Among his books are: Managing Police Organizations (1995);
Managing Police Personnel (1996); Policing Perspectives: An Anthology (1998);
Police Operations: Analysis and Evaluations (1996); Police Administration
(2003); and, Police and Society (2004)
According to the book description
of Police and Society, To adequately explain the complex nature
of police operations in a democracy, the authors have integrated the most
important theoretical foundations, research findings, and contemporary practices
in a comprehensible, yet analytical, manner. Contemporary issues and future
prospects of policing are fully addressed. The text features an emphasis on the
relationship between the police and the community--as well as how this
relationship has evolved over time. The impact of this evolution on current
police practices, especially with respect to community policing and policing in
the post-9/11 era, is explored.
Jack Eden was born in Oklahoma. He received
his masters degree from Emporia State University. After teaching high school
for twenty-three years in Garnett, Kansas, he was Director of Community Revival
Center Christian Academy. He served in
law enforcement for thirteen years with five
years as the Chief of Police of the
Garnett Police Department (Kansas). Jack Eden
is the author of Violence its Causes and Cure.
According to the book description
of Jack Edens Violence its Causes and Cures, Over the years
while teaching in public schools and serving in law enforcement, the author
takes note of an increase in violence. Violence that was increasing not only in
incident but in magnitude. After hearing a number of solutions to the violence,
all much too simplistic, the author tries to first list many of the reasons for
violence in our world today. Then secondly the author lists the only sure cure
for violence.
Police-Writers.com now hosts 611
police officers (representing 264 police
departments) and their 1283 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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