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Duty, Death
and Crime
July 30, 2007 (San Dimas, CA)
Police-Writers.com is a website that lists state and local police officers who
have written books. The website added three police officers:
Michael P. Tremoglie;
Maria Watson; and
Reuben Greenberg.
Michael P. Tremoglie is a former
Philadelphia Police Department police officer.
Michael P. Tremoglie is currently a staff
writer for The (Philadelphia) Evening Bulletin and a columnist for FrontPage
Magazine. His work has regularly appeared in publications such as the
Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, Human Events, Pittsburgh Tribune
Review and the Lansdale Reporter. He has a BA in accounting and a Masters in
Criminal Justice. He is the Author of A
Sense of Duty.
According to the Philadelphia
Bulletin, A Sense Of Duty does for big city
police training what Stanley Kubrick's Vietnam
classic, "Full Metal Jacket" did for
U. S. Marine boot camp. Tremoglie's attention
to detail and understanding of the psychological hazards circling around his
characters draws its readers into a world fraught with pending disaster, mixed
with the joy of accomplishment, and then hit with the harsh reality of the
eventualities its inhabitants tried so hard to avoid. A Sense Of Duty
deals with clashes between cultures, social status, ideologies, political
parties, races, sexes, along with hopes and dreams.
In 1976,
Maria Watson and her twin sister Margie were
part of the first 100 women hired for patrol duty by the
Philadelphia Police Department. During her
law enforcement career,
Maria Watson worked uniformed patrol,
narcotics, juvenile aid division and sex crimes child abuse unit. She retired
from the
Philadelphia Police Department in 1996. She is
the author of the novel Dead in Fairmont Park.
According to the book description
of Dead in Fairmont Park, Michelle Burns,
Philadelphia Police Lieutenant, like other
female African American lieutenants without a squad to command, was buried
behind a desk in homicide. That all changed when the third body was found in
Fairmount Park's nature trails.
Reuben Greenberg was the African American
Chief of Police of the
Charleston Police Department (South
Carolina). In 1967, he received a BA degree from San
Francisco State University and he has two masters degrees, one in public
administration and the other in city planning, both from the University of
California at Berkeley. He has taught sociology at California State University,
political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and
criminal justice at Florida International
University.
His career in
law enforcement spanned three states before he
arrived in South Carolina in 1982. While in California, he served as the
undersheriff of the San Francisco County Sheriff's Department. A Savannah,
Georgia, he was a major with the city's police department. In Florida, he was
chief of police at Opa-Locka and chief deputy sheriff of Orange County, rising
to deputy director of the Florida Department of
Law Enforcement.
Reuben Greenberg is the author of Let's
Take Back Our Streets!
According to Publishers Weekly,
Greenberg disputes the contention that law-breakers are victims of
circumstance; they commit crimes by choice, he argues, and ought to be
prosecuted to the full extent of the law. He also stresses that the function of
punishment is, indeed, to punish. This is a book of tough talk from a police
chief who firmly believes that we are all accountable for our actions and urges
both police and citizens not to surrender to hopelessness about crime.
Police-Writers.com now hosts 680
police officers (representing 305 police
departments) and their 1455 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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