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Massachusetts and Michigan
July 5, 2007 (San Dimas, CA)
Police-Writers.com is a website that lists state and local police officers who
have written books. The website added two police officers from
Massachusetts and one from
Michigan.
Ray Rubino has devoted the majority of his
fifty-five years to his country and native city, Lawrence, Massachusetts. He
attended the
Massachusetts State Police Academy and earned
an associates degree in
law enforcement from Northern Essex Community
College. A former Marine and Viet Nam veteran, he proudly served twenty-eight
years as a member of the
Lawrence Police Department.
Ray Rubino is the author of
Police Work It's Not All Coffee and Donuts: A Read for
Police Officers and Those Who Dare to Learn What Makes Them Tick and Ticked Off.
According to the book description,
Ray Rubinos book is a journey through the
mind and emotions of a civilian who becomes a police officer, and explores the
metamorphosis from an energetic rookie to an apathetic veteran. Join him as he
takes the absurd academic and physical tests; takes a tour of the police station
and his city; rides in a cruiser on his first day, and experiences the rigors of
the police academy. Prepare for the unexpected realities, and not a trendy
batch of horror stories. It is not the expected confrontations with criminals,
but the surprising reception by the public, the twisted coverage of the media,
the crippling political influences within the department and the disappointing
leniency of the justice system that will rip the fighting spirit from the heart
of a police officer.
In 1986,
Michael Conti joined the
Massachusetts State Police. During his career
he has worked in a variety of assignments, including patrol,
SWAT, special security details and undercover
assignments. He has been involved as a professional trainer since 1991 and holds
numerous instructor certifications in various use of force disciplines.
In January 2000,
Michael Conti was tasked by then Superintendent
of the
Massachusetts State Police to organize, staff,
and train the first full-time Firearms Training Unit. During the creation of
the unit,
Michael Conti developed a firearms training
program specifically geared to preparing police officers for the realities of
the lethal force encounter. This successful program, dubbed The New Paradigm of
Police Firearms Training, has received nation-wide attention and been profiled
by the
Law Enforcement Training Network (LETN).
In addition to his work for the
Massachusetts State Police,
Michael Conti has written two books, In
the Line of Fire: A Working Cops Guide to Pistolcraft (1997), and
Beyond Pepper Spray: The Complete Guide to Chemical Agents, Delivery Systems,
and Protective Masks (2002). He has also had more than 100 articles
published in various local and national publications
Brian Willingham is a police officer with the
Flint Police Department (Michigan). In
addition to being former U.S. Army Sergeant, husband and father of three, Brian
Willingham is an accomplished public speaker and the author of Soul of a
Black Cop.
According to Howard Zinn,
Professor Emeritus, Boston University, Brian
Willinghams extraordinary day-by-day account of his life as a cop
reminds us that behind at least one of those forbidding police badges is someone
with compassion and a profound understanding of the human condition. Have you
ever wondered what it would feel like to sit beside a policeman in his cruiser
and follow him through the day? As we read Willinghams carefully crafted
memoir, we are brought close to the scenes he describes: the beaten women, the
desperate shoplifters, the crack victims, the raped children, the mentally
disturbed. But there are moments which save him and us from despair: the smile
of a child reminds him that "children are born happy. The world makes them sad."
Willingham sees beyond the cruelties of everyday life to the deeper sickness of
a society that doesn't realize its own addiction to war is reproduced in the
violence on its city streets. He writes gracefully, with a generous spirit.
Police-Writers.com now hosts 617
police officers (representing 268 police
departments) and their 1321 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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